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rsv@Genesis:1:1 @ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

rsv@Genesis:1:2 @ The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

rsv@Genesis:1:3 @ And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

rsv@Genesis:1:4 @ And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

rsv@Genesis:1:5 @ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

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

rsv@Genesis:1:7 @ And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.

rsv@Genesis:1:8 @ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

rsv@Genesis:1:9 @ And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.

rsv@Genesis:1:10 @ God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

rsv@Genesis:1:11 @ And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so.

rsv@Genesis:1:12 @ The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

rsv@Genesis:1:13 @ And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

rsv@Genesis:1:14 @ And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

rsv@Genesis:1:15 @ and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.

rsv@Genesis:1:16 @ And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.

rsv@Genesis:1:17 @ And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

rsv@Genesis:1:18 @ to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

rsv@Genesis:1:19 @ And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

rsv@Genesis:1:20 @ And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."

rsv@Genesis:1:21 @ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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

rsv@Genesis:1:23 @ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

rsv@Genesis:1:24 @ And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.

rsv@Genesis:1:25 @ And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

rsv@Genesis:1:26 @ Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

rsv@Genesis:1:27 @ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

rsv@Genesis:1:28 @ And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

rsv@Genesis:1:29 @ And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.

rsv@Genesis:1:30 @ And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

rsv@Genesis:1:31 @ And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

rsv@Genesis:2:1 @ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

rsv@Genesis:2:2 @ And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

rsv@Genesis:2:3 @ So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.

rsv@Genesis:2:4 @ These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

rsv@Genesis:2:5 @ when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

rsv@Genesis:2:6 @ but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground--

rsv@Genesis:2:7 @ then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

rsv@Genesis:2:8 @ And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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

rsv@Genesis:2:10 @ A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

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:2:12 @ and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

rsv@Genesis:2:13 @ The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush.

rsv@Genesis:2:14 @ And the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

rsv@Genesis:2:15 @ The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.

rsv@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

rsv@Genesis:2:17 @ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."

rsv@Genesis:2:18 @ Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."

rsv@Genesis:2:19 @ So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

rsv@Genesis:2:20 @ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.

rsv@Genesis:2:21 @ So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh;

rsv@Genesis:2:22 @ and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

rsv@Genesis:2:23 @ Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

rsv@Genesis:2:24 @ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

rsv@Genesis:2:25 @ And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.

rsv@Genesis:3:1 @ Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, `You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?"

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

rsv@Genesis:3:3 @ but God said, `You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

rsv@Genesis:3:4 @ But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die.

rsv@Genesis:3:5 @ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

rsv@Genesis:3:6 @ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.

rsv@Genesis:3:7 @ Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.

rsv@Genesis:3:8 @ And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

rsv@Genesis:3:9 @ But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

rsv@Genesis:3:10 @ And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

rsv@Genesis:3:11 @ He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

rsv@Genesis:3:12 @ The man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."

rsv@Genesis:3:13 @ Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate."

rsv@Genesis:3:14 @ The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

rsv@Genesis:3:15 @ I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

rsv@Genesis:3:16 @ To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."

rsv@Genesis:3:17 @ And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, `You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

rsv@Genesis:3:18 @ thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

rsv@Genesis:3:19 @ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

rsv@Genesis:3:20 @ The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

rsv@Genesis:3:21 @ And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

rsv@Genesis:3:22 @ Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"--

rsv@Genesis:3:23 @ therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

rsv@Genesis:3:24 @ He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

rsv@Genesis:4:1 @ Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."

rsv@Genesis:4:2 @ And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

rsv@Genesis:4:3 @ In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,

rsv@Genesis:4:4 @ and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,

rsv@Genesis:4:5 @ but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

rsv@Genesis:4:6 @ The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?

rsv@Genesis:4:7 @ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it."

rsv@Genesis:4:8 @ Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go out to the field." And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

rsv@Genesis:4:9 @ Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

rsv@Genesis:4:10 @ And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

rsv@Genesis:4:11 @ And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

rsv@Genesis:4:12 @ When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

rsv@Genesis:4:13 @ Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

rsv@Genesis:4:14 @ Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me."

rsv@Genesis:4:15 @ Then the LORD said to him, "Not so! If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him.

rsv@Genesis:4:16 @ Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

rsv@Genesis:4:17 @ Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

rsv@Genesis:4:18 @ To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Me-hu'ja-el, and Me-hu'ja-el the father of Me-thu'sha-el, and Me-thu'sha-el the father of Lamech.

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:4:21 @ His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

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:4:24 @ If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

rsv@Genesis:4:25 @ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."

rsv@Genesis:4:26 @ To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:5:1 @ This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

rsv@Genesis:5:2 @ Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

rsv@Genesis:5:3 @ When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

rsv@Genesis:5:4 @ The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years; and he had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:5 @ Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:5:6 @ When Seth had lived a hundred and five years, he became the father of Enosh.

rsv@Genesis:5:7 @ Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:8 @ Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:5:9 @ When Enosh had lived ninety years, he became the father of Kenan.

rsv@Genesis:5:10 @ Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:11 @ Thus all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:5:12 @ When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Ma-hal'alel.

rsv@Genesis:5:13 @ Kenan lived after the birth of Ma-hal'alel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:14 @ Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:5:15 @ When Ma-hal'alel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.

rsv@Genesis:5:16 @ Ma-hal'alel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:17 @ Thus all the days of Ma-hal'alel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.

rsv@Genesis:5:18 @ When Jared had lived a hundred and sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.

rsv@Genesis:5:19 @ Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:5:20 @ Thus all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.

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:5:23 @ Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

rsv@Genesis:5:24 @ Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

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:5:28 @ When Lamech had lived a hundred and eighty-two years, he became the father of a son,

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:5:31 @ Thus all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.

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

rsv@Genesis:6:1 @ When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

rsv@Genesis:6:2 @ the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

rsv@Genesis:6:3 @ Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."

rsv@Genesis:6:4 @ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

rsv@Genesis:6:5 @ The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

rsv@Genesis:6:6 @ And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

rsv@Genesis:6:7 @ So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

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:6:11 @ Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

rsv@Genesis:6:12 @ And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

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:6:14 @ Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

rsv@Genesis:6:15 @ This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

rsv@Genesis:6:16 @ Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.

rsv@Genesis:6:17 @ For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.

rsv@Genesis:6:18 @ But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

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

rsv@Genesis:6:20 @ Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.

rsv@Genesis:6:21 @ Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them."

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:7:2 @ Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;

rsv@Genesis:7:3 @ and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.

rsv@Genesis:7:4 @ For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."

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:7:8 @ Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

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

rsv@Genesis:7:10 @ And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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:7:12 @ And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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:7:14 @ they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.

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:7:16 @ And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

rsv@Genesis:7:17 @ The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

rsv@Genesis:7:18 @ The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

rsv@Genesis:7:19 @ And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;

rsv@Genesis:7:20 @ the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

rsv@Genesis:7:21 @ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man;

rsv@Genesis:7:22 @ everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

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:7:24 @ And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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:8:2 @ the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

rsv@Genesis:8:3 @ and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;

rsv@Genesis:8:4 @ and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ar'arat.

rsv@Genesis:8:5 @ And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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

rsv@Genesis:8:7 @ and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

rsv@Genesis:8:8 @ Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;

rsv@Genesis:8:9 @ but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

rsv@Genesis:8:10 @ He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

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:8:12 @ Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

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:8:14 @ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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

rsv@Genesis:8:16 @ "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

rsv@Genesis:8:17 @ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."

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

rsv@Genesis:8:19 @ And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.

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:8:21 @ And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

rsv@Genesis:8:22 @ While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."

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:9:2 @ The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

rsv@Genesis:9:3 @ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

rsv@Genesis:9:4 @ Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

rsv@Genesis:9:5 @ For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.

rsv@Genesis:9:6 @ Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.

rsv@Genesis:9:7 @ And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."

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

rsv@Genesis:9:9 @ "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,

rsv@Genesis:9:10 @ and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.

rsv@Genesis:9:11 @ I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

rsv@Genesis:9:12 @ And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

rsv@Genesis:9:13 @ I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

rsv@Genesis:9:14 @ When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

rsv@Genesis:9:15 @ I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

rsv@Genesis:9:16 @ When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."

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:9:21 @ and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.

rsv@Genesis:9:22 @ And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

rsv@Genesis:9:23 @ Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

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

rsv@Genesis:9:25 @ he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."

rsv@Genesis:9:26 @ He also said, "Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave.

rsv@Genesis:9:27 @ God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."

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:10:2 @ The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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:10:5 @ From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the sons of Japheth in their lands, each with his own language, by their families, in their nations.

rsv@Genesis:10:6 @ The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

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:10:8 @ Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

rsv@Genesis:10:9 @ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."

rsv@Genesis:10:10 @ The beginning of his kingdom was Ba'bel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.

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:10:13 @ Egypt became the father of Ludim, An'amim, Leha'bim, Naph-tu'him,

rsv@Genesis:10:14 @ Pathru'sim, Caslu'him (whence came the Philistines), and Caph'torim.

rsv@Genesis:10:15 @ Canaan became the father of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

rsv@Genesis:10:16 @ and the Jeb'usites, the Amorites, the Gir'gashites,

rsv@Genesis:10:17 @ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

rsv@Genesis:10:18 @ the Ar'vadites, the Zem'arites, and the Ha'mathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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:10:20 @ These are the sons of Ham, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

rsv@Genesis:10:21 @ To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.

rsv@Genesis:10:22 @ The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpach'shad, Lud, and Aram.

rsv@Genesis:10:23 @ The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

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

rsv@Genesis:10:25 @ To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

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:10:28 @ Obal, Abim'a-el, Sheba,

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

rsv@Genesis:10:30 @ The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.

rsv@Genesis:10:31 @ These are the sons of Shem, by their families, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

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:11:1 @ Now the whole earth had one language and few words.

rsv@Genesis:11:2 @ And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

rsv@Genesis:11:3 @ And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

rsv@Genesis:11:4 @ Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

rsv@Genesis:11:5 @ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.

rsv@Genesis:11:6 @ And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

rsv@Genesis:11:7 @ Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

rsv@Genesis:11:8 @ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

rsv@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

rsv@Genesis:11:10 @ These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arpach'shad two years after the flood;

rsv@Genesis:11:11 @ and Shem lived after the birth of Arpach'shad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.

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:11:16 @ When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;

rsv@Genesis:11:17 @ and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:11:18 @ When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Re'u;

rsv@Genesis:11:19 @ and Peleg lived after the birth of Re'u two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters.

rsv@Genesis:11:20 @ When Re'u had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;

rsv@Genesis:11:21 @ and Re'u lived after the birth of Serug two hundred and seven 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:11:30 @ Now Sar'ai was barren; she had no child.

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:12:1 @ Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

rsv@Genesis:12:2 @ And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

rsv@Genesis:12:3 @ I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves."

rsv@Genesis:12:4 @ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

rsv@Genesis:12:5 @ And Abram took Sar'ai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

rsv@Genesis:12:6 @ Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

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

rsv@Genesis:12:8 @ Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:12:9 @ And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

rsv@Genesis:12:10 @ Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

rsv@Genesis:12:11 @ When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sar'ai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;

rsv@Genesis:12:12 @ and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, `This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

rsv@Genesis:12:13 @ Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."

rsv@Genesis:12:14 @ When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

rsv@Genesis:12:15 @ And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

rsv@Genesis:12:16 @ And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels.

rsv@Genesis:12:17 @ But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sar'ai, Abram's wife.

rsv@Genesis:12:18 @ So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

rsv@Genesis:12:19 @ Why did you say, `She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."

rsv@Genesis:12:20 @ And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.

rsv@Genesis:13:1 @ So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

rsv@Genesis:13:2 @ Now Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

rsv@Genesis:13:3 @ And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

rsv@Genesis:13:4 @ to the place where he had made an altar at the first; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:13:5 @ And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,

rsv@Genesis:13:6 @ so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,

rsv@Genesis:13:7 @ and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. At that time the Canaanites and the Per'izzites dwelt in the land.

rsv@Genesis:13:8 @ Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are kinsmen.

rsv@Genesis:13:9 @ Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."

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:13:11 @ So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan valley, and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated from each other.

rsv@Genesis:13:12 @ Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

rsv@Genesis:13:13 @ Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:13:14 @ The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

rsv@Genesis:13:15 @ for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants for ever.

rsv@Genesis:13:16 @ I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

rsv@Genesis:13:17 @ Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."

rsv@Genesis:13:18 @ So Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:14:1 @ In the days of Am'raphel king of Shinar, Ar'ioch king of Ella'sar, Ched-or-lao'mer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goi'im,

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:14:3 @ And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

rsv@Genesis:14:4 @ Twelve years they had served Ched-or-lao'mer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

rsv@Genesis:14:5 @ In the fourteenth year Ched-or-lao'mer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Reph'aim in Ash'teroth-karna'im, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Sha'veh-kiriatha'im,

rsv@Genesis:14:6 @ and the Horites in their Mount Se'ir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness;

rsv@Genesis:14:7 @ then they turned back and came to Enmish'pat (that is, Kadesh), and subdued all the country of the Amal'ekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Haz'azon-ta'mar.

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:14:9 @ with Ched-or-lao'mer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goi'im, Am'raphel king of Shinar, and Ar'ioch king of Ella'sar, four kings against five.

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:14:12 @ they also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

rsv@Genesis:14:13 @ Then one who had escaped came, and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner; these were allies of Abram.

rsv@Genesis:14:14 @ When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Daniel.

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:14:16 @ Then he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his goods, and the women and the people.

rsv@Genesis:14:17 @ After his return from the defeat of Ched-or-lao'mer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).

rsv@Genesis:14:18 @ And Mel-chiz'edek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

rsv@Genesis:14:19 @ And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth;

rsv@Genesis:14:20 @ and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

rsv@Genesis:14:21 @ And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."

rsv@Genesis:14:22 @ But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn to the LORD God Most High, maker of heaven and earth,

rsv@Genesis:14:23 @ that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, lest you should say, `I have made Abram rich.'

rsv@Genesis:14:24 @ I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me; let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."

rsv@Genesis:15:1 @ After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."

rsv@Genesis:15:2 @ But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Elie'zer of Damascus?"

rsv@Genesis:15:3 @ And Abram said, "Behold, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my house will be my heir."

rsv@Genesis:15:4 @ And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, "This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall be your heir."

rsv@Genesis:15:5 @ And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

rsv@Genesis:15:6 @ And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

rsv@Genesis:15:7 @ And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chalde'ans, to give you this land to possess."

rsv@Genesis:15:8 @ But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"

rsv@Genesis:15:9 @ He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

rsv@Genesis:15:10 @ And he brought him all these, cut them in two, and laid each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.

rsv@Genesis:15:11 @ And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

rsv@Genesis:15:12 @ As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and lo, a dread and great darkness fell upon him.

rsv@Genesis:15:13 @ Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;

rsv@Genesis:15:14 @ but I will bring judgment on the nation which they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

rsv@Genesis:15:15 @ As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

rsv@Genesis:15:16 @ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

rsv@Genesis:15:17 @ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

rsv@Genesis:15:18 @ On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra'tes,

rsv@Genesis:15:19 @ the land of the Ken'ites, the Ken'izzites, the Kad'monites,

rsv@Genesis:15:20 @ the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Reph'aim,

rsv@Genesis:15:21 @ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Gir'gashites and the Jeb'usites."

rsv@Genesis:16:1 @ Now Sar'ai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;

rsv@Genesis:16:2 @ and Sar'ai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sar'ai.

rsv@Genesis:16:3 @ So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sar'ai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

rsv@Genesis:16:4 @ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

rsv@Genesis:16:5 @ And Sar'ai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

rsv@Genesis:16:6 @ But Abram said to Sar'ai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sar'ai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

rsv@Genesis:16:7 @ The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

rsv@Genesis:16:8 @ And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai."

rsv@Genesis:16:9 @ The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit to her."

rsv@Genesis:16:10 @ The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude."

rsv@Genesis:16:11 @ And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ish'mael; because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.

rsv@Genesis:16:12 @ He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."

rsv@Genesis:16:13 @ So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "Thou art a God of seeing"; for she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?"

rsv@Genesis:16:14 @ Therefore the well was called Beer-la'hai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

rsv@Genesis:16:15 @ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ish'mael.

rsv@Genesis:16:16 @ Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ish'mael to Abram.

rsv@Genesis:17:1 @ When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.

rsv@Genesis:17:2 @ And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

rsv@Genesis:17:3 @ Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him,

rsv@Genesis:17:4 @ "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

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:17:6 @ I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you.

rsv@Genesis:17:7 @ And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

rsv@Genesis:17:8 @ And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

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:17:10 @ This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

rsv@Genesis:17:11 @ You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

rsv@Genesis:17:12 @ He that is eight days old among you shall be circumcised; every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house, or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,

rsv@Genesis:17:13 @ both he that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

rsv@Genesis:17:14 @ Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."

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:17:16 @ I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."

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:17:20 @ As for Ish'mael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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:17:25 @ And Ish'mael his son was thirteen 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:17:27 @ and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

rsv@Genesis:18:1 @ And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.

rsv@Genesis:18:2 @ He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth,

rsv@Genesis:18:3 @ and said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.

rsv@Genesis:18:4 @ Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,

rsv@Genesis:18:5 @ while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on--since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said."

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:18:8 @ Then he took curds, and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

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:18:21 @ I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me; and if not, I will know."

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:18:24 @ Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

rsv@Genesis:18:25 @ Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

rsv@Genesis:18:26 @ And the LORD said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

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:18:28 @ Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."

rsv@Genesis:18:29 @ Again he spoke to him, and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it."

rsv@Genesis:18:30 @ Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

rsv@Genesis:18:31 @ He said, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it."

rsv@Genesis:18:32 @ Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it."

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:19:1 @ The two angels came to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth,

rsv@Genesis:19:2 @ and said, "My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the street."

rsv@Genesis:19:3 @ But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

rsv@Genesis:19:4 @ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house;

rsv@Genesis:19:5 @ and they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them."

rsv@Genesis:19:6 @ Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him,

rsv@Genesis:19:7 @ and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.

rsv@Genesis:19:8 @ Behold, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."

rsv@Genesis:19:9 @ But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came to sojourn, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

rsv@Genesis:19:10 @ But the men put forth their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

rsv@Genesis:19:11 @ And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves groping for the door.

rsv@Genesis:19:12 @ Then the men said to Lot, "Have you any one else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

rsv@Genesis:19:13 @ for we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

rsv@Genesis:19:14 @ So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place; for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

rsv@Genesis:19:15 @ When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city."

rsv@Genesis:19:16 @ But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.

rsv@Genesis:19:17 @ And when they had brought them forth, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; flee to the hills, lest you be consumed."

rsv@Genesis:19:18 @ And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords;

rsv@Genesis:19:19 @ behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.

rsv@Genesis:19:20 @ Behold, yonder city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there--is it not a little one?--and my life will be saved!"

rsv@Genesis:19:21 @ He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

rsv@Genesis:19:22 @ Make haste, escape there; for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zo'ar.

rsv@Genesis:19:23 @ The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zo'ar.

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

rsv@Genesis:19:25 @ and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

rsv@Genesis:19:26 @ But Lot's wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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:19:30 @ Now Lot went up out of Zo'ar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zo'ar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters.

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

rsv@Genesis:19:32 @ Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."

rsv@Genesis:19:33 @ So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

rsv@Genesis:19:34 @ And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."

rsv@Genesis:19:35 @ So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

rsv@Genesis:19:36 @ Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

rsv@Genesis:19:37 @ The first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

rsv@Genesis:19:38 @ The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

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:20:3 @ But God came to Abim'elech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife."

rsv@Genesis:20:4 @ Now Abim'elech had not approached her; so he said, "Lord, wilt thou slay an innocent people?

rsv@Genesis:20:5 @ Did he not himself say to me, `She is my sister'? And she herself said, `He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."

rsv@Genesis:20:6 @ Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

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

rsv@Genesis:20:8 @ So Abim'elech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.

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:20:12 @ Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

rsv@Genesis:20:13 @ And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, `This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"

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:20:15 @ And Abim'elech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you."

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:21:13 @ And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."

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:21:15 @ When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes.

rsv@Genesis:21:16 @ Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Let me not look upon the death of the child." And as she sat over against him, the child lifted up his voice and wept.

rsv@Genesis:21:17 @ And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.

rsv@Genesis:21:18 @ Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will make him a great nation."

rsv@Genesis:21:19 @ Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.

rsv@Genesis:21:20 @ And God was with the lad, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.

rsv@Genesis:21:21 @ He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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:21:23 @ now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."

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:21:26 @ Abim'elech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."

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:21:30 @ He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well."

rsv@Genesis:21:31 @ Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.

rsv@Genesis:21:32 @ So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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:22:12 @ He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

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:22:16 @ and said, "By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

rsv@Genesis:22:17 @ I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,

rsv@Genesis:22:18 @ and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice."

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:22:21 @ Uz the first-born, Buz his brother, Kemu'el the father of Aram,

rsv@Genesis:22:22 @ Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethu'el."

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:23:4 @ "I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

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

rsv@Genesis:23:6 @ "Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our sepulchres; none of us will withhold from you his sepulchre, or hinder you from burying your dead."

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

rsv@Genesis:23:8 @ And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,

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:23:11 @ "No, my lord, hear me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it; in the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead."

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

rsv@Genesis:23:13 @ And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me; I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."

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

rsv@Genesis:23:15 @ "My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."

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

rsv@Genesis:24:4 @ but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

rsv@Genesis:24:5 @ The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"

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

rsv@Genesis:24:7 @ The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and swore to me, `To your descendants I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

rsv@Genesis:24:8 @ But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must 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:24:11 @ And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.

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:24:13 @ Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

rsv@Genesis:24:14 @ Let the maiden to whom I shall say, `Pray let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, `Drink, and I will water your camels'--let her be the one whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac. By this I shall know that thou hast shown steadfast love to my master."

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:24:16 @ The maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, and filled her jar, and came up.

rsv@Genesis:24:17 @ Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, "Pray give me a little water to drink from your jar."

rsv@Genesis:24:18 @ She said, "Drink, my lord"; and she quickly let down her jar upon her hand, and gave him a drink.

rsv@Genesis:24:19 @ When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw for your camels also, until they have done drinking."

rsv@Genesis:24:20 @ So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

rsv@Genesis:24:21 @ The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not.

rsv@Genesis:24:22 @ When the camels had done drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

rsv@Genesis:24:23 @ and said, "Tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"

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:24:25 @ She added, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."

rsv@Genesis:24:26 @ The man bowed his head and worshiped the LORD,

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:24:28 @ Then the maiden ran and told her mother's household about these things.

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:24:31 @ He said, "Come in, O blessed of the LORD; why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."

rsv@Genesis:24:32 @ So the man came into the house; and Laban ungirded the camels, and gave him straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

rsv@Genesis:24:33 @ Then food was set before him to eat; but he said, "I will not eat until I have told my errand." He said, "Speak on."

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

rsv@Genesis:24:35 @ The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and asses.

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:24:37 @ My master made me swear, saying, `You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

rsv@Genesis:24:38 @ but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

rsv@Genesis:24:39 @ I said to my master, `Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

rsv@Genesis:24:40 @ But he said to me, `The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father's house;

rsv@Genesis:24:41 @ then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my kindred; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'

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:24:43 @ behold, I am standing by the spring of water; let the young woman who comes out to draw, to whom I shall say, "Pray give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

rsv@Genesis:24:44 @ and who will say to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'

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:24:46 @ She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder, and said, `Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.

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:24:49 @ Now then, if you will deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."

rsv@Genesis:24:50 @ Then Laban and Bethu'el answered, "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

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:24:54 @ And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me back to my master."

rsv@Genesis:24:55 @ Her brother and her mother said, "Let the maiden remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."

rsv@Genesis:24:56 @ But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way; let me go that I may go to my master."

rsv@Genesis:24:57 @ They said, "We will call the maiden, and ask her."

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:24:62 @ Now Isaac had come from Beer-la'hai-roi, and was dwelling in the Negeb.

rsv@Genesis:24:63 @ And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there were camels coming.

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

rsv@Genesis:24:65 @ and said to the servant, "Who is the man yonder, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.

rsv@Genesis:24:66 @ And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

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:25:3 @ Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshu'rim, Letu'shim, and Le-um'mim.

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:25:13 @ These are the names of the sons of Ish'mael, named in the order of their birth: Neba'ioth, the first-born of Ish'mael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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

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

rsv@Genesis:25:16 @ These are the sons of Ish'mael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.

rsv@Genesis:25:17 @ (These are the years of the life of Ish'mael, a hundred and thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his kindred.)

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:25:22 @ The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is thus, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

rsv@Genesis:25:23 @ And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born of you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger."

rsv@Genesis:25:24 @ When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

rsv@Genesis:25:25 @ The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called his name Esau.

rsv@Genesis:25:26 @ Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand had taken hold of Esau's heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

rsv@Genesis:25:27 @ When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

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

rsv@Genesis:25:29 @ Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

rsv@Genesis:25:30 @ And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red pottage, for I am famished!" (Therefore his name was called Edom.)

rsv@Genesis:25:31 @ Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright."

rsv@Genesis:25:32 @ Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?"

rsv@Genesis:25:33 @ Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

rsv@Genesis:25:34 @ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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:26:2 @ And the LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.

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:26:4 @ I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:

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

rsv@Genesis:26:6 @ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

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:26:9 @ So Abim'elech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, she is your wife; how then could you say, `She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, `Lest I die because of her.'"

rsv@Genesis:26:10 @ Abim'elech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

rsv@Genesis:26:11 @ So Abim'elech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death."

rsv@Genesis:26:12 @ And Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,

rsv@Genesis:26:13 @ and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.

rsv@Genesis:26:14 @ He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

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:26:16 @ And Abim'elech said to Isaac, "Go away from us; for you are much mightier than we."

rsv@Genesis:26:17 @ So Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.

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:26:19 @ But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of springing water,

rsv@Genesis:26:20 @ the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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

rsv@Genesis:26:22 @ And he moved from there and dug another well, and over that they did not quarrel; so he called its name Reho'both, saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

rsv@Genesis:26:23 @ From there he went up to Beer-sheba.

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:26:25 @ So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

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:26:27 @ Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

rsv@Genesis:26:28 @ They said, "We see plainly that the LORD is with you; so we say, let there be an oath between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

rsv@Genesis:26:29 @ that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD."

rsv@Genesis:26:30 @ So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

rsv@Genesis:26:31 @ In the morning they rose early and took oath with one another; and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

rsv@Genesis:26:32 @ That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

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

rsv@Genesis:26:34 @ When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Be-e'ri the Hittite, and Bas'emath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

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

rsv@Genesis:27:1 @ When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son, and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."

rsv@Genesis:27:2 @ He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

rsv@Genesis:27:3 @ Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me,

rsv@Genesis:27:4 @ and prepare for me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat; that I may bless you before I die."

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:27:7 @ `Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food, that I may eat it, and bless you before the LORD before I die.'

rsv@Genesis:27:8 @ Now therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you.

rsv@Genesis:27:9 @ Go to the flock, and fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he loves;

rsv@Genesis:27:10 @ and you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."

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:27:12 @ Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing."

rsv@Genesis:27:13 @ His mother said to him, "Upon me be your curse, my son; only obey my word, and go, fetch them to me."

rsv@Genesis:27:14 @ So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.

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:27:16 @ and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon the smooth part of his neck;

rsv@Genesis:27:17 @ and she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

rsv@Genesis:27:18 @ So he went in to his father, and said, "My father"; and he said, "Here I am; who are you, my son?"

rsv@Genesis:27:19 @ Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your first-born. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that you may bless me."

rsv@Genesis:27:20 @ But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."

rsv@Genesis:27:21 @ Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."

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

rsv@Genesis:27:23 @ And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.

rsv@Genesis:27:24 @ He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."

rsv@Genesis:27:25 @ Then he said, "Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

rsv@Genesis:27:26 @ Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."

rsv@Genesis:27:27 @ So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed!

rsv@Genesis:27:28 @ May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.

rsv@Genesis:27:29 @ Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses you!"

rsv@Genesis:27:30 @ As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

rsv@Genesis:27:31 @ He also prepared savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me."

rsv@Genesis:27:32 @ His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your first-born, Esau."

rsv@Genesis:27:33 @ Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?--yes, and he shall be blessed."

rsv@Genesis:27:34 @ When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"

rsv@Genesis:27:35 @ But he said, "Your brother came with guile, and he has taken away your blessing."

rsv@Genesis:27:36 @ Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

rsv@Genesis:27:37 @ Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"

rsv@Genesis:27:38 @ Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

rsv@Genesis:27:39 @ Then Isaac his father answered him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.

rsv@Genesis:27:40 @ By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose you shall break his yoke from your neck."

rsv@Genesis:27:41 @ Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

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:27:43 @ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran,

rsv@Genesis:27:44 @ and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away;

rsv@Genesis:27:45 @ until your brother's anger turns away, and he forgets what you have done to him; then I will send, and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"

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:28:1 @ Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.

rsv@Genesis:28:2 @ Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethu'el your mother's father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

rsv@Genesis:28:3 @ God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

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:28:6 @ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women,"

rsv@Genesis:28:7 @ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

rsv@Genesis:28:8 @ So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

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:28:10 @ Jacob left Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

rsv@Genesis:28:11 @ And he came to a certain place, and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.

rsv@Genesis:28:12 @ And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

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:28:14 @ and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.

rsv@Genesis:28:15 @ Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you."

rsv@Genesis:28:16 @ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know it."

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

rsv@Genesis:28:18 @ So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone which he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

rsv@Genesis:28:19 @ He called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

rsv@Genesis:28:20 @ Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

rsv@Genesis:28:21 @ so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God,

rsv@Genesis:28:22 @ and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that thou givest me I will give the tenth to thee."

rsv@Genesis:29:1 @ Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east.

rsv@Genesis:29:2 @ As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheep lying beside it; for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large,

rsv@Genesis:29:3 @ and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place upon the mouth of the well.

rsv@Genesis:29:4 @ Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

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

rsv@Genesis:29:6 @ He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"

rsv@Genesis:29:7 @ He said, "Behold, it is still high day, it is not time for the animals to be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, pasture them."

rsv@Genesis:29:8 @ But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."

rsv@Genesis:29:9 @ While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

rsv@Genesis:29:10 @ Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

rsv@Genesis:29:11 @ Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and wept aloud.

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:29:13 @ When Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

rsv@Genesis:29:14 @ and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.

rsv@Genesis:29:15 @ Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"

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:29:18 @ Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

rsv@Genesis:29:19 @ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me."

rsv@Genesis:29:20 @ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

rsv@Genesis:29:21 @ Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed."

rsv@Genesis:29:22 @ So Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

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:29:26 @ Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.

rsv@Genesis:29:27 @ Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years."

rsv@Genesis:29:28 @ Jacob did so, and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to wife.

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:29:33 @ She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also"; and she called his name Simeon.

rsv@Genesis:29:34 @ Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons"; therefore his name was called Levi.

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:30:1 @ When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"

rsv@Genesis:30:2 @ Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

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:30:6 @ Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son"; therefore she called his name Daniel.

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

rsv@Genesis:30:8 @ Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed"; so she called his name Naph'tali.

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:30:15 @ But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight for 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:30:22 @ Then God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

rsv@Genesis:30:23 @ She conceived and bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach";

rsv@Genesis:30:24 @ and she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!"

rsv@Genesis:30:25 @ When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

rsv@Genesis:30:26 @ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have given you."

rsv@Genesis:30:27 @ But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you;

rsv@Genesis:30:28 @ name your wages, and I will give it."

rsv@Genesis:30:29 @ Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

rsv@Genesis:30:30 @ For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"

rsv@Genesis:30:31 @ He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it:

rsv@Genesis:30:32 @ let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.

rsv@Genesis:30:33 @ So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."

rsv@Genesis:30:34 @ Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you have said."

rsv@Genesis:30:35 @ But that day Laban removed the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in charge of his sons;

rsv@Genesis:30:36 @ and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

rsv@Genesis:30:37 @ Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods.

rsv@Genesis:30:38 @ He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the runnels, that is, the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,

rsv@Genesis:30:39 @ the flocks bred in front of the rods and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

rsv@Genesis:30:40 @ And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.

rsv@Genesis:30:41 @ Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding Jacob laid the rods in the runnels before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the rods,

rsv@Genesis:30:42 @ but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

rsv@Genesis:30:43 @ Thus the man grew exceedingly rich, and had large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and asses.

rsv@Genesis:31:1 @ Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."

rsv@Genesis:31:2 @ And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.

rsv@Genesis:31:3 @ Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."

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

rsv@Genesis:31:5 @ and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.

rsv@Genesis:31:6 @ You know that I have served your father with all my strength;

rsv@Genesis:31:7 @ yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.

rsv@Genesis:31:8 @ If he said, `The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, `The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.

rsv@Genesis:31:9 @ Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

rsv@Genesis:31:10 @ In the mating season of the flock I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream that the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.

rsv@Genesis:31:11 @ Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, `Jacob,' and I said, `Here I am!'

rsv@Genesis:31:12 @ And he said, `Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

rsv@Genesis:31:13 @ I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go forth from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

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:31:15 @ Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.

rsv@Genesis:31:16 @ All the property which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

rsv@Genesis:31:17 @ So Jacob arose, and set his sons and his wives on camels;

rsv@Genesis:31:18 @ and he drove away all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

rsv@Genesis:31:19 @ Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

rsv@Genesis:31:20 @ And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

rsv@Genesis:31:21 @ He fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphra'tes, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

rsv@Genesis:31:22 @ When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

rsv@Genesis:31:23 @ he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

rsv@Genesis:31:24 @ But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, "Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad."

rsv@Genesis:31:25 @ And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country of Gilead.

rsv@Genesis:31:26 @ And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have cheated me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

rsv@Genesis:31:27 @ Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

rsv@Genesis:31:28 @ And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.

rsv@Genesis:31:29 @ It is in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, `Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.'

rsv@Genesis:31:30 @ And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"

rsv@Genesis:31:31 @ Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

rsv@Genesis:31:32 @ Any one with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

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:31:34 @ Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

rsv@Genesis:31:35 @ And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched, but did not find the household gods.

rsv@Genesis:31:36 @ Then Jacob became angry, and upbraided Laban; Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

rsv@Genesis:31:37 @ Although you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

rsv@Genesis:31:38 @ These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

rsv@Genesis:31:39 @ That which was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself; of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

rsv@Genesis:31:40 @ Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

rsv@Genesis:31:41 @ These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

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:31:43 @ Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

rsv@Genesis:31:44 @ Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be a witness between you and me."

rsv@Genesis:31:45 @ So Jacob took a stone, and set it up as a pillar.

rsv@Genesis:31:46 @ And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones," and they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there by the heap.

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

rsv@Genesis:31:48 @ Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named 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:31:50 @ If you ill-treat my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us, remember, God is witness between you and me."

rsv@Genesis:31:51 @ Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.

rsv@Genesis:31:52 @ This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

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:31:54 @ and Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread; and they ate bread and tarried all night on the mountain.

rsv@Genesis:31:55 @ Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed and returned home.

rsv@Genesis:32:1 @ Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him;

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:32:3 @ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Se'ir, the country of Edom,

rsv@Genesis:32:4 @ instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, `I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;

rsv@Genesis:32:5 @ and I have oxen, asses, flocks, menservants, and maidservants; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"

rsv@Genesis:32:6 @ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

rsv@Genesis:32:7 @ Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies,

rsv@Genesis:32:8 @ thinking, "If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company which is left will escape."

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:32:10 @ I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

rsv@Genesis:32:11 @ Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.

rsv@Genesis:32:12 @ But thou didst say, `I will do you good, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"

rsv@Genesis:32:13 @ So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,

rsv@Genesis:32:14 @ two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

rsv@Genesis:32:15 @ thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten he-asses.

rsv@Genesis:32:16 @ These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between drove and drove."

rsv@Genesis:32:17 @ He instructed the foremost, "When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, `To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these before you?'

rsv@Genesis:32:18 @ then you shall say, `They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.'"

rsv@Genesis:32:19 @ He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him,

rsv@Genesis:32:20 @ and you shall say, `Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me."

rsv@Genesis:32:21 @ So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

rsv@Genesis:32:22 @ The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

rsv@Genesis:32:23 @ He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.

rsv@Genesis:32:24 @ And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

rsv@Genesis:32:25 @ When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

rsv@Genesis:32:26 @ Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me."

rsv@Genesis:32:27 @ And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."

rsv@Genesis:32:28 @ Then he said, "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

rsv@Genesis:32:29 @ Then Jacob asked him, "Tell me, I pray, your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.

rsv@Genesis:32:30 @ So Jacob called the name of the place Peni'el, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved."

rsv@Genesis:32:31 @ The sun rose upon him as he passed Penu'el, limping because of his thigh.

rsv@Genesis:32:32 @ Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew of the hip.

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:33:3 @ He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

rsv@Genesis:33:4 @ But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

rsv@Genesis:33:5 @ And when Esau raised his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

rsv@Genesis:33:6 @ Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;

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:33:8 @ Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

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

rsv@Genesis:33:10 @ Jacob said, "No, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God, with such favor have you received me.

rsv@Genesis:33:11 @ Accept, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.

rsv@Genesis:33:12 @ Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go before you."

rsv@Genesis:33:13 @ But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.

rsv@Genesis:33:14 @ Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Se'ir."

rsv@Genesis:33:15 @ So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the men who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

rsv@Genesis:33:16 @ So Esau returned that day on his way to Se'ir.

rsv@Genesis:33:17 @ But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

rsv@Genesis:33:18 @ And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.

rsv@Genesis:33:19 @ And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

rsv@Genesis:33:20 @ There he erected an altar and called it El-El'ohe-Israel.

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:34:2 @ and when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humbled her.

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:34:4 @ So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this maiden for my wife."

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:34:6 @ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.

rsv@Genesis:34:7 @ The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of it; and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.

rsv@Genesis:34:8 @ But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you, give her to him in marriage.

rsv@Genesis:34:9 @ Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

rsv@Genesis:34:10 @ You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you; dwell and trade in it, and get property in it."

rsv@Genesis:34:11 @ Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.

rsv@Genesis:34:12 @ Ask of me ever so much as marriage present and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; only give me the maiden to be my wife."

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

rsv@Genesis:34:14 @ They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

rsv@Genesis:34:15 @ Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised.

rsv@Genesis:34:16 @ Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

rsv@Genesis:34:17 @ But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."

rsv@Genesis:34:18 @ Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem.

rsv@Genesis:34:19 @ And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.

rsv@Genesis:34:20 @ So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

rsv@Genesis:34:21 @ "These men are friendly with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters in marriage, and let us give them our daughters.

rsv@Genesis:34:22 @ Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

rsv@Genesis:34:23 @ Will not their cattle, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us."

rsv@Genesis:34:24 @ And all who went out of the gate of his city hearkened to Hamor and his son Shechem; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

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:34:27 @ And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;

rsv@Genesis:34:28 @ they took their flocks and their herds, their asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;

rsv@Genesis:34:29 @ all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and made their prey.

rsv@Genesis:34:30 @ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."

rsv@Genesis:34:31 @ But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"

rsv@Genesis:35:1 @ God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

rsv@Genesis:35:2 @ So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

rsv@Genesis:35:3 @ then let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."

rsv@Genesis:35:4 @ So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

rsv@Genesis:35:5 @ And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were round about them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

rsv@Genesis:35:6 @ And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

rsv@Genesis:35:7 @ and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

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:35:9 @ God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

rsv@Genesis:35:10 @ And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So his name was called Israel.

rsv@Genesis:35:11 @ And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

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:35:13 @ Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.

rsv@Genesis:35:14 @ And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

rsv@Genesis:35:15 @ So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.

rsv@Genesis:35:16 @ Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

rsv@Genesis:35:17 @ And when she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Fear not; for now you will have another son."

rsv@Genesis:35:18 @ And as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-o'ni; but his father called his name Benjamin.

rsv@Genesis:35:19 @ So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),

rsv@Genesis:35:20 @ and Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.

rsv@Genesis:35:21 @ Israel journeyed on, and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

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:35:24 @ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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:35:28 @ Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

rsv@Genesis:35:29 @ And Isaac breathed his last; and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

rsv@Genesis:36:1 @ These are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom).

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:36:3 @ and Bas'emath, Ish'mael's daughter, the sister of Neba'ioth.

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:36:6 @ Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his beasts, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

rsv@Genesis:36:7 @ For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their cattle.

rsv@Genesis:36:8 @ So Esau dwelt in the hill country of Se'ir; Esau is Edom.

rsv@Genesis:36:9 @ These are the descendants of Esau the father of the E'domites in the hill country of Se'ir.

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:36:11 @ The sons of El'iphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

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:36:15 @ These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of El'iphaz the first-born of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,

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:36:19 @ These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

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:36:21 @ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Se'ir in the land of Edom.

rsv@Genesis:36:22 @ The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

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:36:26 @ These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

rsv@Genesis:36:27 @ These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Za'avan, and Akan.

rsv@Genesis:36:28 @ These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

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

rsv@Genesis:36:30 @ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their clans in the land of Se'ir.

rsv@Genesis:36:31 @ These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.

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:36:34 @ Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Te'manites reigned in his stead.

rsv@Genesis:36:35 @ Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Mid'ian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead, the name of his city being Avith.

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:36:38 @ Shaul died, and Ba'al-ha'nan the son of Achbor 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:36:42 @ Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

rsv@Genesis:36:43 @ Mag'diel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.

rsv@Genesis:37:1 @ Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

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:37:3 @ Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe with sleeves.

rsv@Genesis:37:4 @ But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

rsv@Genesis:37:5 @ Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they only hated him the more.

rsv@Genesis:37:6 @ He said to them, "Hear this dream which I have dreamed:

rsv@Genesis:37:7 @ behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and stood upright; and behold, your sheaves gathered round it, and bowed down to my sheaf."

rsv@Genesis:37:8 @ His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So they hated him yet more for his dreams and for his words.

rsv@Genesis:37:9 @ Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream; and behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

rsv@Genesis:37:10 @ But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"

rsv@Genesis:37:11 @ And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

rsv@Genesis:37:12 @ Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.

rsv@Genesis:37:13 @ And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."

rsv@Genesis:37:14 @ So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

rsv@Genesis:37:15 @ And a man found him wandering in the fields; and the man asked him, "What are you seeking?"

rsv@Genesis:37:16 @ "I am seeking my brothers," he said, "tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing the flock."

rsv@Genesis:37:17 @ And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, `Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers, and found them at Dothan.

rsv@Genesis:37:18 @ They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.

rsv@Genesis:37:19 @ They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer.

rsv@Genesis:37:20 @ Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild beast has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams."

rsv@Genesis:37:21 @ But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."

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

rsv@Genesis:37:23 @ So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore;

rsv@Genesis:37:24 @ and they took him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.

rsv@Genesis:37:25 @ Then they sat down to eat; and looking up they saw a caravan of Ish'maelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.

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:37:27 @ Come, let us sell him to the Ish'maelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers heeded him.

rsv@Genesis:37:28 @ Then Mid'ianite traders passed by; and they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ish'maelites for twenty shekels of silver; and they took Joseph to Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:37:29 @ When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes

rsv@Genesis:37:30 @ and returned to his brothers, and said, "The lad is gone; and I, where shall I go?"

rsv@Genesis:37:31 @ Then they took Joseph's robe, and killed a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood;

rsv@Genesis:37:32 @ and they sent the long robe with sleeves and brought it to their father, and said, "This we have found; see now whether it is your son's robe or not."

rsv@Genesis:37:33 @ And he recognized it, and said, "It is my son's robe; a wild beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."

rsv@Genesis:37:34 @ Then Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

rsv@Genesis:37:35 @ All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.

rsv@Genesis:37:36 @ Meanwhile the Mid'ianites had sold him in Egypt to Pot'i-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.

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:38:3 @ and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

rsv@Genesis:38:4 @ Again she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.

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:38:9 @ But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

rsv@Genesis:38:10 @ And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him also.

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:38:16 @ He went over to her at the road side, and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

rsv@Genesis:38:17 @ He answered, "I will send you a kid from the flock." And she said, "Will you give me a pledge, till you send it?"

rsv@Genesis:38:18 @ He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

rsv@Genesis:38:19 @ Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.

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:38:21 @ And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the harlot who was at Enaim by the wayside?" And they said, "No harlot has been here."

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:38:25 @ As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am with child." And she said, "Mark, I pray you, whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."

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:38:27 @ When the time of her delivery came, there were twins in her womb.

rsv@Genesis:38:28 @ And when she was in labor, one put out a hand; and the midwife took and bound on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, "This came out first."

rsv@Genesis:38:29 @ But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out; and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.

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

rsv@Genesis:39:1 @ Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Pot'i-phar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ish'maelites who had brought him down there.

rsv@Genesis:39:2 @ The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian,

rsv@Genesis:39:3 @ and his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hands.

rsv@Genesis:39:4 @ So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.

rsv@Genesis:39:5 @ From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had, in house and field.

rsv@Genesis:39:6 @ So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and having him he had no concern for anything but the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.

rsv@Genesis:39:7 @ And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, "Lie with me."

rsv@Genesis:39:8 @ But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Lo, having me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand;

rsv@Genesis:39:9 @ he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

rsv@Genesis:39:10 @ And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.

rsv@Genesis:39:11 @ But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,

rsv@Genesis:39:12 @ she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and got out of the house.

rsv@Genesis:39:13 @ And when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had fled out of the house,

rsv@Genesis:39:14 @ she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;

rsv@Genesis:39:15 @ and when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled and got out of the house."

rsv@Genesis:39:16 @ Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,

rsv@Genesis:39:17 @ and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to insult me;

rsv@Genesis:39:18 @ but as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out of the house."

rsv@Genesis:39:19 @ When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled.

rsv@Genesis:39:20 @ And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.

rsv@Genesis:39:21 @ But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

rsv@Genesis:39:22 @ And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's care all the prisoners who were in the prison; and whatever was done there, he was the doer of it;

rsv@Genesis:39:23 @ the keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's care, because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made it prosper.

rsv@Genesis:40:1 @ Some time after this, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:40:2 @ And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker,

rsv@Genesis:40:3 @ and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.

rsv@Genesis:40:4 @ The captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he waited on them; and they continued for some time in custody.

rsv@Genesis:40:5 @ And one night they both dreamed--the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison--each his own dream, and each dream with its own meaning.

rsv@Genesis:40:6 @ When Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, they were troubled.

rsv@Genesis:40:7 @ So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"

rsv@Genesis:40:8 @ They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I pray you."

rsv@Genesis:40:9 @ So the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me,

rsv@Genesis:40:10 @ and on the vine there were three branches; as soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.

rsv@Genesis:40:11 @ Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand."

rsv@Genesis:40:12 @ Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days;

rsv@Genesis:40:13 @ within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his butler.

rsv@Genesis:40:14 @ But remember me, when it is well with you, and do me the kindness, I pray you, to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.

rsv@Genesis:40:15 @ For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

rsv@Genesis:40:16 @ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,

rsv@Genesis:40:17 @ and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head."

rsv@Genesis:40:18 @ And Joseph answered, "This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

rsv@Genesis:40:19 @ within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head--from you!--and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat the flesh from you."

rsv@Genesis:40:20 @ On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

rsv@Genesis:40:21 @ He restored the chief butler to his butlership, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand;

rsv@Genesis:40:22 @ but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

rsv@Genesis:40:23 @ Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

rsv@Genesis:41:1 @ After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

rsv@Genesis:41:2 @ and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows sleek and fat, and they fed in the reed grass.

rsv@Genesis:41:3 @ And behold, seven other cows, gaunt and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

rsv@Genesis:41:4 @ And the gaunt and thin cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke.

rsv@Genesis:41:5 @ And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.

rsv@Genesis:41:6 @ And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.

rsv@Genesis:41:7 @ And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

rsv@Genesis:41:8 @ So in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men; and Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was none who could interpret it to Pharaoh.

rsv@Genesis:41:9 @ Then the chief butler said to Pharaoh, "I remember my faults today.

rsv@Genesis:41:10 @ When Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,

rsv@Genesis:41:11 @ we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own meaning.

rsv@Genesis:41:12 @ A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard; and when we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.

rsv@Genesis:41:13 @ And as he interpreted to us, so it came to pass; I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged."

rsv@Genesis:41:14 @ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.

rsv@Genesis:41:15 @ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."

rsv@Genesis:41:16 @ Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer."

rsv@Genesis:41:17 @ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;

rsv@Genesis:41:18 @ and seven cows, fat and sleek, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass;

rsv@Genesis:41:19 @ and seven other cows came up after them, poor and very gaunt and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:41:20 @ And the thin and gaunt cows ate up the first seven fat cows,

rsv@Genesis:41:21 @ but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as gaunt as at the beginning. Then I awoke.

rsv@Genesis:41:22 @ I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good;

rsv@Genesis:41:23 @ and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,

rsv@Genesis:41:24 @ and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."

rsv@Genesis:41:25 @ Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

rsv@Genesis:41:26 @ The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.

rsv@Genesis:41:27 @ The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.

rsv@Genesis:41:28 @ It is as I told Pharaoh, God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

rsv@Genesis:41:29 @ There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,

rsv@Genesis:41:30 @ but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land,

rsv@Genesis:41:31 @ and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of that famine which will follow, for it will be very grievous.

rsv@Genesis:41:32 @ And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

rsv@Genesis:41:33 @ Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:41:34 @ Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plenteous years.

rsv@Genesis:41:35 @ And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

rsv@Genesis:41:36 @ That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine which are to befall the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine."

rsv@Genesis:41:37 @ This proposal seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

rsv@Genesis:41:38 @ And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a man as this, in whom is the Spirit of God?"

rsv@Genesis:41:39 @ So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are;

rsv@Genesis:41:40 @ you shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you."

rsv@Genesis:41:41 @ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

rsv@Genesis:41:42 @ Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

rsv@Genesis:41:43 @ and he made him to ride in his second chariot; and they cried before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:41:44 @ Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."

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:41:46 @ Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through all the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:41:47 @ During the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly,

rsv@Genesis:41:48 @ and he gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.

rsv@Genesis:41:49 @ And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

rsv@Genesis:41:50 @ Before the year of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera priest of On, bore to him.

rsv@Genesis:41:51 @ Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas'seh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

rsv@Genesis:41:52 @ The name of the second he called E'phraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

rsv@Genesis:41:53 @ The seven years of plenty that prevailed in the land of Egypt came to an end;

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

rsv@Genesis:41:55 @ When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do."

rsv@Genesis:41:56 @ So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:41:57 @ Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

rsv@Genesis:42:1 @ When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

rsv@Genesis:42:2 @ And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and not die."

rsv@Genesis:42:3 @ So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:42:4 @ But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might befall him.

rsv@Genesis:42:5 @ Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

rsv@Genesis:42:6 @ Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

rsv@Genesis:42:7 @ Joseph saw his brothers, and knew them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."

rsv@Genesis:42:8 @ Thus Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him.

rsv@Genesis:42:9 @ And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed of them; and he said to them, "You are spies, you have come to see the weakness of the land."

rsv@Genesis:42:10 @ They said to him, "No, my lord, but to buy food have your servants come.

rsv@Genesis:42:11 @ We are all sons of one man, we are honest men, your servants are not spies."

rsv@Genesis:42:12 @ He said to them, "No, it is the weakness of the land that you have come to see."

rsv@Genesis:42:13 @ And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

rsv@Genesis:42:14 @ But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you, you are spies.

rsv@Genesis:42:15 @ By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

rsv@Genesis:42:16 @ Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."

rsv@Genesis:42:17 @ And he put them all together in prison for three days.

rsv@Genesis:42:18 @ On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

rsv@Genesis:42:19 @ if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,

rsv@Genesis:42:20 @ and bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so.

rsv@Genesis:42:21 @ Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us."

rsv@Genesis:42:22 @ And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the lad? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood."

rsv@Genesis:42:23 @ They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.

rsv@Genesis:42:24 @ Then he turned away from them and wept; and he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

rsv@Genesis:42:25 @ And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.

rsv@Genesis:42:26 @ Then they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed.

rsv@Genesis:42:27 @ And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack;

rsv@Genesis:42:28 @ and he said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

rsv@Genesis:42:29 @ When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had befallen them, saying,

rsv@Genesis:42:30 @ "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the land.

rsv@Genesis:42:31 @ But we said to him, `We are honest men, we are not spies;

rsv@Genesis:42:32 @ we are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

rsv@Genesis:42:33 @ Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, `By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.

rsv@Genesis:42:34 @ Bring your youngest brother to me; then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver to you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.'"

rsv@Genesis:42:35 @ As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.

rsv@Genesis:42:36 @ And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me."

rsv@Genesis:42:37 @ Then Reuben said to his father, "Slay my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you."

rsv@Genesis:42:38 @ But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm should befall him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

rsv@Genesis:43:1 @ Now the famine was severe in the land.

rsv@Genesis:43:2 @ And when they had eaten the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little food."

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:43:4 @ If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food;

rsv@Genesis:43:5 @ but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, `You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

rsv@Genesis:43:6 @ Israel said, "Why did you treat me so ill as to tell the man that you had another brother?"

rsv@Genesis:43:7 @ They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, `Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions; could we in any way know that he would say, `Bring your brother down'?"

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:43:9 @ I will be surety for him; of my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever;

rsv@Genesis:43:10 @ for if we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice."

rsv@Genesis:43:11 @ Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

rsv@Genesis:43:12 @ Take double the money with you; carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

rsv@Genesis:43:13 @ Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man;

rsv@Genesis:43:14 @ may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

rsv@Genesis:43:15 @ So the men took the present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin; and they arose and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

rsv@Genesis:43:16 @ When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon."

rsv@Genesis:43:17 @ The man did as Joseph bade him, and brought the men to Joseph's house.

rsv@Genesis:43:18 @ And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may seek occasion against us and fall upon us, to make slaves of us and seize our asses."

rsv@Genesis:43:19 @ So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house, and spoke with him at the door of the house,

rsv@Genesis:43:20 @ and said, "Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food;

rsv@Genesis:43:21 @ and when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was every man's money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it again with us,

rsv@Genesis:43:22 @ and we have brought other money down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."

rsv@Genesis:43:23 @ He replied, "Rest assured, do not be afraid; your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your sacks for you; I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.

rsv@Genesis:43:24 @ And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house, and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their asses provender,

rsv@Genesis:43:25 @ they made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

rsv@Genesis:43:26 @ When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which they had with them, and bowed down to him to the ground.

rsv@Genesis:43:27 @ And he inquired about their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"

rsv@Genesis:43:28 @ They said, "Your servant our father is well, he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and made obeisance.

rsv@Genesis:43:29 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!"

rsv@Genesis:43:30 @ Then Joseph made haste, for his heart yearned for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.

rsv@Genesis:43:31 @ Then he washed his face and came out; and controlling himself he said, "Let food be served."

rsv@Genesis:43:32 @ They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

rsv@Genesis:43:33 @ And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked at one another in amazement.

rsv@Genesis:43:34 @ Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

rsv@Genesis:44:1 @ Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,

rsv@Genesis:44:2 @ and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him.

rsv@Genesis:44:3 @ As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their asses.

rsv@Genesis:44:4 @ When they had gone but a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, `Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?

rsv@Genesis:44:5 @ Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he divines? You have done wrong in so doing.'"

rsv@Genesis:44:6 @ When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.

rsv@Genesis:44:7 @ They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

rsv@Genesis:44:8 @ Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

rsv@Genesis:44:9 @ With whomever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."

rsv@Genesis:44:10 @ He said, "Let it be as you say: he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be blameless."

rsv@Genesis:44:11 @ Then every man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and every man opened his sack.

rsv@Genesis:44:12 @ And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

rsv@Genesis:44:13 @ Then they rent their clothes, and every man loaded his ass, and they returned to the city.

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:44:15 @ Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

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:44:17 @ But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

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:44:19 @ My lord asked his servants, saying, `Have you a father, or a brother?'

rsv@Genesis:44:20 @ And we said to my lord, `We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children; and his father loves him.'

rsv@Genesis:44:21 @ Then you said to your servants, `Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.'

rsv@Genesis:44:22 @ We said to my lord, `The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

rsv@Genesis:44:23 @ Then you said to your servants, `Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.'

rsv@Genesis:44:24 @ When we went back to your servant my father we told him the words of my lord.

rsv@Genesis:44:25 @ And when our father said, `Go again, buy us a little food,'

rsv@Genesis:44:26 @ we said, `We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

rsv@Genesis:44:27 @ Then your servant my father said to us, `You know that my wife bore me two sons;

rsv@Genesis:44:28 @ one left me, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces; and I have never seen him since.

rsv@Genesis:44:29 @ If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.'

rsv@Genesis:44:30 @ Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the lad's life,

rsv@Genesis:44:31 @ when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

rsv@Genesis:44:32 @ For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, `If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.'

rsv@Genesis:44:33 @ Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, remain instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go back with his brothers.

rsv@Genesis:44:34 @ For how can I go back to my father if the lad is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would come upon my father."

rsv@Genesis:45:1 @ Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, "Make every one go out from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

rsv@Genesis:45:2 @ And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.

rsv@Genesis:45:3 @ And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph; is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

rsv@Genesis:45:4 @ So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, I pray you." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:45:5 @ And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.

rsv@Genesis:45:6 @ For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

rsv@Genesis:45:7 @ And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

rsv@Genesis:45:8 @ So it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:45:9 @ Make haste and go up to my father and say to him, `Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry;

rsv@Genesis:45:10 @ you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have;

rsv@Genesis:45:11 @ and there I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come; lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.'

rsv@Genesis:45:12 @ And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

rsv@Genesis:45:13 @ You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here."

rsv@Genesis:45:14 @ Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

rsv@Genesis:45:15 @ And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers talked with him.

rsv@Genesis:45:16 @ When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.

rsv@Genesis:45:17 @ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, `Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan;

rsv@Genesis:45:18 @ and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'

rsv@Genesis:45:19 @ Command them also, `Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

rsv@Genesis:45:20 @ Give no thought to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

rsv@Genesis:45:21 @ The sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

rsv@Genesis:45:22 @ To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five festal garments.

rsv@Genesis:45:23 @ To his father he sent as follows: ten asses loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.

rsv@Genesis:45:24 @ Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not quarrel on the way."

rsv@Genesis:45:25 @ So they went up out of Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.

rsv@Genesis:45:26 @ And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.

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

rsv@Genesis:45:28 @ and Israel said, "It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive; I will go and see him before I die."

rsv@Genesis:46:1 @ So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

rsv@Genesis:46:2 @ And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I."

rsv@Genesis:46:3 @ Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation.

rsv@Genesis:46:4 @ I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes."

rsv@Genesis:46:5 @ Then Jacob set out from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

rsv@Genesis:46:6 @ They also took their cattle and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

rsv@Genesis:46:7 @ his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

rsv@Genesis:46:8 @ Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's first-born,

rsv@Genesis:46:9 @ and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

rsv@Genesis:46:10 @ The sons of Simeon: Jemu'el, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanitish woman.

rsv@Genesis:46:11 @ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merar'i.

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:46:16 @ The sons of Gad: Ziph'ion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Aro'di, and Are'li.

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:46:19 @ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

rsv@Genesis:46:20 @ And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manas'seh and E'phraim, whom As'enath, the daughter of Poti'phera the priest of On, bore to him.

rsv@Genesis:46:21 @ And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Na'aman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard

rsv@Genesis:46:22 @ (these are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all).

rsv@Genesis:46:23 @ The sons of Dan: Hushim.

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:46:26 @ All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own offspring, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all;

rsv@Genesis:46:27 @ and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.

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:46:29 @ Then Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

rsv@Genesis:46:30 @ Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."

rsv@Genesis:46:31 @ Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, `My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me;

rsv@Genesis:46:32 @ and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

rsv@Genesis:46:33 @ When Pharaoh calls you, and says, `What is your occupation?'

rsv@Genesis:46:34 @ you shall say, `Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."

rsv@Genesis:47:1 @ So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen."

rsv@Genesis:47:2 @ And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.

rsv@Genesis:47:3 @ Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."

rsv@Genesis:47:4 @ They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

rsv@Genesis:47:5 @ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

rsv@Genesis:47:6 @ The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my cattle."

rsv@Genesis:47:7 @ Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

rsv@Genesis:47:8 @ And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

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

rsv@Genesis:47:10 @ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

rsv@Genesis:47:11 @ Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ram'eses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

rsv@Genesis:47:12 @ And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

rsv@Genesis:47:13 @ Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

rsv@Genesis:47:14 @ And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

rsv@Genesis:47:15 @ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us food; why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."

rsv@Genesis:47:16 @ And Joseph answered, "Give your cattle, and I will give you food in exchange for your cattle, if your money is gone."

rsv@Genesis:47:17 @ So they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the asses: and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their cattle that year.

rsv@Genesis:47:18 @ And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

rsv@Genesis:47:19 @ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."

rsv@Genesis:47:20 @ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;

rsv@Genesis:47:21 @ and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

rsv@Genesis:47:22 @ Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

rsv@Genesis:47:23 @ Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

rsv@Genesis:47:24 @ And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."

rsv@Genesis:47:25 @ And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh."

rsv@Genesis:47:26 @ So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

rsv@Genesis:47:27 @ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.

rsv@Genesis:47:28 @ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.

rsv@Genesis:47:29 @ And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh, and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,

rsv@Genesis:47:30 @ but let me lie with my fathers; carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place." He answered, "I will do as you have said."

rsv@Genesis:47:31 @ And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.

rsv@Genesis:48:1 @ After this Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill"; so he took with him his two sons, Manas'seh and E'phraim.

rsv@Genesis:48:2 @ And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you"; then Israel summoned his strength, and sat up in bed.

rsv@Genesis:48:3 @ And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

rsv@Genesis:48:4 @ and said to me, `Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.'

rsv@Genesis:48:5 @ And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; E'phraim and Manas'seh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

rsv@Genesis:48:6 @ And the offspring born to you after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

rsv@Genesis:48:7 @ For when I came from Paddan, Rachel to my sorrow died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

rsv@Genesis:48:8 @ When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?"

rsv@Genesis:48:9 @ Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, I pray you, that I may bless them."

rsv@Genesis:48:10 @ Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him; and he kissed them and embraced them.

rsv@Genesis:48:11 @ And Israel said to Joseph, "I had not thought to see your face; and lo, God has let me see your children also."

rsv@Genesis:48:12 @ Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

rsv@Genesis:48:13 @ And Joseph took them both, E'phraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manas'seh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him.

rsv@Genesis:48:14 @ And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon the head of E'phraim, who was the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manas'seh, crossing his hands, for Manas'seh was the first-born.

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:48:17 @ When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of E'phraim, it displeased him; and he took his father's hand, to remove it from E'phraim's head to Manas'seh's head.

rsv@Genesis:48:18 @ And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this one is the first-born; put your right hand upon his head."

rsv@Genesis:48:19 @ But his father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations."

rsv@Genesis:48:20 @ So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, `God make you as E'phraim and as Manas'seh'"; and thus he put E'phraim before Manas'seh.

rsv@Genesis:48:21 @ Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

rsv@Genesis:48:22 @ Moreover I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope which I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."

rsv@Genesis:49:1 @ Then Jacob called his sons, and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in days to come.

rsv@Genesis:49:2 @ Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father.

rsv@Genesis:49:3 @ Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.

rsv@Genesis:49:4 @ Unstable as water, you shall not have pre-eminence because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it--you went up to my couch!

rsv@Genesis:49:5 @ Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.

rsv@Genesis:49:6 @ O my soul, come not into their council; O my spirit, be not joined to their company; for in their anger they slay men, and in their wantonness they hamstring oxen.

rsv@Genesis:49:7 @ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

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:49:11 @ Binding his foal to the vine and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes;

rsv@Genesis:49:12 @ his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

rsv@Genesis:49:13 @ Zeb'ulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.

rsv@Genesis:49:14 @ Is'sachar is a strong ass, crouching between the sheepfolds;

rsv@Genesis:49:15 @ he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a slave at forced labor.

rsv@Genesis:49:16 @ Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

rsv@Genesis:49:17 @ Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.

rsv@Genesis:49:18 @ I wait for thy salvation, O LORD.

rsv@Genesis:49:19 @ Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.

rsv@Genesis:49:20 @ Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties.

rsv@Genesis:49:21 @ Naph'tali is a hind let loose, that bears comely fawns.

rsv@Genesis:49:22 @ Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.

rsv@Genesis:49:23 @ The archers fiercely attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him sorely;

rsv@Genesis:49:24 @ yet his bow remained unmoved, his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel),

rsv@Genesis:49:25 @ by the God of your father who will help you, by God Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

rsv@Genesis:49:26 @ The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers.

rsv@Genesis:49:27 @ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey, and at even dividing the spoil."

rsv@Genesis:49:28 @ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel; and this is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.

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

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:49:32 @ the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites."

rsv@Genesis:49:33 @ When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

rsv@Genesis:50:1 @ Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.

rsv@Genesis:50:2 @ And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

rsv@Genesis:50:3 @ forty days were required for it, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

rsv@Genesis:50:4 @ And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

rsv@Genesis:50:5 @ My father made me swear, saying, `I am about to die: in my tomb which I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father; then I will return."

rsv@Genesis:50:6 @ And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."

rsv@Genesis:50:7 @ So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

rsv@Genesis:50:8 @ as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household; only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.

rsv@Genesis:50:9 @ And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; it was a very great company.

rsv@Genesis:50:10 @ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

rsv@Genesis:50:11 @ When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named A'bel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.

rsv@Genesis:50:12 @ Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;

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:50:14 @ After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

rsv@Genesis:50:15 @ When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him."

rsv@Genesis:50:16 @ So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died,

rsv@Genesis:50:17 @ `Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, we pray you, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

rsv@Genesis:50:18 @ His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said, "Behold, we are your servants."

rsv@Genesis:50:19 @ But Joseph said to them, "Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

rsv@Genesis:50:20 @ As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

rsv@Genesis:50:21 @ So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he reassured them and comforted them.

rsv@Genesis:50:22 @ So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

rsv@Genesis:50:23 @ And Joseph saw E'phraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manas'seh were born upon Joseph's knees.

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@Genesis:50:25 @ Then Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, "God will visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

rsv@Genesis:50:26 @ So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:1:1 @ These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

rsv@Exodus:1:7 @ But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.

rsv@Exodus:1:10 @ Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."

rsv@Exodus:1:11 @ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.

rsv@Exodus:1:12 @ But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:1:14 @ and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

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:1:17 @ But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

rsv@Exodus:1:18 @ So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?"

rsv@Exodus:1:19 @ The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them."

rsv@Exodus:1:20 @ So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong.

rsv@Exodus:1:21 @ And because the midwives feared God he gave them families.

rsv@Exodus:2:3 @ And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.

rsv@Exodus:2:5 @ Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it.

rsv@Exodus:2:9 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

rsv@Exodus:2:10 @ And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

rsv@Exodus:2:11 @ One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

rsv@Exodus:2:14 @ He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."

rsv@Exodus:2:15 @ When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Mid'ian; and he sat down by a well.

rsv@Exodus:2:16 @ Now the priest of Mid'ian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

rsv@Exodus:2:17 @ The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

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

rsv@Exodus:3:1 @ Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Mid'ian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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

rsv@Exodus:3:4 @ When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here am I."

rsv@Exodus:3:5 @ Then he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground."

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:3:8 @ and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.

rsv@Exodus:3:9 @ And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

rsv@Exodus:3:11 @ But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?"

rsv@Exodus:3:13 @ Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, `The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, `What is his name?' what shall I say to them?"

rsv@Exodus:3:14 @ God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, `I AM has sent me to you.'"

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:3:17 @ and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'

rsv@Exodus:3:18 @ And they will hearken to your voice; and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, `The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, we pray you, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'

rsv@Exodus:3:19 @ I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.

rsv@Exodus:3:22 @ but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who sojourns in her house, jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; thus you shall despoil the Egyptians."

rsv@Exodus:4:1 @ Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, `The LORD did not appear to you.'"

rsv@Exodus:4:3 @ And he said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

rsv@Exodus:4:4 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your hand, and take it by the tail"-- so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand--

rsv@Exodus:4:7 @ Then God said, "Put your hand back into your bosom." So he put his hand back into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

rsv@Exodus:4:9 @ If they will not believe even these two signs or heed your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it upon the dry ground; and the water which you shall take from the Nile will become blood upon the dry ground."

rsv@Exodus:4:10 @ But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either heretofore or since thou hast spoken to thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of tongue."

rsv@Exodus:4:11 @ Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

rsv@Exodus:4:14 @ Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

rsv@Exodus:4:18 @ Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

rsv@Exodus:4:19 @ And the LORD said to Moses in Mid'ian, "Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

rsv@Exodus:4:20 @ So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.

rsv@Exodus:4:21 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

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:4:27 @ The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

rsv@Exodus:4:28 @ And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do.

rsv@Exodus:4:29 @ Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:4:30 @ And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

rsv@Exodus:5:1 @ Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

rsv@Exodus:5:3 @ Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us; let us go, we pray, a three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword."

rsv@Exodus:5:4 @ But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get to your burdens."

rsv@Exodus:5:5 @ And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens!"

rsv@Exodus:5:7 @ "You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

rsv@Exodus:5:8 @ But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, `Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.'

rsv@Exodus:5:11 @ Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"

rsv@Exodus:5:19 @ The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in evil plight, when they said, "You shall by no means lessen your daily number of bricks."

rsv@Exodus:5:20 @ They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came forth from Pharaoh;

rsv@Exodus:5:22 @ Then Moses turned again to the LORD and said, "O LORD, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me?

rsv@Exodus:6:1 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, yea, with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land."

rsv@Exodus:6:2 @ And God said to Moses, "I am the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:6:4 @ I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.

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:6:9 @ Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.

rsv@Exodus:6:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:6:12 @ But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips?"

rsv@Exodus:6:13 @ But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a charge to the people of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:6:14 @ These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

rsv@Exodus:6:15 @ The sons of Simeon: Jemu'el, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

rsv@Exodus:6:16 @ These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merar'i, the years of the life of Levi being a hundred and thirty-seven years.

rsv@Exodus:6:17 @ The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shim'e-i, by their families.

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:6:20 @ Amram took to wife Joch'ebed his father's sister and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being one hundred and thirty-seven years.

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

rsv@Exodus:6:25 @ Elea'zar, Aaron's son, took to wife one of the daughters of Pu'ti-el; and she bore him Phin'ehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by their families.

rsv@Exodus:6:26 @ These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: "Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts."

rsv@Exodus:6:27 @ It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.

rsv@Exodus:6:28 @ On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

rsv@Exodus:6:29 @ the LORD said to Moses, "I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you."

rsv@Exodus:6:30 @ But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me?"

rsv@Exodus:7:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

rsv@Exodus:7:6 @ And Moses and Aaron did so; they did as the LORD commanded them.

rsv@Exodus:7:7 @ Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty- three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

rsv@Exodus:7:8 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Exodus:7:9 @ "When Pharaoh says to you, `Prove yourselves by working a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron, `Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.'"

rsv@Exodus:7:10 @ So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD commanded; Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

rsv@Exodus:7:14 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.

rsv@Exodus:7:16 @ And you shall say to him, `The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; and behold, you have not yet obeyed."

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

rsv@Exodus:7:20 @ Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood.

rsv@Exodus:8:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

rsv@Exodus:8:3 @ the Nile shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house, and into your bedchamber and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and of your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls;

rsv@Exodus:8:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come upon the land of Egypt!'"

rsv@Exodus:8:8 @ Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat the LORD to take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."

rsv@Exodus:8:9 @ Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when I am to entreat, for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."

rsv@Exodus:8:10 @ And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as you say, that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.

rsv@Exodus:8:11 @ The frogs shall depart from you and your houses and your servants and your people; they shall be left only in the Nile."

rsv@Exodus:8:12 @ So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried to the LORD concerning the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.

rsv@Exodus:8:13 @ And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; the frogs died out of the houses and courtyards and out of the fields.

rsv@Exodus:8:15 @ But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

rsv@Exodus:8:16 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

rsv@Exodus:8:20 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and wait for Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

rsv@Exodus:8:21 @ Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.

rsv@Exodus:8:22 @ But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

rsv@Exodus:8:24 @ And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies.

rsv@Exodus:8:25 @ Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

rsv@Exodus:8:26 @ But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so; for we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God offerings abominable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

rsv@Exodus:8:27 @ We must go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he will command us."

rsv@Exodus:8:28 @ So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Make entreaty for me."

rsv@Exodus:8:29 @ Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."

rsv@Exodus:8:30 @ So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:8:31 @ And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.

rsv@Exodus:9:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

rsv@Exodus:9:3 @ behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your cattle which are in the field, the horses, the asses, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

rsv@Exodus:9:7 @ And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the cattle of the Israelites was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

rsv@Exodus:9:8 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from the kiln, and let Moses throw them toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

rsv@Exodus:9:9 @ And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt."

rsv@Exodus:9:10 @ So they took ashes from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw them toward heaven, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.

rsv@Exodus:9:11 @ And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

rsv@Exodus:9:12 @ But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them; as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

rsv@Exodus:9:13 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, `Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

rsv@Exodus:9:14 @ For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

rsv@Exodus:9:15 @ For by now I could have put forth my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

rsv@Exodus:9:20 @ Then he who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his slaves and his cattle flee into the houses;

rsv@Exodus:9:21 @ but he who did not regard the word of the LORD left his slaves and his cattle in the field.

rsv@Exodus:9:22 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man and beast and every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."

rsv@Exodus:9:23 @ Then Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt;

rsv@Exodus:9:27 @ Then Pharaoh sent, and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

rsv@Exodus:9:29 @ Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.

rsv@Exodus:9:33 @ So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and stretched out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.

rsv@Exodus:9:35 @ So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken through Moses.

rsv@Exodus:10:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,

rsv@Exodus:10:3 @ So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, `How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

rsv@Exodus:10:6 @ and they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.'" Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

rsv@Exodus:10:8 @ So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh; and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God; but who are to go?"

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

rsv@Exodus:10:10 @ And he said to them, "The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.

rsv@Exodus:10:11 @ No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desire." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

rsv@Exodus:10:12 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left."

rsv@Exodus:10:13 @ So Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

rsv@Exodus:10:15 @ For they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:10:16 @ Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

rsv@Exodus:10:19 @ And the LORD turned a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:10:21 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt."

rsv@Exodus:10:22 @ So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

rsv@Exodus:10:24 @ Then Pharaoh called Moses, and said, "Go, serve the LORD; your children also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind."

rsv@Exodus:10:25 @ But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

rsv@Exodus:10:29 @ Moses said, "As you say! I will not see your face again."

rsv@Exodus:11:1 @ The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.

rsv@Exodus:11:3 @ And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.

rsv@Exodus:11:4 @ And Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go forth in the midst of Egypt;

rsv@Exodus:11:7 @ But against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, not a dog shall growl; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

rsv@Exodus:11:8 @ And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down to me, saying, `Get you out, and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

rsv@Exodus:11:9 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."

rsv@Exodus:11:10 @ Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

rsv@Exodus:12:1 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

rsv@Exodus:12:3 @ Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

rsv@Exodus:12:7 @ Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.

rsv@Exodus:12:8 @ They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

rsv@Exodus:12:13 @ The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:12:15 @ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses, for if any one eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

rsv@Exodus:12:19 @ For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.

rsv@Exodus:12:21 @ Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.

rsv@Exodus:12:23 @ For the LORD will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you.

rsv@Exodus:12:27 @ you shall say, `It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

rsv@Exodus:12:28 @ Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

rsv@Exodus:12:31 @ And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, go forth from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.

rsv@Exodus:12:32 @ Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

rsv@Exodus:12:34 @ So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their mantles on their shoulders.

rsv@Exodus:12:35 @ The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked of the Egyptians jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing;

rsv@Exodus:12:36 @ and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they despoiled the Egyptians.

rsv@Exodus:12:37 @ And the people of Israel journeyed from Ram'eses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

rsv@Exodus:12:39 @ And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions.

rsv@Exodus:12:43 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the passover: no foreigner shall eat of it;

rsv@Exodus:12:46 @ In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth any of the flesh outside the house; and you shall not break a bone of it.

rsv@Exodus:12:48 @ And when a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

rsv@Exodus:12:50 @ Thus did all the people of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

rsv@Exodus:13:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

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

rsv@Exodus:13:5 @ And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.

rsv@Exodus:13:9 @ And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:13:11 @ "And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,

rsv@Exodus:13:12 @ you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstlings of your cattle that are males shall be the LORD's.

rsv@Exodus:13:14 @ And when in time to come your son asks you, `What does this mean?' you shall say to him, `By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

rsv@Exodus:13:15 @ For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man and the first-born of cattle. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.'

rsv@Exodus:13:16 @ It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes; for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt."

rsv@Exodus:13:17 @ When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt."

rsv@Exodus:13:18 @ But God led the people round by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

rsv@Exodus:13:19 @ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, "God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here."

rsv@Exodus:13:20 @ And they moved on from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.

rsv@Exodus:14:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:14:3 @ For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, `They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.'

rsv@Exodus:14:9 @ The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-ha-hi'roth, in front of Ba'al-ze'phon.

rsv@Exodus:14:10 @ When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were in great fear. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD;

rsv@Exodus:14:11 @ and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt?

rsv@Exodus:14:12 @ Is not this what we said to you in Egypt, `Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness."

rsv@Exodus:14:13 @ And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

rsv@Exodus:14:15 @ The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.

rsv@Exodus:14:20 @ coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night.

rsv@Exodus:14:21 @ Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

rsv@Exodus:14:23 @ The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

rsv@Exodus:14:26 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen."

rsv@Exodus:14:27 @ So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

rsv@Exodus:14:31 @ And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

rsv@Exodus:15:1 @ Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

rsv@Exodus:15:7 @ In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.

rsv@Exodus:15:9 @ The enemy said, `I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

rsv@Exodus:15:11 @ "Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

rsv@Exodus:15:14 @ The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia.

rsv@Exodus:15:15 @ Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

rsv@Exodus:15:16 @ Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased.

rsv@Exodus:15:17 @ Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.

rsv@Exodus:15:19 @ For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

rsv@Exodus:15:20 @ Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing.

rsv@Exodus:15:22 @ Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur; they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

rsv@Exodus:15:24 @ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

rsv@Exodus:15:26 @ saying, "If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your healer."

rsv@Exodus:15:27 @ Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water.

rsv@Exodus:16:1 @ They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:16:2 @ And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

rsv@Exodus:16:3 @ and said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

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

rsv@Exodus:16:6 @ So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, "At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

rsv@Exodus:16:8 @ And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your murmurings which you murmur against him--what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against the LORD."

rsv@Exodus:16:9 @ And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, `Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

rsv@Exodus:16:10 @ And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

rsv@Exodus:16:11 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:16:12 @ "I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel; say to them, `At twilight you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'"

rsv@Exodus:16:14 @ And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as hoarfrost on the ground.

rsv@Exodus:16:15 @ When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

rsv@Exodus:16:17 @ And the people of Israel did so; they gathered, some more, some less.

rsv@Exodus:16:19 @ And Moses said to them, "Let no man leave any of it till the morning."

rsv@Exodus:16:20 @ But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

rsv@Exodus:16:22 @ On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers apiece; and when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

rsv@Exodus:16:23 @ he said to them, "This is what the LORD has commanded: `Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay by to be kept till the morning.'"

rsv@Exodus:16:24 @ So they laid it by till the morning, as Moses bade them; and it did not become foul, and there were no worms in it.

rsv@Exodus:16:25 @ Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

rsv@Exodus:16:28 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

rsv@Exodus:16:29 @ See! The LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days; remain every man of you in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."

rsv@Exodus:16:30 @ So the people rested on the seventh day.

rsv@Exodus:16:32 @ And Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: `Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

rsv@Exodus:16:33 @ And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations."

rsv@Exodus:16:34 @ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony, to be kept.

rsv@Exodus:17:1 @ All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Reph'idim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

rsv@Exodus:17:2 @ Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the LORD to the proof?"

rsv@Exodus:17:3 @ But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

rsv@Exodus:17:4 @ So Moses cried to the LORD, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me."

rsv@Exodus:17:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go.

rsv@Exodus:17:6 @ Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:17:9 @ And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Am'alek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand."

rsv@Exodus:17:10 @ So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Am'alek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

rsv@Exodus:17:11 @ Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and whenever he lowered his hand, Am'alek prevailed.

rsv@Exodus:17:12 @ But Moses' hands grew weary; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

rsv@Exodus:17:14 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Am'alek from under heaven."

rsv@Exodus:17:15 @ And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD is my banner,

rsv@Exodus:18:1 @ Jethro, the priest of Mid'ian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

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

rsv@Exodus:18:5 @ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

rsv@Exodus:18:6 @ And when one told Moses, "Lo, your father-in-law Jethro is coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,"

rsv@Exodus:18:7 @ Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and went into the tent.

rsv@Exodus:18:8 @ Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

rsv@Exodus:18:10 @ And Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh.

rsv@Exodus:18:12 @ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, offered a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

rsv@Exodus:18:13 @ On the morrow Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from morning till evening.

rsv@Exodus:18:14 @ When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand about you from morning till evening?"

rsv@Exodus:18:15 @ And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God;

rsv@Exodus:18:16 @ when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God and his decisions."

rsv@Exodus:18:17 @ Moses' father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not good.

rsv@Exodus:18:18 @ You and the people with you will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.

rsv@Exodus:18:19 @ Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God, and bring their cases to God;

rsv@Exodus:18:20 @ and you shall teach them the statutes and the decisions, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.

rsv@Exodus:18:21 @ Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

rsv@Exodus:18:22 @ And let them judge the people at all times; every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves; so it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

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

rsv@Exodus:18:25 @ Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

rsv@Exodus:18:26 @ And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.

rsv@Exodus:18:27 @ Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own country.

rsv@Exodus:19:1 @ On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

rsv@Exodus:19:2 @ And when they set out from Reph'idim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

rsv@Exodus:19:3 @ And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:

rsv@Exodus:19:4 @ You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.

rsv@Exodus:19:5 @ Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine,

rsv@Exodus:19:6 @ and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

rsv@Exodus:19:7 @ So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.

rsv@Exodus:19:8 @ And all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." And Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:19:9 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Lo, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you for ever." Then Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:19:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

rsv@Exodus:19:12 @ And you shall set bounds for the people round about, saying, `Take heed that you do not go up into the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death;

rsv@Exodus:19:14 @ So Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.

rsv@Exodus:19:17 @ Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

rsv@Exodus:19:18 @ And Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

rsv@Exodus:19:19 @ And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.

rsv@Exodus:19:20 @ And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

rsv@Exodus:19:21 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze and many of them perish.

rsv@Exodus:19:22 @ And also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out upon them."

rsv@Exodus:19:23 @ And Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou thyself didst charge us, saying, `Set bounds about the mountain, and consecrate it.'"

rsv@Exodus:19:24 @ And the LORD said to him, "Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them."

rsv@Exodus:19:25 @ So Moses went down to the people and told them.

rsv@Exodus:20:1 @ And God spoke all these words, saying,

rsv@Exodus:20:4 @ "You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

rsv@Exodus:20:7 @ "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

rsv@Exodus:20:10 @ but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates;

rsv@Exodus:20:11 @ for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

rsv@Exodus:20:12 @ "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

rsv@Exodus:20:16 @ "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

rsv@Exodus:20:19 @ and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will hear; but let not God speak to us, lest we die."

rsv@Exodus:20:20 @ And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to prove you, and that the fear of him may be before your eyes, that you may not sin."

rsv@Exodus:20:21 @ And the people stood afar off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

rsv@Exodus:20:22 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: `You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.

rsv@Exodus:20:23 @ You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

rsv@Exodus:20:24 @ An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

rsv@Exodus:20:25 @ And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you wield your tool upon it you profane it.

rsv@Exodus:20:26 @ And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.'

rsv@Exodus:21:1 @ "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

rsv@Exodus:21:3 @ If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

rsv@Exodus:21:4 @ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone.

rsv@Exodus:21:7 @ "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

rsv@Exodus:21:8 @ If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her.

rsv@Exodus:21:9 @ If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.

rsv@Exodus:21:10 @ If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

rsv@Exodus:21:11 @ And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

rsv@Exodus:21:12 @ "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:21:15 @ "Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:21:16 @ "Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or is found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:21:17 @ "Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:21:18 @ "When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed,

rsv@Exodus:21:19 @ then if the man rises again and walks abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.

rsv@Exodus:21:20 @ "When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.

rsv@Exodus:21:21 @ But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.

rsv@Exodus:21:22 @ "When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

rsv@Exodus:21:26 @ "When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake.

rsv@Exodus:21:28 @ "When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear.

rsv@Exodus:21:31 @ If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.

rsv@Exodus:21:32 @ If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

rsv@Exodus:21:33 @ "When a man leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it,

rsv@Exodus:21:35 @ "When one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it; and the dead beast also they shall divide.

rsv@Exodus:22:1 @ "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. He shall make restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or an ass or a sheep, "If a thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him;

rsv@Exodus:22:2 @ but if the sun has risen upon him, there shall be "When a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.

rsv@Exodus:22:3 @ "When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution.

rsv@Exodus:22:6 @ "For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, `This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

rsv@Exodus:22:7 @ "If a man delivers to his neighbor an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away, without any one seeing it,

rsv@Exodus:22:8 @ an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's property; and the owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.

rsv@Exodus:22:9 @ But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

rsv@Exodus:22:10 @ If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn.

rsv@Exodus:22:11 @ "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.

rsv@Exodus:22:12 @ If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

rsv@Exodus:22:13 @ "If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife.

rsv@Exodus:22:14 @ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins.

rsv@Exodus:22:15 @ "You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

rsv@Exodus:22:16 @ "Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:22:17 @ "Whoever sacrifices to any god, save to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

rsv@Exodus:22:18 @ "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:22:21 @ and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

rsv@Exodus:22:22 @ "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him.

rsv@Exodus:22:23 @ If ever you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;

rsv@Exodus:22:24 @ for that is his only covering, it is his mantle for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

rsv@Exodus:22:26 @ "You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. "The first-born of your sons you shall give to me.

rsv@Exodus:22:28 @ "You shall be men consecrated to me; therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs.

rsv@Exodus:23:1 @ "You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.

rsv@Exodus:23:2 @ You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice;

rsv@Exodus:23:5 @ If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up.

rsv@Exodus:23:9 @ "You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the heart of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

rsv@Exodus:23:11 @ but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

rsv@Exodus:23:12 @ "Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.

rsv@Exodus:23:13 @ Take heed to all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let such be heard out of your mouth.

rsv@Exodus:23:14 @ "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.

rsv@Exodus:23:16 @ You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

rsv@Exodus:23:17 @ Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.

rsv@Exodus:23:21 @ Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.

rsv@Exodus:23:22 @ "But if you hearken attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

rsv@Exodus:23:23 @ "When my angel goes before you, and brings you in to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Per'izzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, and I blot them out,

rsv@Exodus:23:24 @ you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

rsv@Exodus:23:25 @ You shall serve the LORD your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

rsv@Exodus:23:27 @ I will send my terror before you, and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

rsv@Exodus:23:29 @ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.

rsv@Exodus:23:30 @ Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased and possess the land.

rsv@Exodus:23:31 @ And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphra'tes; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

rsv@Exodus:23:33 @ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

rsv@Exodus:24:1 @ And he said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi'hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship afar off.

rsv@Exodus:24:2 @ Moses alone shall come near to the LORD; but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him."

rsv@Exodus:24:3 @ Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do."

rsv@Exodus:24:4 @ And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:24:6 @ And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.

rsv@Exodus:24:8 @ And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

rsv@Exodus:24:9 @ Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abi'hu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up,

rsv@Exodus:24:10 @ and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

rsv@Exodus:24:12 @ The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tables of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction."

rsv@Exodus:24:13 @ So Moses rose with his servant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

rsv@Exodus:24:15 @ Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

rsv@Exodus:24:16 @ The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

rsv@Exodus:24:18 @ And Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

rsv@Exodus:25:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:25:2 @ "Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me an offering; from every man whose heart makes him willing you shall receive the offering for me.

rsv@Exodus:25:6 @ oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

rsv@Exodus:25:7 @ onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

rsv@Exodus:25:13 @ You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

rsv@Exodus:25:14 @ And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them.

rsv@Exodus:25:15 @ The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.

rsv@Exodus:25:16 @ And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

rsv@Exodus:25:20 @ The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.

rsv@Exodus:25:21 @ And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark; and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.

rsv@Exodus:25:22 @ There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you of all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:25:27 @ Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

rsv@Exodus:25:28 @ You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.

rsv@Exodus:25:29 @ And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour libations; of pure gold you shall make them.

rsv@Exodus:25:30 @ And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always.

rsv@Exodus:25:32 @ and there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;

rsv@Exodus:25:33 @ three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other branch--so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

rsv@Exodus:25:35 @ and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand.

rsv@Exodus:25:36 @ Their capitals and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

rsv@Exodus:25:39 @ Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these utensils.

rsv@Exodus:26:9 @ And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent.

rsv@Exodus:26:13 @ And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.

rsv@Exodus:26:15 @ "And you shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

rsv@Exodus:26:17 @ There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together; so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.

rsv@Exodus:26:18 @ You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;

rsv@Exodus:26:19 @ and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons;

rsv@Exodus:26:20 @ and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,

rsv@Exodus:26:21 @ and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame;

rsv@Exodus:26:22 @ and for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames.

rsv@Exodus:26:23 @ And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;

rsv@Exodus:26:25 @ And there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.

rsv@Exodus:26:26 @ "And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,

rsv@Exodus:26:27 @ and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

rsv@Exodus:26:28 @ The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall pass through from end to end.

rsv@Exodus:26:29 @ You shall overlay the frames with gold, and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

rsv@Exodus:26:32 @ and you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, upon four bases of silver.

rsv@Exodus:26:33 @ And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in thither within the veil; and the veil shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy.

rsv@Exodus:26:34 @ You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

rsv@Exodus:26:37 @ And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.

rsv@Exodus:27:3 @ You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.

rsv@Exodus:27:6 @ And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze;

rsv@Exodus:27:7 @ and the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles shall be upon the two sides of the altar, when it is carried.

rsv@Exodus:27:10 @ their pillars shall be twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

rsv@Exodus:27:11 @ And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

rsv@Exodus:27:12 @ And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.

rsv@Exodus:27:14 @ The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.

rsv@Exodus:27:15 @ On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.

rsv@Exodus:27:16 @ For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.

rsv@Exodus:27:17 @ All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze.

rsv@Exodus:27:18 @ The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twined linen and bases of bronze.

rsv@Exodus:27:21 @ In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute for ever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:28:1 @ "Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests--Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abi'hu, Elea'zar and Ith'amar.

rsv@Exodus:28:3 @ And you shall speak to all who have ability, whom I have endowed with an able mind, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.

rsv@Exodus:28:4 @ These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a girdle; they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.

rsv@Exodus:28:7 @ It shall have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges, that it may be joined together.

rsv@Exodus:28:9 @ And you shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

rsv@Exodus:28:10 @ six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

rsv@Exodus:28:11 @ As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; you shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.

rsv@Exodus:28:12 @ And you shall set the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for remembrance.

rsv@Exodus:28:17 @ And you shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;

rsv@Exodus:28:21 @ There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

rsv@Exodus:28:23 @ and you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.

rsv@Exodus:28:24 @ And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece;

rsv@Exodus:28:25 @ the two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.

rsv@Exodus:28:27 @ And you shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.

rsv@Exodus:28:29 @ So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment upon his heart, when he goes into the holy place, to bring them to continual remembrance before the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:28:30 @ And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD; thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

rsv@Exodus:28:33 @ On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, around its skirts, with bells of gold between them,

rsv@Exodus:28:35 @ And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, lest he die.

rsv@Exodus:28:40 @ "And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats and girdles and caps; you shall make them for glory and beauty.

rsv@Exodus:28:41 @ And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

rsv@Exodus:28:42 @ And you shall make for them linen breeches to cover their naked flesh; from the loins to the thighs they shall reach;

rsv@Exodus:28:43 @ and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place; lest they bring guilt upon themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.

rsv@Exodus:29:1 @ "Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

rsv@Exodus:29:2 @ and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.

rsv@Exodus:29:9 @ and you shall gird them with girdles and bind caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

rsv@Exodus:29:12 @ and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

rsv@Exodus:29:14 @ But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

rsv@Exodus:29:17 @ Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,

rsv@Exodus:29:20 @ and you shall kill the ram, and take part of its blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tips of the right ears of his sons, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the altar round about.

rsv@Exodus:29:24 @ and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:29:27 @ And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the priests' portion, which is waved, and which is offered from the ram of ordination, since it is for Aaron and for his sons.

rsv@Exodus:29:28 @ It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is the priests' portion to be offered by the people of Israel from their peace offerings; it is their offering to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:29:30 @ The son who is priest in his place shall wear them seven days, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.

rsv@Exodus:29:31 @ "You shall take the ram of ordination, and boil its flesh in a holy place;

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

rsv@Exodus:29:34 @ And if any of the flesh for the ordination, or of the bread, remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

rsv@Exodus:29:37 @ Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.

rsv@Exodus:29:44 @ I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests.

rsv@Exodus:30:3 @ And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns; and you shall make for it a molding of gold round about.

rsv@Exodus:30:4 @ And two golden rings shall you make for it; under its molding on two opposite sides of it shall you make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

rsv@Exodus:30:5 @ You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

rsv@Exodus:30:6 @ And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

rsv@Exodus:30:7 @ And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it,

rsv@Exodus:30:11 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:30:15 @ The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make atonement for yourselves.

rsv@Exodus:30:16 @ And you shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for yourselves."

rsv@Exodus:30:17 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:30:20 @ When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, lest they die.

rsv@Exodus:30:21 @ They shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die: it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

rsv@Exodus:30:22 @ Moreover, the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:30:23 @ "Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty, and of aromatic cane two hundred and fifty,

rsv@Exodus:30:25 @ and you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; a holy anointing oil it shall be.

rsv@Exodus:30:26 @ And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,

rsv@Exodus:30:29 @ you shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.

rsv@Exodus:30:30 @ And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

rsv@Exodus:30:32 @ It shall not be poured upon the bodies of ordinary men, and you shall make no other like it in composition; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

rsv@Exodus:30:34 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

rsv@Exodus:30:36 @ and you shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you; it shall be for you most holy.

rsv@Exodus:30:37 @ And the incense which you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves; it shall be for you holy to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:30:38 @ Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people."

rsv@Exodus:31:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:31:4 @ to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

rsv@Exodus:31:5 @ in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every craft.

rsv@Exodus:31:7 @ the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereon, and all the furnishings of the tent,

rsv@Exodus:31:10 @ and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests,

rsv@Exodus:31:12 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:31:14 @ You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; every one who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

rsv@Exodus:31:15 @ Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:31:17 @ It is a sign for ever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

rsv@Exodus:31:18 @ And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

rsv@Exodus:32:1 @ When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Up, make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

rsv@Exodus:32:2 @ And Aaron said to them, "Take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

rsv@Exodus:32:4 @ And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"

rsv@Exodus:32:7 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;

rsv@Exodus:32:8 @ they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'"

rsv@Exodus:32:9 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;

rsv@Exodus:32:11 @ But Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, "O LORD, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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:32:15 @ And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain with the two tables of the testimony in his hands, tables that were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

rsv@Exodus:32:16 @ And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

rsv@Exodus:32:17 @ When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a noise of war in the camp."

rsv@Exodus:32:19 @ And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

rsv@Exodus:32:21 @ And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon them?"

rsv@Exodus:32:23 @ For they said to me, `Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

rsv@Exodus:32:25 @ And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to their shame among their enemies),

rsv@Exodus:32:26 @ then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Who is on the LORD's side? Come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

rsv@Exodus:32:28 @ And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

rsv@Exodus:32:29 @ And Moses said, "Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day."

rsv@Exodus:32:30 @ On the morrow Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."

rsv@Exodus:32:31 @ So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Alas, this people have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold.

rsv@Exodus:32:33 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

rsv@Exodus:32:34 @ But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."

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:33:2 @ And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.

rsv@Exodus:33:3 @ Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you in the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."

rsv@Exodus:33:4 @ When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.

rsv@Exodus:33:5 @ For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, `You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.'"

rsv@Exodus:33:6 @ Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

rsv@Exodus:33:7 @ Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp; and he called it the tent of meeting. And every one who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.

rsv@Exodus:33:8 @ Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose up, and every man stood at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he had gone into the tent.

rsv@Exodus:33:9 @ When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

rsv@Exodus:33:11 @ Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

rsv@Exodus:33:12 @ Moses said to the LORD, "See, thou sayest to me, `Bring up this people'; but thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, `I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'

rsv@Exodus:33:14 @ And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

rsv@Exodus:33:15 @ And he said to him, "If thy presence will not go with me, do not carry us up from here.

rsv@Exodus:33:17 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

rsv@Exodus:33:18 @ Moses said, "I pray thee, show me thy glory."

rsv@Exodus:33:19 @ And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name `The LORD'; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

rsv@Exodus:33:22 @ and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

rsv@Exodus:34:1 @ The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two tables of stone like the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.

rsv@Exodus:34:2 @ Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

rsv@Exodus:34:4 @ So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.

rsv@Exodus:34:5 @ And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:34:6 @ The LORD passed before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

rsv@Exodus:34:7 @ keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

rsv@Exodus:34:8 @ And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

rsv@Exodus:34:11 @ "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.

rsv@Exodus:34:12 @ Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.

rsv@Exodus:34:15 @ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his sacrifice,

rsv@Exodus:34:21 @ "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

rsv@Exodus:34:22 @ And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

rsv@Exodus:34:23 @ Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:34:24 @ For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

rsv@Exodus:34:27 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

rsv@Exodus:34:28 @ And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

rsv@Exodus:34:29 @ When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

rsv@Exodus:34:30 @ And when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

rsv@Exodus:34:31 @ But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

rsv@Exodus:34:33 @ And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face;

rsv@Exodus:34:34 @ but whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,

rsv@Exodus:34:35 @ the people of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and Moses would put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

rsv@Exodus:35:1 @ Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel, and said to them, "These are the things which the LORD has commanded you to do.

rsv@Exodus:35:2 @ Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death;

rsv@Exodus:35:4 @ Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

rsv@Exodus:35:8 @ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

rsv@Exodus:35:9 @ and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

rsv@Exodus:35:11 @ its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

rsv@Exodus:35:12 @ the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;

rsv@Exodus:35:13 @ the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;

rsv@Exodus:35:15 @ and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

rsv@Exodus:35:16 @ the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver and its base;

rsv@Exodus:35:17 @ the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;

rsv@Exodus:35:19 @ the finely wrought garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests."

rsv@Exodus:35:20 @ Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

rsv@Exodus:35:22 @ So they came, both men and women; all who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:35:27 @ And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,

rsv@Exodus:35:28 @ and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.

rsv@Exodus:35:29 @ All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work which the LORD had commanded by Moses to be done, brought it as their freewill offering to the LORD.

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:35:32 @ to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze,

rsv@Exodus:35:33 @ in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.

rsv@Exodus:35:35 @ He has filled them with ability to do every sort of work done by a craftsman or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, or by a weaver--by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

rsv@Exodus:36:2 @ And Moses called Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man in whose mind the LORD had put ability, every one whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work;

rsv@Exodus:36:3 @ and they received from Moses all the freewill offering which the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,

rsv@Exodus:36:5 @ and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the LORD has commanded us to do."

rsv@Exodus:36:6 @ So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do anything more for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing;

rsv@Exodus:36:16 @ He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

rsv@Exodus:36:20 @ Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

rsv@Exodus:36:22 @ Each frame had two tenons, for fitting together; he did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.

rsv@Exodus:36:23 @ The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side;

rsv@Exodus:36:24 @ and he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under another frame for its two tenons.

rsv@Exodus:36:25 @ And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames

rsv@Exodus:36:26 @ and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under another frame.

rsv@Exodus:36:27 @ And for the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.

rsv@Exodus:36:28 @ And he made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.

rsv@Exodus:36:30 @ There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.

rsv@Exodus:36:31 @ And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,

rsv@Exodus:36:32 @ and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

rsv@Exodus:36:33 @ And he made the middle bar to pass through from end to end halfway up the frames.

rsv@Exodus:36:34 @ And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

rsv@Exodus:36:36 @ And for it he made four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.

rsv@Exodus:36:38 @ and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.

rsv@Exodus:37:4 @ And he made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold,

rsv@Exodus:37:5 @ and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark.

rsv@Exodus:37:9 @ The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.

rsv@Exodus:37:14 @ Close to the frame were the rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

rsv@Exodus:37:15 @ He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table, and overlaid them with gold.

rsv@Exodus:37:16 @ And he made the vessels of pure gold which were to be upon the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour libations.

rsv@Exodus:37:18 @ And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;

rsv@Exodus:37:19 @ three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almonds, each with capital and flower, on the other branch --so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

rsv@Exodus:37:21 @ and a capital of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out of it.

rsv@Exodus:37:22 @ Their capitals and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

rsv@Exodus:37:26 @ He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, and its sides round about, and its horns; and he made a molding of gold round about it,

rsv@Exodus:37:27 @ and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it.

rsv@Exodus:37:28 @ And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

rsv@Exodus:38:5 @ He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles;

rsv@Exodus:38:6 @ he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.

rsv@Exodus:38:7 @ And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; he made it hollow, with boards.

rsv@Exodus:38:10 @ their pillars were twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

rsv@Exodus:38:11 @ And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

rsv@Exodus:38:12 @ And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

rsv@Exodus:38:14 @ The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.

rsv@Exodus:38:15 @ And so for the other side; on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with three pillars and three bases.

rsv@Exodus:38:17 @ And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; the overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

rsv@Exodus:38:18 @ And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

rsv@Exodus:38:19 @ And their pillars were four; their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.

rsv@Exodus:38:21 @ This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted at the commandment of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ith'amar the son of Aaron the priest.

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@Exodus:38:27 @ The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary, and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent for a base.

rsv@Exodus:38:30 @ with it he made the bases for the door of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar,

rsv@Exodus:38:31 @ the bases round about the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs round about the court.

rsv@Exodus:39:1 @ And of the blue and purple and scarlet stuff they made finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place; they made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:3 @ And gold leaf was hammered out and cut into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet stuff, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design.

rsv@Exodus:39:4 @ They made for the ephod shoulder-pieces, joined to it at its two edges.

rsv@Exodus:39:5 @ And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, was of the same materials and workmanship, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:6 @ The onyx stones were prepared, enclosed in settings of gold filigree and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.

rsv@Exodus:39:7 @ And he set them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:10 @ And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;

rsv@Exodus:39:14 @ There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel; they were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

rsv@Exodus:39:16 @ and they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece;

rsv@Exodus:39:17 @ and they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.

rsv@Exodus:39:18 @ Two ends of the two cords they had attached to the two settings of filigree; thus they attached it in front to the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.

rsv@Exodus:39:20 @ And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod, at its joining above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.

rsv@Exodus:39:21 @ And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:24 @ On the skirts of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen.

rsv@Exodus:39:25 @ They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates;

rsv@Exodus:39:26 @ a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about upon the skirts of the robe for ministering; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:28 @ and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

rsv@Exodus:39:29 @ and the girdle of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, embroidered with needlework; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:31 @ And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:39:32 @ Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished; and the people of Israel had done according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; so had they done.

rsv@Exodus:39:33 @ And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

rsv@Exodus:39:35 @ the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;

rsv@Exodus:39:36 @ the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;

rsv@Exodus:39:39 @ the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the laver and its base;

rsv@Exodus:39:40 @ the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

rsv@Exodus:39:41 @ the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.

rsv@Exodus:39:42 @ According to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work.

rsv@Exodus:39:43 @ And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.

rsv@Exodus:40:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:40:3 @ And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

rsv@Exodus:40:5 @ And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.

rsv@Exodus:40:13 @ and put upon Aaron the holy garments, and you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.

rsv@Exodus:40:15 @ and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests: and their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."

rsv@Exodus:40:16 @ Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.

rsv@Exodus:40:18 @ Moses erected the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars;

rsv@Exodus:40:19 @ and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:20 @ And he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above on the ark;

rsv@Exodus:40:21 @ and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:23 @ and set the bread in order on it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:25 @ and set up the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:27 @ and burnt fragrant incense upon it; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:29 @ And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the cereal offering; as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:31 @ with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet;

rsv@Exodus:40:32 @ when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:33 @ And he erected the court round the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

rsv@Exodus:40:35 @ And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

rsv@Leviticus:1:1 @ The LORD called Moses, and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,

rsv@Leviticus:1:5 @ Then he shall kill the bull before the LORD; and Aaron's sons the priests shall present the blood, and throw the blood round about against the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:1:6 @ And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces;

rsv@Leviticus:1:7 @ and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire;

rsv@Leviticus:1:8 @ and Aaron's sons the priests shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

rsv@Leviticus:1:9 @ but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:1:11 @ and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

rsv@Leviticus:1:12 @ And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall lay them in order upon the wood that is on the fire upon the altar;

rsv@Leviticus:1:13 @ but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:1:14 @ "If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or of young pigeons.

rsv@Leviticus:1:15 @ And the priest shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;

rsv@Leviticus:1:16 @ and he shall take away its crop with the feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes;

rsv@Leviticus:1:17 @ he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it asunder. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:2:2 @ and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense; and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion upon the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:2:4 @ "When you bring a cereal offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.

rsv@Leviticus:2:6 @ you shall break it in pieces, and pour oil on it; it is a cereal offering.

rsv@Leviticus:2:8 @ And you shall bring the cereal offering that is made of these things to the LORD; and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.

rsv@Leviticus:2:9 @ And the priest shall take from the cereal offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:2:14 @ "If you offer a cereal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the cereal offering of your first fruits crushed new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.

rsv@Leviticus:2:16 @ And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion part of the crushed grain and of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:3:2 @ And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar round about.

rsv@Leviticus:3:11 @ And the priest shall burn it on the altar as food offered by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:3:16 @ And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the LORD's.

rsv@Leviticus:3:17 @ It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."

rsv@Leviticus:4:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:4:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, If any one sins unwittingly in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

rsv@Leviticus:4:3 @ if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer for the sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.

rsv@Leviticus:4:5 @ And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting;

rsv@Leviticus:4:6 @ and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

rsv@Leviticus:4:7 @ And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD which is in the tent of meeting, and the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:4:10 @ (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings), and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:4:11 @ But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung,

rsv@Leviticus:4:12 @ the whole bull he shall carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and shall burn it on a fire of wood; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

rsv@Leviticus:4:13 @ "If the whole congregation of Israel commits a sin unwittingly and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done and are guilty;

rsv@Leviticus:4:14 @ when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a young bull for a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting;

rsv@Leviticus:4:16 @ Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting,

rsv@Leviticus:4:17 @ and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.

rsv@Leviticus:4:18 @ And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is in the tent of meeting before the LORD; and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:4:20 @ Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

rsv@Leviticus:4:25 @ Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:4:26 @ And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings; so the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

rsv@Leviticus:4:30 @ And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

rsv@Leviticus:4:31 @ And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a pleasing odor to the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

rsv@Leviticus:4:34 @ Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

rsv@Leviticus:4:35 @ And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

rsv@Leviticus:5:1 @ "If any one sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity.

rsv@Leviticus:5:2 @ Or if any one touches an unclean thing, whether the carcass of an unclean beast or a carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him, and he has become unclean, he shall be guilty.

rsv@Leviticus:5:3 @ Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall be guilty.

rsv@Leviticus:5:4 @ Or if any one utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that men swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he shall in any of these be guilty.

rsv@Leviticus:5:5 @ When a man is guilty in any of these, he shall confess the sin he has committed,

rsv@Leviticus:5:6 @ and he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.

rsv@Leviticus:5:7 @ "But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:5:8 @ He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering; he shall wring its head from its neck, but shall not sever it,

rsv@Leviticus:5:9 @ and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.

rsv@Leviticus:5:10 @ Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.

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:5:12 @ And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, upon the offerings by fire to the LORD; it is a sin offering.

rsv@Leviticus:5:13 @ Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the cereal offering."

rsv@Leviticus:5:14 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:5:16 @ He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

rsv@Leviticus:5:17 @ "If any one sins, doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

rsv@Leviticus:5:18 @ He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you at the price for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the error which he committed unwittingly, and he shall be forgiven.

rsv@Leviticus:6:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:6:2 @ "If any one sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor

rsv@Leviticus:6:4 @ when one has sinned and become guilty, he shall restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

rsv@Leviticus:6:5 @ or anything about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs, on the day of his guilt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:6:6 @ And he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you at the price for a guilt offering;

rsv@Leviticus:6:7 @ and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things which one may do and thereby become guilty."

rsv@Leviticus:6:8 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:6:10 @ And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and put his linen breeches upon his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.

rsv@Leviticus:6:11 @ Then he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

rsv@Leviticus:6:12 @ The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.

rsv@Leviticus:6:16 @ And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.

rsv@Leviticus:6:18 @ Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed for ever throughout your generations, from the LORD's offerings by fire; whoever touches them shall become holy."

rsv@Leviticus:6:19 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:6:21 @ It shall be made with oil on a griddle; you shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a cereal offering, and offer it for a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:6:22 @ The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed for ever; the whole of it shall be burned.

rsv@Leviticus:6:23 @ Every cereal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned; it shall not be eaten."

rsv@Leviticus:6:24 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:6:26 @ The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:6:27 @ Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy; and when any of its blood is sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

rsv@Leviticus:6:28 @ And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; but if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.

rsv@Leviticus:6:29 @ Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.

rsv@Leviticus:7:5 @ the priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:7:6 @ Every male among the priests may eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

rsv@Leviticus:7:7 @ The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

rsv@Leviticus:7:8 @ And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.

rsv@Leviticus:7:9 @ And every cereal offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it.

rsv@Leviticus:7:12 @ If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thank offering unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well mixed with oil.

rsv@Leviticus:7:13 @ With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with cakes of leavened bread.

rsv@Leviticus:7:14 @ And of such he shall offer one cake from each offering, as an offering to the LORD; it shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings.

rsv@Leviticus:7:15 @ And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.

rsv@Leviticus:7:17 @ but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.

rsv@Leviticus:7:18 @ If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him; it shall be an abomination, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

rsv@Leviticus:7:19 @ "Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,

rsv@Leviticus:7:20 @ but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.

rsv@Leviticus:7:21 @ And if any one touches an unclean thing, whether the uncleanness of man or an unclean beast or any unclean abomination, and then eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people."

rsv@Leviticus:7:22 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:7:24 @ The fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of one that is torn by beasts, may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.

rsv@Leviticus:7:28 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:7:31 @ The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.

rsv@Leviticus:7:32 @ And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as an offering from the sacrifice of your peace offerings;

rsv@Leviticus:7:34 @ For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.

rsv@Leviticus:7:35 @ This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the offerings made by fire to the LORD, consecrated to them on the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD;

rsv@Leviticus:7:38 @ which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

rsv@Leviticus:8:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:8:4 @ And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:8:5 @ And Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done."

rsv@Leviticus:8:6 @ And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

rsv@Leviticus:8:9 @ And he set the turban upon his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:8:10 @ Then Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

rsv@Leviticus:8:11 @ And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them.

rsv@Leviticus:8:13 @ And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound caps on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:8:15 @ And Moses killed it, and took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar round about, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

rsv@Leviticus:8:16 @ And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.

rsv@Leviticus:8:17 @ But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:8:18 @ Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

rsv@Leviticus:8:19 @ And Moses killed it, and threw the blood upon the altar round about.

rsv@Leviticus:8:20 @ And when the ram was cut into pieces, Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.

rsv@Leviticus:8:21 @ And when the entrails and the legs were washed with water, Moses burned the whole ram on the altar, as a burnt offering, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:8:22 @ Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

rsv@Leviticus:8:23 @ And Moses killed it, and took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot.

rsv@Leviticus:8:24 @ And Aaron's sons were brought, and Moses put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet; and Moses threw the blood upon the altar round about.

rsv@Leviticus:8:27 @ and he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:8:28 @ Then Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering, as an ordination offering, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:8:29 @ And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD; it was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:8:30 @ Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron and his garments, and also upon his sons and his sons' garments; so he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.

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

rsv@Leviticus:8:32 @ and what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn with fire.

rsv@Leviticus:8:35 @ At the door of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has charged, lest you die; for so I am commanded."

rsv@Leviticus:8:36 @ And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:9:1 @ On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;

rsv@Leviticus:9:5 @ And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:9:6 @ And Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded you to do; and the glory of the LORD will appear to you."

rsv@Leviticus:9:7 @ Then Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people; and bring the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD has commanded."

rsv@Leviticus:9:9 @ And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar;

rsv@Leviticus:9:10 @ but the fat and the kidneys and the appendage of the liver from the sin offering he burned upon the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:9:11 @ The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

rsv@Leviticus:9:15 @ Then he presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first sin offering.

rsv@Leviticus:9:16 @ And he presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

rsv@Leviticus:9:17 @ And he presented the cereal offering, and filled his hand from it, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

rsv@Leviticus:9:21 @ but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.

rsv@Leviticus:9:22 @ Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

rsv@Leviticus:9:23 @ And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting; and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

rsv@Leviticus:9:24 @ And fire came forth from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

rsv@Leviticus:10:2 @ And fire came forth from the presence of the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:10:3 @ Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD has said, `I will show myself holy among those who are near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron held his peace.

rsv@Leviticus:10:4 @ And Moses called Mish'a-el and Elza'phan, the sons of Uz'ziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp."

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

rsv@Leviticus:10:6 @ And Moses said to Aaron and to Elea'zar and Ith'amar, his sons, "Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not rend your clothes, lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the congregation; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, may bewail the burning which the LORD has kindled.

rsv@Leviticus:10:7 @ And do not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:10:9 @ "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

rsv@Leviticus:10:11 @ and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by Moses."

rsv@Leviticus:10:12 @ And Moses said to Aaron and to Elea'zar and Ith'amar, his sons who were left, "Take the cereal offering that remains of the offerings by fire to the LORD, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy;

rsv@Leviticus:10:14 @ But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered you shall eat in any clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they are given as your due and your sons' due, from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.

rsv@Leviticus:10:16 @ Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned! And he was angry with Elea'zar and Ith'amar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,

rsv@Leviticus:10:19 @ And Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and yet such things as these have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the sight of the LORD?"

rsv@Leviticus:10:20 @ And when Moses heard that, he was content.

rsv@Leviticus:11:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Leviticus:11:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

rsv@Leviticus:11:4 @ Nevertheless among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:5 @ And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:6 @ And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:7 @ And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:8 @ Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:9 @ "These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

rsv@Leviticus:11:10 @ But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is an abomination to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:11 @ They shall remain an abomination to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall have in abomination.

rsv@Leviticus:11:12 @ Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is an abomination to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:13 @ "And these you shall have in abomination among the birds, they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

rsv@Leviticus:11:24 @ "And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

rsv@Leviticus:11:25 @ and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:11:26 @ Every animal which parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you; every one who touches them shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:11:27 @ And all that go on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

rsv@Leviticus:11:28 @ and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:29 @ "And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard according to its kind,

rsv@Leviticus:11:31 @ These are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:11:32 @ And anything upon which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any vessel that is used for any purpose; it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:11:33 @ And if any of them falls into any earthen vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

rsv@Leviticus:11:34 @ Any food in it which may be eaten, upon which water may come, shall be unclean; and all drink which may be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:11:35 @ And everything upon which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:36 @ Nevertheless a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean; but whatever touches their carcass shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:11:39 @ "And if any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

rsv@Leviticus:11:40 @ and he who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; he also who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:11:42 @ Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, all the swarming things that swarm upon the earth, you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

rsv@Leviticus:11:43 @ You shall not make yourselves abominable with any swarming thing that swarms; and you shall not defile yourselves with them, lest you become unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:11:44 @ For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls upon the earth.

rsv@Leviticus:11:46 @ This is the law pertaining to beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth,

rsv@Leviticus:12:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:12:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:12:3 @ And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

rsv@Leviticus:12:6 @ "And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,

rsv@Leviticus:12:8 @ And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean."

rsv@Leviticus:13:1 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Leviticus:13:2 @ "When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,

rsv@Leviticus:13:3 @ and the priest shall examine the diseased spot on the skin of his body; and if the hair in the diseased spot has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous disease; when the priest has examined him he shall pronounce him unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:4 @ But if the spot is white in the skin of his body, and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days;

rsv@Leviticus:13:5 @ and the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more;

rsv@Leviticus:13:6 @ and the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased spot is dim and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:7 @ But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest;

rsv@Leviticus:13:8 @ and the priest shall make an examination, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

rsv@Leviticus:13:9 @ "When a man is afflicted with leprosy, he shall be brought to the priest;

rsv@Leviticus:13:10 @ and the priest shall make an examination, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, which has turned the hair white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,

rsv@Leviticus:13:11 @ it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:12 @ And if the leprosy breaks out in the skin, so that the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,

rsv@Leviticus:13:13 @ then the priest shall make an examination, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:14 @ But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:15 @ And the priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; raw flesh is unclean, for it is leprosy.

rsv@Leviticus:13:16 @ But if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest,

rsv@Leviticus:13:17 @ and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:19 @ and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest;

rsv@Leviticus:13:20 @ and the priest shall make an examination, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.

rsv@Leviticus:13:21 @ But if the priest examines it, and the hair on it is not white and it is not deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days;

rsv@Leviticus:13:22 @ and if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is diseased.

rsv@Leviticus:13:23 @ But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:24 @ "Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,

rsv@Leviticus:13:25 @ the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.

rsv@Leviticus:13:26 @ But if the priest examines it, and the hair in the spot is not white and it is no deeper than the skin, but is dim, the priest shall shut him up seven days,

rsv@Leviticus:13:27 @ and the priest shall examine him the seventh day; if it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.

rsv@Leviticus:13:28 @ But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but is dim, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of the burn.

rsv@Leviticus:13:30 @ the priest shall examine the disease; and if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an itch, a leprosy of the head or the beard.

rsv@Leviticus:13:31 @ And if the priest examines the itching disease, and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,

rsv@Leviticus:13:32 @ and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease; and if the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,

rsv@Leviticus:13:33 @ then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days more;

rsv@Leviticus:13:34 @ and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:36 @ then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:37 @ But if in his eyes the itch is checked, and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:39 @ the priest shall make an examination, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is tetter that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:41 @ And if a man's hair has fallen from his forehead and temples, he has baldness of the forehead but he is clean.

rsv@Leviticus:13:43 @ Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

rsv@Leviticus:13:44 @ he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.

rsv@Leviticus:13:45 @ "The leper who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, `Unclean, unclean.'

rsv@Leviticus:13:49 @ if the disease shows greenish or reddish in the garment, whether in warp or woof or in skin or in anything made of skin, it is a leprous disease and shall be shown to the priest.

rsv@Leviticus:13:50 @ And the priest shall examine the disease, and shut up that which has the disease for seven days;

rsv@Leviticus:13:53 @ "And if the priest examines, and the disease has not spread in the garment in warp or woof or in anything of skin,

rsv@Leviticus:13:54 @ then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up seven days more;

rsv@Leviticus:13:55 @ and the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the diseased spot has not changed color, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether the leprous spot is on the back or on the front.

rsv@Leviticus:13:56 @ "But if the priest examines, and the disease is dim after it is washed, he shall tear the spot out of the garment or the skin or the warp or woof;

rsv@Leviticus:14:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:14:2 @ "This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest;

rsv@Leviticus:14:3 @ and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall make an examination. Then, if the leprous disease is healed in the leper,

rsv@Leviticus:14:4 @ the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop;

rsv@Leviticus:14:5 @ and the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

rsv@Leviticus:14:7 @ and he shall sprinkle it seven times upon him who is to be cleansed of leprosy; then he shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

rsv@Leviticus:14:8 @ And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean; and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

rsv@Leviticus:14:9 @ And on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head; he shall shave off his beard and his eyebrows, all his hair. Then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:14:11 @ And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:14:12 @ And the priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD;

rsv@Leviticus:14:13 @ and he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

rsv@Leviticus:14:14 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

rsv@Leviticus:14:15 @ Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

rsv@Leviticus:14:16 @ and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:14:17 @ And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt offering;

rsv@Leviticus:14:18 @ and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:14:19 @ The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;

rsv@Leviticus:14:20 @ and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the cereal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:14:22 @ also two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford; the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:14:23 @ And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting, before the LORD;

rsv@Leviticus:14:24 @ and the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:14:25 @ And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

rsv@Leviticus:14:26 @ And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;

rsv@Leviticus:14:27 @ and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD;

rsv@Leviticus:14:28 @ and the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put;

rsv@Leviticus:14:29 @ and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:14:30 @ And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or young pigeons such as he can afford,

rsv@Leviticus:14:31 @ one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a cereal offering; and the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed.

rsv@Leviticus:14:33 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Leviticus:14:34 @ "When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,

rsv@Leviticus:14:35 @ then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, `There seems to me to be some sort of disease in my house.'

rsv@Leviticus:14:36 @ Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.

rsv@Leviticus:14:38 @ then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

rsv@Leviticus:14:39 @ And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look; and if the disease has spread in the walls of the house,

rsv@Leviticus:14:40 @ then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city;

rsv@Leviticus:14:42 @ then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.

rsv@Leviticus:14:43 @ "If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,

rsv@Leviticus:14:44 @ then the priest shall go and look; and if the disease has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:14:45 @ And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.

rsv@Leviticus:14:47 @ and he who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

rsv@Leviticus:14:48 @ "But if the priest comes and makes an examination, and the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.

rsv@Leviticus:14:50 @ and shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water,

rsv@Leviticus:14:51 @ and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet stuff, along with the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

rsv@Leviticus:15:1 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Leviticus:15:3 @ And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped from discharge, it is uncleanness in him.

rsv@Leviticus:15:4 @ Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:15:5 @ And any one who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:6 @ And whoever sits on anything on which he who has the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:7 @ And whoever touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:8 @ And if he who has the discharge spits on one who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:9 @ And any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:15:10 @ And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and he who carries such a thing shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:11 @ Any one whom he that has the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:12 @ And the earthen vessel which he who has the discharge touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

rsv@Leviticus:15:13 @ "And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his body in running water, and shall be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:15:14 @ And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD to the door of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest;

rsv@Leviticus:15:15 @ and the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

rsv@Leviticus:15:17 @ And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:18 @ If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:19 @ "When a woman has a discharge of blood which is her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:20 @ And everything upon which she lies during her impurity shall be unclean; everything also upon which she sits shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:15:21 @ And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:22 @ And whoever touches anything upon which she sits shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening;

rsv@Leviticus:15:23 @ whether it is the bed or anything upon which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:24 @ And if any man lies with her, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:15:25 @ "If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness; as in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:15:26 @ Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity.

rsv@Leviticus:15:27 @ And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:29 @ And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Leviticus:15:30 @ And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.

rsv@Leviticus:15:31 @ "Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst."

rsv@Leviticus:15:33 @ also for her who is sick with her impurity; that is, for any one, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:16:1 @ The LORD spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died;

rsv@Leviticus:16:2 @ and the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is upon the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

rsv@Leviticus:16:4 @ He shall put on the holy linen coat, and shall have the linen breeches on his body, be girded with the linen girdle, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and then put them on.

rsv@Leviticus:16:9 @ And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD, and offer it as a sin offering;

rsv@Leviticus:16:10 @ but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza'zel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza'zel.

rsv@Leviticus:16:11 @ "Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.

rsv@Leviticus:16:13 @ and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat which is upon the testimony, lest he die;

rsv@Leviticus:16:14 @ and he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times.

rsv@Leviticus:16:16 @ thus he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which abides with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.

rsv@Leviticus:16:17 @ There shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.

rsv@Leviticus:16:19 @ And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.

rsv@Leviticus:16:20 @ "And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat;

rsv@Leviticus:16:21 @ and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.

rsv@Leviticus:16:22 @ The goat shall bear all their iniquities upon him to a solitary land; and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.

rsv@Leviticus:16:26 @ And he who lets the goat go to Aza'zel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

rsv@Leviticus:16:27 @ And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned with fire.

rsv@Leviticus:16:28 @ And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.

rsv@Leviticus:16:29 @ "And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you;

rsv@Leviticus:16:31 @ It is a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute for ever.

rsv@Leviticus:16:32 @ And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments;

rsv@Leviticus:16:33 @ he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

rsv@Leviticus:16:34 @ And this shall be an everlasting statute for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.

rsv@Leviticus:17:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:17:4 @ and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as a gift to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

rsv@Leviticus:17:5 @ This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they slay in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting, and slay them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD;

rsv@Leviticus:17:6 @ and the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:17:7 @ So they shall no more slay their sacrifices for satyrs, after whom they play the harlot. This shall be a statute for ever to them throughout their generations.

rsv@Leviticus:17:9 @ and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from his people.

rsv@Leviticus:17:11 @ For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.

rsv@Leviticus:17:13 @ Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.

rsv@Leviticus:17:15 @ And every person that eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.

rsv@Leviticus:17:16 @ But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity."

rsv@Leviticus:18:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:18:3 @ You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.

rsv@Leviticus:18:4 @ You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:18:5 @ You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, by doing which a man shall live: I am the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:18:6 @ "None of you shall approach any one near of kin to him to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:18:7 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:8 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:9 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

rsv@Leviticus:18:10 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:11 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.

rsv@Leviticus:18:12 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's near kinswoman.

rsv@Leviticus:18:13 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

rsv@Leviticus:18:14 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

rsv@Leviticus:18:15 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:16 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:17 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near kinswomen; it is wickedness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:18 @ And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.

rsv@Leviticus:18:19 @ "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

rsv@Leviticus:18:24 @ "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves;

rsv@Leviticus:18:26 @ But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you

rsv@Leviticus:18:27 @ (for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);

rsv@Leviticus:18:28 @ lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

rsv@Leviticus:18:29 @ For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

rsv@Leviticus:18:30 @ So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."

rsv@Leviticus:19:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:19:4 @ Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:19:9 @ "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

rsv@Leviticus:19:10 @ And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:19:13 @ "You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

rsv@Leviticus:19:15 @ "You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

rsv@Leviticus:19:17 @ "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.

rsv@Leviticus:19:19 @ "You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.

rsv@Leviticus:19:20 @ "If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

rsv@Leviticus:19:22 @ And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

rsv@Leviticus:19:23 @ "When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten.

rsv@Leviticus:19:26 @ "You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

rsv@Leviticus:19:27 @ You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

rsv@Leviticus:19:28 @ You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:19:29 @ "Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.

rsv@Leviticus:19:35 @ "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

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:19:37 @ And you shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD."

rsv@Leviticus:20:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:20:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, Any man of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

rsv@Leviticus:20:4 @ And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

rsv@Leviticus:20:7 @ Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:20:8 @ Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the LORD who sanctify you.

rsv@Leviticus:20:9 @ For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.

rsv@Leviticus:20:10 @ "If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

rsv@Leviticus:20:11 @ The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

rsv@Leviticus:20:12 @ If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood is upon them.

rsv@Leviticus:20:13 @ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

rsv@Leviticus:20:14 @ If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.

rsv@Leviticus:20:15 @ If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast.

rsv@Leviticus:20:16 @ If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

rsv@Leviticus:20:17 @ "If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.

rsv@Leviticus:20:18 @ If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

rsv@Leviticus:20:19 @ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.

rsv@Leviticus:20:20 @ If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless.

rsv@Leviticus:20:21 @ If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness, they shall be childless.

rsv@Leviticus:20:22 @ "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.

rsv@Leviticus:20:23 @ And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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

rsv@Leviticus:20:25 @ You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

rsv@Leviticus:20:26 @ You shall be holy to me; for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

rsv@Leviticus:20:27 @ "A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them."

rsv@Leviticus:21:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

rsv@Leviticus:21:2 @ except for his nearest of kin, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

rsv@Leviticus:21:5 @ They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

rsv@Leviticus:21:7 @ They shall not marry a harlot or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest is holy to his God.

rsv@Leviticus:21:9 @ And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

rsv@Leviticus:21:10 @ "The priest who is chief among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;

rsv@Leviticus:21:14 @ A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people,

rsv@Leviticus:21:16 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:21:17 @ "Say to Aaron, None of your descendants throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.

rsv@Leviticus:21:20 @ or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;

rsv@Leviticus:21:21 @ no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD's offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

rsv@Leviticus:21:23 @ but he shall not come near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the LORD who sanctify them."

rsv@Leviticus:21:24 @ So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.

rsv@Leviticus:22:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:22:3 @ Say to them, `If any one of all your descendants throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:22:4 @ None of the line of Aaron who is a leper or suffers a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,

rsv@Leviticus:22:5 @ and whoever touches a creeping thing by which he may be made unclean or a man from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be--

rsv@Leviticus:22:6 @ the person who touches any such shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.

rsv@Leviticus:22:8 @ That which dies of itself or is torn by beasts he shall not eat, defiling himself by it: I am the LORD.'

rsv@Leviticus:22:9 @ They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctify them.

rsv@Leviticus:22:10 @ "An outsider shall not eat of a holy thing. A sojourner of the priest's or a hired servant shall not eat of a holy thing;

rsv@Leviticus:22:11 @ but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it; and those that are born in his house may eat of his food.

rsv@Leviticus:22:12 @ If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider she shall not eat of the offering of the holy things.

rsv@Leviticus:22:13 @ But if a priest's daughter is a widow or divorced, and has no child, and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no outsider shall eat of it.

rsv@Leviticus:22:14 @ And if a man eats of a holy thing unwittingly, he shall add the fifth of its value to it, and give the holy thing to the priest.

rsv@Leviticus:22:15 @ The priests shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they offer to the LORD,

rsv@Leviticus:22:17 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:22:18 @ "Say to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents his offering, whether in payment of a vow or as a freewill offering which is offered to the LORD as a burnt offering,

rsv@Leviticus:22:23 @ A bull or a lamb which has a part too long or too short you may present for a freewill offering; but for a votive offering it cannot be accepted.

rsv@Leviticus:22:24 @ Any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the LORD or sacrifice within your land;

rsv@Leviticus:22:26 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:23:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:23:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, The appointed feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed feasts, are these.

rsv@Leviticus:23:3 @ Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.

rsv@Leviticus:23:4 @ "These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.

rsv@Leviticus:23:8 @ But you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work."

rsv@Leviticus:23:9 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:23:10 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest;

rsv@Leviticus:23:11 @ and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, that you may find acceptance; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

rsv@Leviticus:23:14 @ And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

rsv@Leviticus:23:16 @ counting fifty days to the morrow after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the LORD.

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:23:18 @ And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one young bull, and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their cereal offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:23:20 @ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

rsv@Leviticus:23:22 @ "And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God."

rsv@Leviticus:23:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:23:24 @ "Say to the people of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.

rsv@Leviticus:23:25 @ You shall do no laborious work; and you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD."

rsv@Leviticus:23:26 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:23:27 @ "On the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:23:30 @ And whoever does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

rsv@Leviticus:23:32 @ It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves; on the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your sabbath."

rsv@Leviticus:23:33 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:23:36 @ Seven days you shall present offerings by fire to the LORD; on the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

rsv@Leviticus:23:37 @ "These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD offerings by fire, burnt offerings and cereal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day;

rsv@Leviticus:23:38 @ besides the sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your votive offerings, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:23:39 @ "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

rsv@Leviticus:23:40 @ And you shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

rsv@Leviticus:23:44 @ Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:24:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:24:2 @ "Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning continually.

rsv@Leviticus:24:3 @ Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

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:24:11 @ and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelo'mith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Daniel.

rsv@Leviticus:24:13 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:24:15 @ And say to the people of Israel, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

rsv@Leviticus:24:16 @ He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

rsv@Leviticus:24:19 @ When a man causes a disfigurement in his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,

rsv@Leviticus:24:23 @ So Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:25:1 @ The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

rsv@Leviticus:25:4 @ but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

rsv@Leviticus:25:5 @ What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

rsv@Leviticus:25:6 @ The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;

rsv@Leviticus:25:8 @ "And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

rsv@Leviticus:25:11 @ A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.

rsv@Leviticus:25:18 @ "Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.

rsv@Leviticus:25:21 @ I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.

rsv@Leviticus:25:22 @ When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

rsv@Leviticus:25:24 @ And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.

rsv@Leviticus:25:25 @ "If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

rsv@Leviticus:25:26 @ If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

rsv@Leviticus:25:31 @ But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

rsv@Leviticus:25:32 @ Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

rsv@Leviticus:25:33 @ And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

rsv@Leviticus:25:34 @ But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.

rsv@Leviticus:25:35 @ "And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

rsv@Leviticus:25:36 @ Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.

rsv@Leviticus:25:37 @ You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

rsv@Leviticus:25:39 @ "And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

rsv@Leviticus:25:41 @ then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.

rsv@Leviticus:25:42 @ For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

rsv@Leviticus:25:43 @ You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

rsv@Leviticus:25:44 @ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.

rsv@Leviticus:25:45 @ You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.

rsv@Leviticus:25:46 @ You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

rsv@Leviticus:25:47 @ "If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to a member of the stranger's family,

rsv@Leviticus:25:53 @ As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

rsv@Leviticus:25:54 @ And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

rsv@Leviticus:26:1 @ "You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:26:3 @ "If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

rsv@Leviticus:26:4 @ then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

rsv@Leviticus:26:5 @ And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.

rsv@Leviticus:26:7 @ And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

rsv@Leviticus:26:8 @ Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

rsv@Leviticus:26:13 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

rsv@Leviticus:26:14 @ "But if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments,

rsv@Leviticus:26:15 @ if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

rsv@Leviticus:26:16 @ I will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption, and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it;

rsv@Leviticus:26:17 @ I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

rsv@Leviticus:26:20 @ and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

rsv@Leviticus:26:21 @ "Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins.

rsv@Leviticus:26:22 @ And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.

rsv@Leviticus:26:25 @ And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

rsv@Leviticus:26:29 @ You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

rsv@Leviticus:26:30 @ And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

rsv@Leviticus:26:31 @ And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

rsv@Leviticus:26:32 @ And I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be astonished at it.

rsv@Leviticus:26:33 @ And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

rsv@Leviticus:26:34 @ "Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

rsv@Leviticus:26:35 @ As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it.

rsv@Leviticus:26:36 @ And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

rsv@Leviticus:26:37 @ They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

rsv@Leviticus:26:38 @ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

rsv@Leviticus:26:39 @ And those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like them.

rsv@Leviticus:26:40 @ "But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

rsv@Leviticus:26:41 @ so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity;

rsv@Leviticus:26:43 @ But the land shall be left by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

rsv@Leviticus:26:44 @ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God;

rsv@Leviticus:26:46 @ These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD made between him and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai by Moses.

rsv@Leviticus:27:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:27:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,

rsv@Leviticus:27:8 @ And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him.

rsv@Leviticus:27:9 @ "If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the LORD, all of such that any man gives to the LORD is holy.

rsv@Leviticus:27:10 @ He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.

rsv@Leviticus:27:11 @ And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the LORD, then the man shall bring the animal before the priest,

rsv@Leviticus:27:12 @ and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

rsv@Leviticus:27:13 @ But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.

rsv@Leviticus:27:14 @ "When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

rsv@Leviticus:27:15 @ And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall be his.

rsv@Leviticus:27:16 @ "If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it; a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

rsv@Leviticus:27:17 @ If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full valuation;

rsv@Leviticus:27:18 @ but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation.

rsv@Leviticus:27:19 @ And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall remain his.

rsv@Leviticus:27:20 @ But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;

rsv@Leviticus:27:21 @ but the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field that has been devoted; the priest shall be in possession of it.

rsv@Leviticus:27:22 @ If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance,

rsv@Leviticus:27:23 @ then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:27:24 @ In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance.

rsv@Leviticus:27:28 @ "But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether of man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:27:29 @ No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall be put to death.

rsv@Leviticus:27:30 @ "All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:27:31 @ If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.

rsv@Leviticus:27:33 @ A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed."

rsv@Leviticus:27:34 @ These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.

rsv@Numbers:1:1 @ The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

rsv@Numbers:1:2 @ "Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head;

rsv@Numbers:1:5 @ And these are the names of the men who shall attend you. From Reuben, Eli'zur the son of Shed'eur;

rsv@Numbers:1:16 @ These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:1:17 @ Moses and Aaron took these men who have been named,

rsv@Numbers:1:18 @ and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

rsv@Numbers:1:19 @ as the LORD commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

rsv@Numbers:1:20 @ The people of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:

rsv@Numbers:1:22 @ Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:

rsv@Numbers:1:24 @ Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:

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:1:28 @ Of the people of Is'sachar, 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:1:30 @ Of the people of Zeb'ulun, 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:1:32 @ Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of E'phraim, 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:1:34 @ Of the people of Manas'seh, 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:1:36 @ Of the people of Benjamin, 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:1:38 @ Of the people of Dan, 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:1:40 @ Of the people of Asher, 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:1:42 @ Of the people of Naph'tali, 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:1:44 @ These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered with the help of the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers' house.

rsv@Numbers:1:45 @ So the whole number of the people of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war in Israel--

rsv@Numbers:1:47 @ But the Levites were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them.

rsv@Numbers:1:48 @ For the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:1:50 @ but appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it; they are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall tend it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle.

rsv@Numbers:1:51 @ When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death.

rsv@Numbers:1:52 @ The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard;

rsv@Numbers:1:53 @ but the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the people of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony."

rsv@Numbers:1:54 @ Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:2:1 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:2:2 @ "The people of Israel shall encamp each by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses; they shall encamp facing the tent of meeting on every side.

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:2:10 @ "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the leader of the people of Reuben being Eli'zur the son of Shed'eur,

rsv@Numbers:2:16 @ The whole number of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, is a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They shall set out second.

rsv@Numbers:2:17 @ "Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.

rsv@Numbers:2:18 @ "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of E'phraim by their companies, the leader of the people of E'phraim being Eli'shama the son of Ammi'hud,

rsv@Numbers:2:24 @ The whole number of the camp of E'phraim, by their companies, is a hundred and eight thousand one hundred. They shall set out third on the march.

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:2:32 @ These are the people of Israel as numbered by their fathers' houses; all in the camps who were numbered by their companies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

rsv@Numbers:2:33 @ But the Levites were not numbered among the people of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:2:34 @ Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, every one in his family, according to his fathers' house.

rsv@Numbers:3:1 @ These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

rsv@Numbers:3:2 @ These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar;

rsv@Numbers:3:3 @ these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister in the priest's office.

rsv@Numbers:3:4 @ But Nadab and Abi'hu died before the LORD when they offered unholy fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Elea'zar and Ith'amar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.

rsv@Numbers:3:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:3:6 @ "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

rsv@Numbers:3:7 @ They shall perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle;

rsv@Numbers:3:8 @ they shall have charge of all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and attend to the duties for the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle.

rsv@Numbers:3:9 @ And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:3:10 @ And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death."

rsv@Numbers:3:11 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:3:12 @ "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every first-born that opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,

rsv@Numbers:3:14 @ And the LORD said to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,

rsv@Numbers:3:15 @ "Number the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number."

rsv@Numbers:3:16 @ So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

rsv@Numbers:3:17 @ And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merar'i.

rsv@Numbers:3:18 @ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shim'e-i.

rsv@Numbers:3:19 @ And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uz'ziel.

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:3:21 @ Of Gershon were the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shim'e-ites; these were the families of the Gershonites.

rsv@Numbers:3:22 @ Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand five hundred.

rsv@Numbers:3:23 @ The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west,

rsv@Numbers:3:24 @ with Eli'asaph, the son of La'el as head of the fathers' house of the Gershonites.

rsv@Numbers:3:26 @ the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords; all the service pertaining to these.

rsv@Numbers:3:27 @ Of Kohath were the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izhar'ites, and the family of the He'bronites, and the family of the Uzzie'lites; these are the families of the Ko'hathites.

rsv@Numbers:3:28 @ According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, attending to the duties of the sanctuary.

rsv@Numbers:3:29 @ The families of the sons of Kohath were to encamp on the south side of the tabernacle,

rsv@Numbers:3:30 @ with Eli-za'phan the son of Uz'ziel as head of the fathers' house of the families of the Ko'hathites.

rsv@Numbers:3:31 @ And their charge was to be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service pertaining to these.

rsv@Numbers:3:32 @ And Elea'zar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who had charge of the sanctuary.

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:3:34 @ Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was six thousand two hundred.

rsv@Numbers:3:35 @ And the head of the fathers' house of the families of Merar'i was Zu'riel the son of Ab'ihail; they were to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

rsv@Numbers:3:36 @ And the appointed charge of the sons of Merar'i was to be the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service pertaining to these;

rsv@Numbers:3:37 @ also the pillars of the court round about, with their bases and pegs and cords.

rsv@Numbers:3:38 @ And those to encamp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, having charge of the rites within the sanctuary, whatever had to be done for the people of Israel; and any one else who came near was to be put to death.

rsv@Numbers:3:39 @ All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

rsv@Numbers:3:40 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Number all the first-born males of the people of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking their number by names.

rsv@Numbers:3:41 @ And you shall take the Levites for me--I am the LORD--instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the people of Israel."

rsv@Numbers:3:42 @ So Moses numbered all the first-born among the people of Israel, as the LORD commanded him.

rsv@Numbers:3:43 @ And all the first-born males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as numbered were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

rsv@Numbers:3:44 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:3:45 @ "Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:3:46 @ And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,

rsv@Numbers:3:48 @ and give the money by which the excess number of them is redeemed to Aaron and his sons."

rsv@Numbers:3:49 @ So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites;

rsv@Numbers:3:51 @ and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:4:1 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:4:2 @ "Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families and their fathers' houses,

rsv@Numbers:4:5 @ When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it;

rsv@Numbers:4:6 @ then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin, and spread over that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

rsv@Numbers:4:7 @ And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put upon it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the continual bread also shall be on it;

rsv@Numbers:4:8 @ then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

rsv@Numbers:4:9 @ And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its snuffers, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied:

rsv@Numbers:4:11 @ And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles;

rsv@Numbers:4:12 @ and they shall take all the vessels of the service which are used in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of goatskin, and put them on the carrying frame.

rsv@Numbers:4:13 @ And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it;

rsv@Numbers:4:14 @ and they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the firepans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

rsv@Numbers:4:15 @ And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

rsv@Numbers:4:16 @ "And Elea'zar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the continual cereal offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels."

rsv@Numbers:4:17 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:4:18 @ "Let not the tribe of the families of the Ko'hathites be destroyed from among the Levites;

rsv@Numbers:4:20 @ but they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die."

rsv@Numbers:4:21 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:4:22 @ "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their families and their fathers' houses;

rsv@Numbers:4:24 @ This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:

rsv@Numbers:4:27 @ All the service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry, and in all that they have to do; and you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry.

rsv@Numbers:4:28 @ This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their work is to be under the oversight of Ith'amar the son of Aaron the priest.

rsv@Numbers:4:29 @ "As for the sons of Merar'i, you shall number them by their families and their fathers' houses;

rsv@Numbers:4:31 @ And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases,

rsv@Numbers:4:32 @ and the pillars of the court round about with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories; and you shall assign by name the objects which they are required to carry.

rsv@Numbers:4:33 @ This is the service of the families of the sons of Merar'i, the whole of their service in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ith'amar the son of Aaron the priest."

rsv@Numbers:4:34 @ And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Ko'hathites, by their families and their fathers' houses,

rsv@Numbers:4:36 @ and their number by families was two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

rsv@Numbers:4:37 @ This was the number of the families of the Ko'hathites, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.

rsv@Numbers:4:38 @ The number of the sons of Gershon, by their families and their fathers' houses,

rsv@Numbers:4:40 @ their number by their families and their fathers' houses was two thousand six hundred and thirty.

rsv@Numbers:4:41 @ This was the number of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:4:42 @ The number of the families of the sons of Merar'i, by their families and their fathers' houses,

rsv@Numbers:4:44 @ their number by families was three thousand two hundred.

rsv@Numbers:4:45 @ These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merar'i, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.

rsv@Numbers:4:46 @ All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and their fathers' houses,

rsv@Numbers:4:49 @ According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses they were appointed, each to his task of serving or carrying; thus they were numbered by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:5:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:5:4 @ And the people of Israel did so, and drove them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.

rsv@Numbers:5:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:5:7 @ he shall confess his sin which he has committed; and he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it, and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.

rsv@Numbers:5:8 @ But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.

rsv@Numbers:5:9 @ And every offering, all the holy things of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his;

rsv@Numbers:5:10 @ and every man's holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives to the priest shall be his."

rsv@Numbers:5:11 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:5:12 @ "Say to the people of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

rsv@Numbers:5:13 @ if a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act;

rsv@Numbers:5:14 @ and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself;

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:5:16 @ "And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD;

rsv@Numbers:5:17 @ and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

rsv@Numbers:5:18 @ And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

rsv@Numbers:5:19 @ Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, `If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness, while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

rsv@Numbers:5:21 @ then' (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) `the LORD make you an execration and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell;

rsv@Numbers:5:23 @ "Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and wash them off into the water of bitterness;

rsv@Numbers:5:24 @ and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.

rsv@Numbers:5:25 @ And the priest shall take the cereal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the cereal offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar;

rsv@Numbers:5:26 @ and the priest shall take a handful of the cereal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

rsv@Numbers:5:29 @ "This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

rsv@Numbers:5:30 @ or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

rsv@Numbers:6:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:6:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

rsv@Numbers:6:3 @ he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

rsv@Numbers:6:5 @ "All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

rsv@Numbers:6:6 @ "All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

rsv@Numbers:6:9 @ "And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

rsv@Numbers:6:10 @ On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tent of meeting,

rsv@Numbers:6:11 @ and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day,

rsv@Numbers:6:15 @ and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their cereal offering and their drink offerings.

rsv@Numbers:6:16 @ And the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

rsv@Numbers:6:17 @ and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also its cereal offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:6:19 @ And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven the hair of his consecration,

rsv@Numbers:6:20 @ and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

rsv@Numbers:6:21 @ "This is the law for the Nazirite who takes a vow. His offering to the LORD shall be according to his vow as a Nazirite, apart from what else he can afford; in accordance with the vow which he takes, so shall he do according to the law for his separation as a Nazirite."

rsv@Numbers:6:22 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:6:23 @ "Say to Aaron and his sons, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,

rsv@Numbers:6:24 @ The LORD bless you and keep you:

rsv@Numbers:6:27 @ "So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them."

rsv@Numbers:7:1 @ On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings, and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,

rsv@Numbers:7:2 @ the leaders of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, the leaders of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered,

rsv@Numbers:7:4 @ Then the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:7:5 @ "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service."

rsv@Numbers:7:6 @ So Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

rsv@Numbers:7:8 @ and four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merar'i, according to their service, under the direction of Ith'amar the son of Aaron the priest.

rsv@Numbers:7:11 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "They shall offer their offerings, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar."

rsv@Numbers:7:84 @ This was the dedication offering for the altar, on the day when it was anointed, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,

rsv@Numbers:7:85 @ each silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and each basin seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,

rsv@Numbers:7:86 @ the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being a hundred and twenty shekels;

rsv@Numbers:7:89 @ And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.

rsv@Numbers:8:1 @ Now the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:8:3 @ And Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:8:4 @ And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

rsv@Numbers:8:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:8:6 @ "Take the Levites from among the people of Israel, and cleanse them.

rsv@Numbers:8:7 @ And thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.

rsv@Numbers:8:9 @ And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:8:10 @ When you present the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites,

rsv@Numbers:8:11 @ and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:8:12 @ Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls; and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

rsv@Numbers:8:13 @ And you shall cause the Levites to attend Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:8:14 @ "Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

rsv@Numbers:8:15 @ And after that the Levites shall go in to do service at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.

rsv@Numbers:8:18 @ and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:8:19 @ And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel in case the people of Israel should come near the sanctuary."

rsv@Numbers:8:20 @ Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel to the Levites; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the people of Israel did to them.

rsv@Numbers:8:21 @ And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

rsv@Numbers:8:22 @ And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting in attendance upon Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

rsv@Numbers:8:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:8:24 @ "This is what pertains to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the work in the service of the tent of meeting;

rsv@Numbers:8:26 @ but minister to their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties."

rsv@Numbers:9:1 @ And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

rsv@Numbers:9:3 @ On the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its ordinances you shall keep it."

rsv@Numbers:9:4 @ So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the passover.

rsv@Numbers:9:5 @ And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.

rsv@Numbers:9:6 @ And there were certain men who were unclean through touching the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day;

rsv@Numbers:9:8 @ And Moses said to them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

rsv@Numbers:9:9 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:9:10 @ "Say to the people of Israel, If any man of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is afar off on a journey, he shall still keep the passover to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:9:15 @ On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

rsv@Numbers:9:18 @ At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they encamped; as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

rsv@Numbers:9:20 @ Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.

rsv@Numbers:9:21 @ And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up they set out.

rsv@Numbers:9:23 @ At the command of the LORD they encamped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.

rsv@Numbers:10:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:10:3 @ And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Numbers:10:4 @ But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

rsv@Numbers:10:8 @ And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

rsv@Numbers:10:9 @ And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

rsv@Numbers:10:10 @ On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; they shall serve you for remembrance before your God: I am the LORD your God."

rsv@Numbers:10:11 @ In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

rsv@Numbers:10:12 @ and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

rsv@Numbers:10:13 @ They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses.

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:10:18 @ And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies; and over their host was Eli'zur the son of Shed'eur.

rsv@Numbers:10:21 @ Then the Ko'hathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

rsv@Numbers:10:22 @ And the standard of the camp of the men of E'phraim set out by their companies; and over their host was Eli'shama the son of Ammi'hud.

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:10:29 @ And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reu'el the Mid'ianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, `I will give it to you'; come with us, and we will do you good; for the LORD has promised good to Israel."

rsv@Numbers:10:31 @ And he said, "Do not leave us, I pray you, for you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

rsv@Numbers:10:33 @ So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

rsv@Numbers:10:35 @ And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O LORD, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee."

rsv@Numbers:10:36 @ And when it rested, he said, "Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel."

rsv@Numbers:11:1 @ And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes; and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

rsv@Numbers:11:2 @ Then the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

rsv@Numbers:11:8 @ The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

rsv@Numbers:11:10 @ Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.

rsv@Numbers:11:11 @ Moses said to the LORD, "Why hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou dost lay the burden of all this people upon me?

rsv@Numbers:11:12 @ Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, `Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child, to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?'

rsv@Numbers:11:15 @ If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."

rsv@Numbers:11:16 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

rsv@Numbers:11:18 @ And say to the people, `Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

rsv@Numbers:11:20 @ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come forth out of Egypt?"'"

rsv@Numbers:11:21 @ But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot; and thou hast said, `I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'

rsv@Numbers:11:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not."

rsv@Numbers:11:24 @ So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and placed them round about the tent.

rsv@Numbers:11:25 @ Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did so no more.

rsv@Numbers:11:26 @ Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested upon them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.

rsv@Numbers:11:27 @ And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."

rsv@Numbers:11:28 @ And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, "My lord Moses, forbid them."

rsv@Numbers:11:29 @ But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!"

rsv@Numbers:11:30 @ And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

rsv@Numbers:11:31 @ And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.

rsv@Numbers:11:32 @ And the people rose all that day, and all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails; he who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

rsv@Numbers:12:1 @ Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman;

rsv@Numbers:12:2 @ and they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.

rsv@Numbers:12:3 @ Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth.

rsv@Numbers:12:4 @ And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." And the three of them came out.

rsv@Numbers:12:7 @ Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.

rsv@Numbers:12:8 @ With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

rsv@Numbers:12:11 @ And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.

rsv@Numbers:12:12 @ Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."

rsv@Numbers:12:13 @ And Moses cried to the LORD, "Heal her, O God, I beseech thee."

rsv@Numbers:12:14 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again."

rsv@Numbers:12:16 @ After that the people set out from Haze'roth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

rsv@Numbers:13:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:13:3 @ So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:13:4 @ And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Sham'mu-a the son of Zaccur;

rsv@Numbers:13:16 @ These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshe'a the son of Nun Joshua.

rsv@Numbers:13:17 @ Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb yonder, and go up into the hill country,

rsv@Numbers:13:19 @ and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,

rsv@Numbers:13:20 @ and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there is wood in it or not. Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

rsv@Numbers:13:21 @ So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

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:13:23 @ And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they brought also some pomegranates and figs.

rsv@Numbers:13:24 @ That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down from there.

rsv@Numbers:13:26 @ And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

rsv@Numbers:13:28 @ Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

rsv@Numbers:13:29 @ The Amal'ekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jeb'usites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan."

rsv@Numbers:13:30 @ But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once, and occupy it; for we are well able to overcome it."

rsv@Numbers:13:33 @ And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

rsv@Numbers:14:2 @ And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

rsv@Numbers:14:3 @ Why does the LORD bring us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

rsv@Numbers:14:5 @ Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:14:6 @ And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh, who were among those who had spied out the land, rent their clothes,

rsv@Numbers:14:10 @ But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:14:11 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?

rsv@Numbers:14:12 @ I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

rsv@Numbers:14:13 @ But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them,

rsv@Numbers:14:14 @ and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou, O LORD, art in the midst of this people; for thou, O LORD, art seen face to face, and thy cloud stands over them and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

rsv@Numbers:14:16 @ `Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'

rsv@Numbers:14:18 @ `The LORD is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.'

rsv@Numbers:14:19 @ Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray thee, according to the greatness of thy steadfast love, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now."

rsv@Numbers:14:22 @ none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

rsv@Numbers:14:23 @ shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; and none of those who despised me shall see it.

rsv@Numbers:14:24 @ But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

rsv@Numbers:14:25 @ Now, since the Amal'ekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

rsv@Numbers:14:26 @ And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:14:29 @ your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

rsv@Numbers:14:31 @ But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

rsv@Numbers:14:32 @ But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

rsv@Numbers:14:33 @ And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

rsv@Numbers:14:35 @ I, the LORD, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die."

rsv@Numbers:14:36 @ And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

rsv@Numbers:14:39 @ And Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

rsv@Numbers:14:41 @ But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, for that will not succeed?

rsv@Numbers:14:42 @ Do not go up lest you be struck down before your enemies, for the LORD is not among you.

rsv@Numbers:14:43 @ For there the Amal'ekites and the Canaanites are before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you."

rsv@Numbers:14:44 @ But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD, nor Moses, departed out of the camp.

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:15:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:15:13 @ All who are native shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:15:14 @ And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD, he shall do as you do.

rsv@Numbers:15:17 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:15:19 @ and when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:15:20 @ Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

rsv@Numbers:15:22 @ "But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:15:23 @ all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,

rsv@Numbers:15:25 @ And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.

rsv@Numbers:15:28 @ And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

rsv@Numbers:15:29 @ You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native among the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.

rsv@Numbers:15:30 @ But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.

rsv@Numbers:15:31 @ Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him."

rsv@Numbers:15:32 @ While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

rsv@Numbers:15:33 @ And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

rsv@Numbers:15:35 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."

rsv@Numbers:15:36 @ And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:15:37 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:15:39 @ and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly.

rsv@Numbers:16:2 @ took men; and they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men;

rsv@Numbers:16:3 @ and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"

rsv@Numbers:16:4 @ When Moses heard it, he fell on his face;

rsv@Numbers:16:7 @ put fire in them and put incense upon them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!"

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

rsv@Numbers:16:10 @ and that he has brought you near him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?

rsv@Numbers:16:12 @ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab; and they said, "We will not come up.

rsv@Numbers:16:13 @ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?

rsv@Numbers:16:14 @ Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up."

rsv@Numbers:16:15 @ And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, and I have not harmed one of them."

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:16:18 @ So every man took his censer, and they put fire in them and laid incense upon them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

rsv@Numbers:16:20 @ And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:16:21 @ "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."

rsv@Numbers:16:22 @ And they fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?"

rsv@Numbers:16:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:16:25 @ Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abi'ram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

rsv@Numbers:16:26 @ And he said to the congregation, "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins."

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:16:28 @ And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.

rsv@Numbers:16:29 @ If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited by the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

rsv@Numbers:16:30 @ But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

rsv@Numbers:16:31 @ And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder;

rsv@Numbers:16:34 @ And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"

rsv@Numbers:16:36 @ Then the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:16:37 @ "Tell Elea'zar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze; then scatter the fire far and wide. For they are holy,

rsv@Numbers:16:38 @ the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives; so let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD; therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel."

rsv@Numbers:16:39 @ So Elea'zar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,

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:16:41 @ But on the morrow all the congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."

rsv@Numbers:16:42 @ And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

rsv@Numbers:16:43 @ And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,

rsv@Numbers:16:44 @ and the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:16:45 @ "Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces.

rsv@Numbers:16:46 @ And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun."

rsv@Numbers:16:47 @ So Aaron took it as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had already begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

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:16:50 @ And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.

rsv@Numbers:17:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:17:2 @ "Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each fathers' house, from all their leaders according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write each man's name upon his rod,

rsv@Numbers:17:4 @ Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

rsv@Numbers:17:6 @ Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and all their leaders gave him rods, one for each leader, according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

rsv@Numbers:17:7 @ And Moses deposited the rods before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.

rsv@Numbers:17:8 @ And on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

rsv@Numbers:17:9 @ Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD to all the people of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.

rsv@Numbers:17:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, lest they die."

rsv@Numbers:17:11 @ Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did.

rsv@Numbers:17:12 @ And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

rsv@Numbers:17:13 @ Every one who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?"

rsv@Numbers:18:1 @ So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear iniquity in connection with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity in connection with your priesthood.

rsv@Numbers:18:2 @ And with you bring your brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you, and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

rsv@Numbers:18:3 @ They shall attend you and attend to all duties of the tent; but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar, lest they, and you, die.

rsv@Numbers:18:5 @ And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there be wrath no more upon the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:18:6 @ And behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the people of Israel; they are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Numbers:18:7 @ And you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any one else who comes near shall be put to death."

rsv@Numbers:18:9 @ This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire; every offering of theirs, every cereal offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.

rsv@Numbers:18:12 @ All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.

rsv@Numbers:18:15 @ Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours; nevertheless the first-born of man you shall redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem.

rsv@Numbers:18:18 @ but their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.

rsv@Numbers:18:19 @ All the holy offerings which the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you."

rsv@Numbers:18:21 @ "To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, their service in the tent of meeting.

rsv@Numbers:18:22 @ And henceforth the people of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

rsv@Numbers:18:23 @ But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

rsv@Numbers:18:24 @ For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as an offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel."

rsv@Numbers:18:25 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:18:26 @ "Moreover you shall say to the Levites, `When you take from the people of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present an offering from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.

rsv@Numbers:18:27 @ And your offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the wine press.

rsv@Numbers:18:28 @ So shall you also present an offering to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel; and from it you shall give the LORD's offering to Aaron the priest.

rsv@Numbers:18:29 @ Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the LORD, from all the best of them, giving the hallowed part from them.'

rsv@Numbers:18:30 @ Therefore you shall say to them, `When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the wine press;

rsv@Numbers:18:32 @ And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered the best of it. And you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.'"

rsv@Numbers:19:1 @ Now the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:19:3 @ And you shall give her to Elea'zar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him;

rsv@Numbers:19:4 @ and Elea'zar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

rsv@Numbers:19:5 @ And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned;

rsv@Numbers:19:6 @ and the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

rsv@Numbers:19:7 @ Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening.

rsv@Numbers:19:8 @ He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

rsv@Numbers:19:9 @ And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin.

rsv@Numbers:19:10 @ And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual statute.

rsv@Numbers:19:11 @ "He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days;

rsv@Numbers:19:12 @ he shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean; but if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.

rsv@Numbers:19:13 @ Whoever touches a dead person, the body of any man who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

rsv@Numbers:19:14 @ "This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

rsv@Numbers:19:15 @ And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean.

rsv@Numbers:19:16 @ Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

rsv@Numbers:19:17 @ For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel;

rsv@Numbers:19:19 @ and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.

rsv@Numbers:19:20 @ "But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; because the water for impurity has not been thrown upon him, he is unclean.

rsv@Numbers:19:21 @ And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

rsv@Numbers:19:22 @ And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening."

rsv@Numbers:20:1 @ And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

rsv@Numbers:20:2 @ Now there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

rsv@Numbers:20:3 @ And the people contended with Moses, and said, "Would that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

rsv@Numbers:20:4 @ Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?

rsv@Numbers:20:5 @ And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; and there is no water to drink."

rsv@Numbers:20:6 @ Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,

rsv@Numbers:20:7 @ and the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:20:8 @ "Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water; so you shall bring water out of the rock for them; so you shall give drink to the congregation and their cattle."

rsv@Numbers:20:9 @ And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.

rsv@Numbers:20:10 @ And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?"

rsv@Numbers:20:11 @ And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

rsv@Numbers:20:12 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."

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:20:14 @ Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us:

rsv@Numbers:20:16 @ and when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us forth out of Egypt; and here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

rsv@Numbers:20:18 @ But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."

rsv@Numbers:20:22 @ And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

rsv@Numbers:20:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,

rsv@Numbers:20:27 @ Moses did as the LORD commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

rsv@Numbers:20:28 @ And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Elea'zar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Elea'zar came down from the mountain.

rsv@Numbers:21:2 @ And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."

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:21:5 @ And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food."

rsv@Numbers:21:7 @ And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

rsv@Numbers:21:8 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

rsv@Numbers:21:9 @ So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

rsv@Numbers:21:11 @ And they set out from Oboth, and encamped at I'ye-ab'arim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.

rsv@Numbers:21:13 @ From there they set out, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that extends from the boundary of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

rsv@Numbers:21:16 @ And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

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:21:20 @ 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:21:21 @ Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

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:21:24 @ And Israel slew him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites; for Jazer was the boundary of the Ammonites.

rsv@Numbers:21:25 @ And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

rsv@Numbers:21:26 @ For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

rsv@Numbers:21:27 @ Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built, let the city of Sihon be established.

rsv@Numbers:21:28 @ For fire went forth from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the heights of the Arnon.

rsv@Numbers:21:29 @ Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.

rsv@Numbers:21:30 @ So their posterity perished from Heshbon, as far as Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Med'eba."

rsv@Numbers:21:31 @ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

rsv@Numbers:21:32 @ And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.

rsv@Numbers:21:34 @ But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him; for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon."

rsv@Numbers:21:35 @ So they slew him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not one survivor left to him; and they possessed his land.

rsv@Numbers:22:2 @ And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

rsv@Numbers:22:5 @ sent messengers to Balaam the son of Be'or at Pethor, which is near the River, in the land of Amaw to call him, saying, "Behold, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me.

rsv@Numbers:22:6 @ Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

rsv@Numbers:22:7 @ So the elders of Moab and the elders of Mid'ian departed with the fees for divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message.

rsv@Numbers:22:8 @ And he said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me"; so the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

rsv@Numbers:22:9 @ And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"

rsv@Numbers:22:12 @ God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed."

rsv@Numbers:22:13 @ So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land; for the LORD has refused to let me go with you."

rsv@Numbers:22:14 @ So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

rsv@Numbers:22:15 @ Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than they.

rsv@Numbers:22:18 @ But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

rsv@Numbers:22:21 @ So Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

rsv@Numbers:22:25 @ And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall, and pressed Balaam's foot against the wall; so he struck her again.

rsv@Numbers:22:28 @ Then the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

rsv@Numbers:22:31 @ Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

rsv@Numbers:22:32 @ And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me;

rsv@Numbers:22:33 @ and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have slain you and let her live."

rsv@Numbers:22:35 @ And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak." So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

rsv@Numbers:22:40 @ And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and to the princes who were with him.

rsv@Numbers:22:41 @ And on the morrow Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-ba'al; and from there he saw the nearest of the people.

rsv@Numbers:23:3 @ And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height.

rsv@Numbers:23:6 @ And he returned to him, and lo, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.

rsv@Numbers:23:11 @ And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them."

rsv@Numbers:23:13 @ And Balak said to him, "Come with me to another place, from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there."

rsv@Numbers:23:15 @ Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder."

rsv@Numbers:23:17 @ And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"

rsv@Numbers:23:20 @ Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

rsv@Numbers:23:24 @ Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down till it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

rsv@Numbers:23:25 @ And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."

rsv@Numbers:23:28 @ So Balak took Balaam to the top of Pe'or, that overlooks the desert.

rsv@Numbers:24:1 @ When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

rsv@Numbers:24:2 @ And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and saw Israel encamping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,

rsv@Numbers:24:4 @ the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:

rsv@Numbers:24:6 @ Like valleys that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.

rsv@Numbers:24:8 @ God brings him out of Egypt; he has as it were the horns of the wild ox, he shall eat up the nations his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows.

rsv@Numbers:24:9 @ He couched, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed be every one who blesses you, and cursed be every one who curses you."

rsv@Numbers:24:10 @ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.

rsv@Numbers:24:12 @ And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

rsv@Numbers:24:16 @ the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:

rsv@Numbers:24:18 @ Edom shall be dispossessed, Se'ir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed, while Israel does valiantly.

rsv@Numbers:24:19 @ By Jacob shall dominion be exercised, and the survivors of cities be destroyed!"

rsv@Numbers:24:20 @ Then he looked on Am'alek, and took up his discourse, and said, "Am'alek was the first of the nations, but in the end he shall come to destruction."

rsv@Numbers:24:21 @ And he looked on the Ken'ite, and took up his discourse, and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock;

rsv@Numbers:24:22 @ nevertheless Kain shall be wasted. How long shall Asshur take you away captive?"

rsv@Numbers:24:23 @ And he took up his discourse, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?

rsv@Numbers:24:24 @ But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall come to destruction."

rsv@Numbers:25:2 @ These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

rsv@Numbers:25:4 @ and the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."

rsv@Numbers:25:5 @ And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Every one of you slay his men who have yoked themselves to Ba'al of Pe'or."

rsv@Numbers:25:6 @ And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Mid'ianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.

rsv@Numbers:25:7 @ When Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand

rsv@Numbers:25:9 @ Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@Numbers:25:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:25:11 @ "Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

rsv@Numbers:25:13 @ and it shall be to him, and to his descendants after him, the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"

rsv@Numbers:25:14 @ The name of the slain man of Israel, who was slain with the Mid'ianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, head of a fathers' house belonging to the Simeonites.

rsv@Numbers:25:16 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:25:17 @ "Harass the Mid'ianites, and smite them;

rsv@Numbers:25:18 @ for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Pe'or, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Mid'ian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague on account of Pe'or."

rsv@Numbers:26:1 @ After the plague the LORD said to Moses and to Elea'zar the son of Aaron, the priest,

rsv@Numbers:26:2 @ "Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war."

rsv@Numbers:26:3 @ And Moses and Elea'zar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

rsv@Numbers:26:4 @ "Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the LORD commanded Moses. The people of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt, were:

rsv@Numbers:26:5 @ Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Ha'nochites; of Pallu, the family of the Pal'luites;

rsv@Numbers:26:6 @ of Hezron, the family of the Hez'ronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

rsv@Numbers:26:7 @ These are the families of the Reubenites; and their number was forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

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:26:12 @ The sons of Simeon according to their families: of Nem'uel, the family of the Nem'uelites; of Jamin, the family of the Ja'minites; of Jachin, the family of the Ja'chinites;

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

rsv@Numbers:26:14 @ These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

rsv@Numbers:26:15 @ The sons of Gad according to their families: of Zephon, the family of the Ze'phonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

rsv@Numbers:26:16 @ of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

rsv@Numbers:26:17 @ of Ar'od, the family of the Ar'odites; of Are'li, the family of the Are'lites.

rsv@Numbers:26:18 @ These are the families of the sons of Gad according to their number, forty thousand five hundred.

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:26:21 @ And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hez'ronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamu'lites.

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:26:24 @ of Jashub, the family of the Jash'ubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shim'ronites.

rsv@Numbers:26:25 @ These are the families of Is'sachar according to their number, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

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:26:27 @ These are the families of the Zeb'ulunites according to their number, sixty thousand five hundred.

rsv@Numbers:26:28 @ The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manas'seh and E'phraim.

rsv@Numbers:26:29 @ The sons of Manas'seh: of Machir, the family of the Ma'chirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

rsv@Numbers:26:30 @ These are the sons of Gilead: of Ie'zer, the family of the Ie'zerites; of Helek, the family of the He'lekites;

rsv@Numbers:26:31 @ and of As'riel, the family of the As'rielites; and of Shechem, the family of the She'chemites;

rsv@Numbers:26:32 @ and of Shemi'da, the family of the Shemi'daites; and of Hepher, the family of the He'pherites.

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:26:34 @ These are the families of Manas'seh; and their number was fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

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:26:37 @ These are the families of the sons of E'phraim according to their number, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

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:26:39 @ of Shephu'pham, the family of the Shu'phamites; of Hupham, the family of the Hu'phamites.

rsv@Numbers:26:40 @ And the sons of Bela were Ard and Na'aman: of Ard, the family of the Ard'ites; of Na'aman, the family of the Na'amites.

rsv@Numbers:26:41 @ These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and their number was forty-five thousand six hundred.

rsv@Numbers:26:42 @ These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shu'hamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families.

rsv@Numbers:26:43 @ All the families of the Shu'hamites, according to their number, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

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:26:47 @ These are the families of the sons of Asher according to their number, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

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:26:49 @ of Jezer, the family of the Je'zerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shil'lemites.

rsv@Numbers:26:50 @ These are the families of Naph'tali according to their families; and their number was forty-five thousand four hundred.

rsv@Numbers:26:52 @ The LORD said to Moses:

rsv@Numbers:26:53 @ "To these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.

rsv@Numbers:26:55 @ But the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

rsv@Numbers:26:57 @ These are the Levites as numbered according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Ko'hathites; of Merar'i, the family of the Merar'ites.

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:26:59 @ The name of Amram's wife was Joch'ebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

rsv@Numbers:26:63 @ These were those numbered by Moses and Elea'zar the priest, who numbered the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

rsv@Numbers:26:64 @ But among these there was not a man of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had numbered the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

rsv@Numbers:26:65 @ For the LORD had said of them, "They shall die in the wilderness." There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephun'neh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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:27:2 @ And they stood before Moses, and before Elea'zar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

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:27:4 @ Why should the name of our father be taken away from his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brethren."

rsv@Numbers:27:5 @ Moses brought their case before the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:27:6 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:27:7 @ "The daughters of Zeloph'ehad are right; you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.

rsv@Numbers:27:8 @ And you shall say to the people of Israel, `If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

rsv@Numbers:27:11 @ And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be to the people of Israel a statute and ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"

rsv@Numbers:27:12 @ The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Ab'arim, and see the land which I have given to the people of Israel.

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:27:15 @ Moses said to the LORD,

rsv@Numbers:27:16 @ "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

rsv@Numbers:27:18 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him;

rsv@Numbers:27:19 @ cause him to stand before Elea'zar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.

rsv@Numbers:27:20 @ You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.

rsv@Numbers:27:21 @ And he shall stand before Elea'zar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD; at his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."

rsv@Numbers:27:22 @ And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; he took Joshua and caused him to stand before Elea'zar the priest and the whole congregation,

rsv@Numbers:27:23 @ and he laid his hands upon him, and commissioned him as the LORD directed through Moses.

rsv@Numbers:28:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:28:10 @ this is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:28:15 @ Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:28:23 @ You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

rsv@Numbers:28:24 @ In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:28:31 @ Besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish.

rsv@Numbers:29:6 @ besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its cereal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offering, according to the ordinance for them, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:29:7 @ "On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and afflict yourselves; you shall do no work,

rsv@Numbers:29:11 @ also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.

rsv@Numbers:29:16 @ also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:29:19 @ also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, and their drink offerings.

rsv@Numbers:29:22 @ also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:29:25 @ also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:29:28 @ also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:29:31 @ also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offerings.

rsv@Numbers:29:34 @ also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its cereal offering, and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:29:38 @ also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering and its drink offering.

rsv@Numbers:29:39 @ "These you shall offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your cereal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings."

rsv@Numbers:29:40 @ And Moses told the people of Israel everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:30:1 @ Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, "This is what the LORD has commanded.

rsv@Numbers:30:5 @ But if her father expresses disapproval to her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father opposed her.

rsv@Numbers:30:6 @ And if she is married to a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,

rsv@Numbers:30:7 @ and her husband hears of it, and says nothing to her on the day that he hears; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

rsv@Numbers:30:8 @ But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he expresses disapproval, then he shall make void her vow which was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips, by which she bound herself; and the LORD will forgive her.

rsv@Numbers:30:12 @ But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning her pledge of herself, shall not stand: her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.

rsv@Numbers:30:13 @ Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.

rsv@Numbers:30:14 @ But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her pledges, that are upon her; he has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them.

rsv@Numbers:30:15 @ But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity."

rsv@Numbers:30:16 @ These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while in her youth, within her father's house.

rsv@Numbers:31:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:31:2 @ "Avenge the people of Israel on the Mid'ianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

rsv@Numbers:31:3 @ And Moses said to the people, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Mid'ian, to execute the LORD's vengeance on Mid'ian.

rsv@Numbers:31:4 @ You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war."

rsv@Numbers:31:6 @ And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

rsv@Numbers:31:7 @ They warred against Mid'ian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and slew every male.

rsv@Numbers:31:8 @ They slew the kings of Mid'ian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Mid'ian; and they also slew Balaam the son of Be'or with the sword.

rsv@Numbers:31:9 @ And the people of Israel took captive the women of Mid'ian and their little ones; and they took as booty all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.

rsv@Numbers:31:10 @ All their cities in the places where they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,

rsv@Numbers:31:12 @ Then they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to Moses, and to Elea'zar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

rsv@Numbers:31:13 @ Moses, and Elea'zar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.

rsv@Numbers:31:14 @ And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

rsv@Numbers:31:15 @ Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?

rsv@Numbers:31:16 @ Behold, these caused the people of Israel, by the counsel of Balaam, to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Pe'or, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:31:17 @ Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

rsv@Numbers:31:18 @ But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

rsv@Numbers:31:19 @ Encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever of you has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

rsv@Numbers:31:21 @ And Elea'zar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

rsv@Numbers:31:23 @ everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.

rsv@Numbers:31:24 @ You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

rsv@Numbers:31:25 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:31:26 @ "Take the count of the booty that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Elea'zar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation;

rsv@Numbers:31:28 @ And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the flocks;

rsv@Numbers:31:29 @ take it from their half, and give it to Elea'zar the priest as an offering to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:31:30 @ And from the people of Israel's half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the LORD."

rsv@Numbers:31:31 @ And Moses and Elea'zar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:31:34 @ sixty-one thousand asses,

rsv@Numbers:31:39 @ The asses were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD's tribute was sixty-one.

rsv@Numbers:31:41 @ And Moses gave the tribute, which was the offering for the LORD, to Elea'zar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:31:42 @ From the people of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had gone to war--

rsv@Numbers:31:45 @ and thirty thousand five hundred asses,

rsv@Numbers:31:47 @ from the people of Israel's half Moses took one of every fifty, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Numbers:31:48 @ Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:31:49 @ and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.

rsv@Numbers:31:50 @ And we have brought the LORD's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."

rsv@Numbers:31:51 @ And Moses and Elea'zar the priest received from them the gold, all wrought articles.

rsv@Numbers:31:54 @ And Moses and Elea'zar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:32:2 @ So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Elea'zar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation,

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

rsv@Numbers:32:5 @ And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not take us across the Jordan."

rsv@Numbers:32:6 @ But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, "Shall your brethren go to the war while you sit here?

rsv@Numbers:32:8 @ Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Ka'desh-bar'nea to see the land.

rsv@Numbers:32:9 @ For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land which the LORD had given them.

rsv@Numbers:32:13 @ And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed.

rsv@Numbers:32:15 @ For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."

rsv@Numbers:32:16 @ Then they came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our little ones,

rsv@Numbers:32:17 @ but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

rsv@Numbers:32:18 @ We will not return to our homes until the people of Israel have inherited each his inheritance.

rsv@Numbers:32:20 @ So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war,

rsv@Numbers:32:21 @ and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him

rsv@Numbers:32:22 @ and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:32:24 @ Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do what you have promised."

rsv@Numbers:32:25 @ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

rsv@Numbers:32:26 @ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gilead;

rsv@Numbers:32:28 @ So Moses gave command concerning them to Elea'zar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.

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

rsv@Numbers:32:30 @ but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

rsv@Numbers:32:32 @ We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan."

rsv@Numbers:32:33 @ And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manas'seh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.

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

rsv@Numbers:32:37 @ And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elea'leh, Kiriatha'im,

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:32:39 @ And the sons of Machir the son of Manas'seh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

rsv@Numbers:32:40 @ And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manas'seh, and he settled in it.

rsv@Numbers:32:41 @ And Ja'ir the son of Manas'seh went and took their villages, and called them Hav'voth-ja'ir.

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

rsv@Numbers:33:1 @ These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

rsv@Numbers:33:2 @ Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD; and these are their stages according to their starting places.

rsv@Numbers:33:3 @ They set out from Ram'eses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

rsv@Numbers:33:5 @ So the people of Israel set out from Ram'eses, and encamped at Succoth.

rsv@Numbers:33:6 @ And they set out from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

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:33:11 @ And they set out from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

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

rsv@Numbers:33:15 @ And they set out from Reph'idim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

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

rsv@Numbers:33:36 @ And they set out from E'zion-ge'ber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).

rsv@Numbers:33:37 @ And they set out from Kadesh, and encamped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

rsv@Numbers:33:38 @ And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

rsv@Numbers:33:49 @ they encamped by the Jordan from Beth-jes'himoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

rsv@Numbers:33:50 @ And the LORD said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,

rsv@Numbers:33:52 @ then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places;

rsv@Numbers:33:53 @ and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.

rsv@Numbers:33:54 @ You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.

rsv@Numbers:33:55 @ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

rsv@Numbers:34:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:34:3 @ your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern boundary shall be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east;

rsv@Numbers:34:4 @ and your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrab'bim, and cross to Zin, and its end shall be south of Ka'desh-bar'nea; then it shall go on to Ha'zar-ad'dar, and pass along to Azmon;

rsv@Numbers:34:6 @ "For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

rsv@Numbers:34:12 @ and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all round."

rsv@Numbers:34:13 @ Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe;

rsv@Numbers:34:14 @ for the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manas'seh;

rsv@Numbers:34:15 @ the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

rsv@Numbers:34:16 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:34:17 @ "These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Elea'zar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

rsv@Numbers:34:29 @ These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan."

rsv@Numbers:35:1 @ The LORD said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,

rsv@Numbers:35:2 @ "Command the people of Israel, that they give to the Levites, from the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands round about the cities.

rsv@Numbers:35:3 @ The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.

rsv@Numbers:35:4 @ The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all round.

rsv@Numbers:35:5 @ And you shall measure, outside the city, for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle; this shall belong to them as pasture land for their cities.

rsv@Numbers:35:6 @ The cities which you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

rsv@Numbers:35:7 @ All the cities which you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasture lands.

rsv@Numbers:35:8 @ And as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance which it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites."

rsv@Numbers:35:9 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:35:11 @ then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.

rsv@Numbers:35:12 @ The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

rsv@Numbers:35:13 @ And the cities which you give shall be your six cities of refuge.

rsv@Numbers:35:14 @ You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.

rsv@Numbers:35:15 @ These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that any one who kills any person without intent may flee there.

rsv@Numbers:35:24 @ then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances;

rsv@Numbers:35:25 @ and the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

rsv@Numbers:35:28 @ For the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

rsv@Numbers:35:29 @ "And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

rsv@Numbers:35:30 @ If any one kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses; but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

rsv@Numbers:35:32 @ And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.

rsv@Numbers:35:33 @ You shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

rsv@Numbers:36:1 @ The heads of the fathers' houses of the families of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manas'seh, of the fathers' houses of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel;

rsv@Numbers:36:3 @ But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

rsv@Numbers:36:4 @ And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."

rsv@Numbers:36:5 @ And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph is right.

rsv@Numbers:36:6 @ This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zeloph'ehad, `Let them marry whom they think best; only, they shall marry within the family of the tribe of their father.

rsv@Numbers:36:8 @ And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

rsv@Numbers:36:9 @ So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall cleave to its own inheritance.'"

rsv@Numbers:36:10 @ The daughters of Zeloph'ehad did as the LORD commanded Moses;

rsv@Numbers:36:12 @ They were married into the families of the sons of Manas'seh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

rsv@Numbers:36:13 @ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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:1:2 @ It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Se'ir to Ka'desh-bar'nea.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:3 @ And in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:4 @ after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ash'taroth and in Ed're-i.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:5 @ Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,

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:1:11 @ May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:13 @ Choose wise, understanding, and experienced men, according to your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:15 @ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:16 @ And I charged your judges at that time, `Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien that is with him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:19 @ "And we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Ka'desh-bar'nea.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:20 @ And I said to you, `You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives us.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:21 @ Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you; do not fear or be dismayed.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:22 @ Then all of you came near me, and said, `Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:24 @ and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:25 @ And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, `It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:27 @ and you murmured in your tents, and said, `Because the LORD hated us he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:28 @ Whither are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:30 @ The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:31 @ and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:35 @ `Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:39 @ Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:40 @ But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:42 @ And the LORD said to me, `Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in the midst of you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:43 @ So I spoke to you, and you would not hearken; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD, and were presumptuous and went up into the hill country.

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:1:46 @ So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:1 @ "Then we turned, and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me; and for many days we went about Mount Se'ir.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:4 @ And command the people, You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren the sons of Esau, who live in Se'ir; and they will be afraid of you. So take good heed;

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:5 @ do not contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Se'ir to Esau as a possession.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:7 @ For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; he knows your going through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.'

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:2:9 @ And the LORD said to me, `Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:11 @ like the Anakim they are also known as Reph'aim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:12 @ The Horites also lived in Se'ir formerly, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and settled in their stead; as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.)

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:14 @ And the time from our leaving Ka'desh-bar'nea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:15 @ For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:19 @ and when you approach the frontier of the sons of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:20 @ (That also is known as a land of Reph'aim; Reph'aim formerly lived there, but the Ammonites call them Zamzum'mim,

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:21 @ a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they dispossessed them, and settled in their stead;

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:22 @ as he did for the sons of Esau, who live in Se'ir, when he destroyed the Horites before them, and they dispossessed them, and settled in their stead even to this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:23 @ As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caph'torim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their stead.)

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:24 @ `Rise up, take your journey, and go over the valley of the Arnon; behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:25 @ This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:26 @ "So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Ked'emoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:29 @ as the sons of Esau who live in Se'ir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives to us.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:30 @ But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:31 @ And the LORD said to me, `Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:34 @ And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women, and children; we left none remaining;

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:35 @ only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:37 @ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God forbade us.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:2 @ But the LORD said to me, `Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:4 @ And we took all his cities at that time--there was not a city which we did not take from them--sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:5 @ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:6 @ And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:7 @ But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:8 @ So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:9 @ (the Sido'nians call Hermon Si'rion, while the Amorites call it Senir),

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:3:12 @ "When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities;

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:13 @ the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manas'seh. (The whole of that Bashan is called the land of Reph'aim.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:14 @ Ja'ir the Manas'site took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Gesh'urites and the Ma-ac'athites, and called the villages after his own name, Hav'voth-ja'ir, as it is to this day.)

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:16 @ and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a boundary, as far over as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites;

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:3:18 @ "And I commanded you at that time, saying, `The LORD your God has given you this land to possess; all your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethren the people of Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:19 @ But your wives, your little ones, and your cattle (I know that you have many cattle) shall remain in the cities which I have given you,

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:20 @ until the LORD gives rest to your brethren, as to you, and they also occupy the land which the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan; then you shall return every man to his possession which I have given you.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:21 @ And I commanded Joshua at that time, `Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you are going over.

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:23 @ "And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

rsv@Deuteronomy:3:24 @ `O Lord GOD, thou hast only begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as thine?

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:3:28 @ But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him; for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land which you shall see.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:1 @ "And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:3 @ Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Ba'al-pe'or; for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Ba'al of Pe'or;

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:5 @ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:6 @ Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, `Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:8 @ And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day?

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:9 @ "Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children--

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:11 @ And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:13 @ And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:14 @ And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:15 @ "Therefore take good heed to yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:16 @ beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:17 @ the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:18 @ the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:19 @ And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:20 @ But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:21 @ Furthermore the LORD was angry with me on your account, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:22 @ For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over and take possession of that good land.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:23 @ Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:26 @ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:27 @ And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:30 @ When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:31 @ for the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:34 @ Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:35 @ To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:37 @ And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:38 @ driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day;

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:40 @ Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for ever."

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:41 @ Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:42 @ that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:43 @ Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manas'sites.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:44 @ This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:45 @ these are the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:46 @ beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-pe'or, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:47 @ And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the 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:5:1 @ And Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:8 @ "`You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:11 @ "`You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:14 @ but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:16 @ "`Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:20 @ "`Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:21 @ "`Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:22 @ "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:23 @ And when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:24 @ and you said, `Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen God speak with man and man still live.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:26 @ For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire, as we have, and has still lived?

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:31 @ But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:33 @ You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:1 @ "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it;

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:2 @ that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:6 @ And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart;

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:8 @ And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:9 @ And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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:6:11 @ and houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:12 @ then take heed lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:14 @ You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:15 @ for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

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

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:17 @ You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:18 @ And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:19 @ by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:20 @ "When your son asks you in time to come, `What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD our God has commanded you?'

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:21 @ then you shall say to your son, `We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:22 @ and the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes;

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:24 @ And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:25 @ And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:1 @ "When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves,

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:2 @ and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:3 @ You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:4 @ For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:5 @ But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Ashe'rim, and burn their graven images with fire.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:6 @ "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:7 @ It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples;

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ but it is because the LORD loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:10 @ and requites to their face those who hate him, by destroying them; he will not be slack with him who hates him, he will requite him to his face.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:11 @ You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ "And because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keep;

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:13 @ he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:14 @ You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:15 @ And the LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but he will lay them upon all who hate you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:16 @ And you shall destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:17 @ "If you say in your heart, `These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:19 @ the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out; so will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:20 @ Moreover the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:22 @ The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:23 @ But the LORD your God will give them over to you, and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:24 @ And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven; not a man shall be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:25 @ The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:7:26 @ And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and become accursed like it; you shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is an accursed thing.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:1 @ "All the commandment which I command you this day you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:2 @ And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:3 @ And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:4 @ Your clothing did not wear out upon you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:5 @ Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:8 @ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:9 @ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:10 @ And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:11 @ "Take heed lest you forget the LORD your God, by not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes, which I command you this day:

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:12 @ lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them,

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:15 @ who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:16 @ who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:17 @ Beware lest you say in your heart, `My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:18 @ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:8:20 @ Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:1 @ "Hear, O Israel; you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:3 @ Know therefore this day that he who goes over before you as a devouring fire is the LORD your God; he will destroy them and subdue them before you; so you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:4 @ "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, `It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.

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:9:6 @ "Know therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:7 @ Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you came out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:8 @ Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:9 @ When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:10 @ And the LORD gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:11 @ And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:12 @ Then the LORD said to me, `Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:14 @ let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:15 @ So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:16 @ And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:17 @ So I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:19 @ For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened to me that time also.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:20 @ And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:21 @ Then I took the sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:23 @ And when the LORD sent you from Ka'desh-bar'nea, saying, `Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and did not believe him or obey his voice.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ "So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:9:26 @ And I prayed to the LORD, `O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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:9:28 @ lest the land from which thou didst bring us say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness."

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:1 @ "At that time the LORD said to me, `Hew two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:2 @ And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:3 @ So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:4 @ And he wrote on the tables, as at the first writing, the ten commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:5 @ Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.

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:10:8 @ At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:10 @ "I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkened to me that time also; the LORD was unwilling to destroy you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:11 @ And the LORD said to me, `Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:12 @ "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:13 @ and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I command you this day for your good?

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:15 @ yet the LORD set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:16 @ Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:17 @ For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:18 @ He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:21 @ He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:1 @ "You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments always.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:2 @ And consider this day (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:4 @ and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:5 @ and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:7 @ for your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which he did.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:8 @ "You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:9 @ and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:10 @ For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables;

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:11 @ but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:12 @ a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:16 @ Take heed lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:17 @ and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there be no rain, and the land yield no fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the LORD gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:18 @ "You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:20 @ And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:23 @ then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:24 @ Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphra'tes, to the western sea.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:26 @ "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:27 @ the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:29 @ And when the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Ger'izim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

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:11:31 @ For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the LORD your God gives you; and when you possess it and live in it,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:32 @ you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:1 @ "These are the statutes and ordinances which you shall be careful to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live upon the earth.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:2 @ You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:3 @ you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Ashe'rim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:5 @ But you shall seek the place which the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there; thither you shall go,

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:6 @ and thither you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:7 @ and there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:8 @ You shall not do according to all that we are doing here this day, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:9 @ for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:10 @ But when you go over the Jordan, and live in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you live in safety,

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:11 @ then to the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:14 @ but at the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:15 @ "However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:17 @ You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering that you present;

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:20 @ "When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, `I will eat flesh,' because you crave flesh, you may eat as much flesh as you desire.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:21 @ If the place which the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your towns as much as you desire.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:23 @ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:27 @ and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:28 @ Be careful to heed all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you for ever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:29 @ "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:30 @ take heed that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, `How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do likewise.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:12:31 @ You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abominable thing which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:1 @ "If a prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:2 @ and the sign or wonder which he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, `Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, `and let us serve them,'

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:3 @ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:6 @ "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known,

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:7 @ some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:10 @ You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:11 @ And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:12 @ "If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell there,

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:15 @ you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it utterly, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:17 @ None of the devoted things shall cleave to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:1 @ "You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:2 @ For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:4 @ These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:7 @ Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:8 @ And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:9 @ "Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:10 @ And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:12 @ But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:21 @ "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:22 @ "You shall tithe all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from the field year by year.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:24 @ And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to bring the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:25 @ then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses,

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:26 @ and spend the money for whatever you desire, oxen, or sheep, or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:29 @ and the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:4 @ But there will be no poor among you (for the LORD will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess),

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:6 @ For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:7 @ "If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:9 @ Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, `The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:10 @ You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:14 @ you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press; as the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:16 @ But if he says to you, `I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you,

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:18 @ It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:19 @ "All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:4 @ No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:5 @ You may not offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you;

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:10 @ Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you;

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:11 @ and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:12 @ You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:13 @ "You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, when you make your ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine press;

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:14 @ you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:15 @ For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place which the LORD will choose; because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:16 @ "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place which he will choose: at the feast of unleavened bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed;

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:17 @ every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:18 @ "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:19 @ You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:20 @ Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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:16:22 @ And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ "If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:5 @ then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:6 @ On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:7 @ The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:8 @ "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns which is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God will choose,

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ and coming to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:13 @ And all the people shall hear, and fear, and not act presumptuously again.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:14 @ "When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, `I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me';

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ Only he must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, `You shall never return that way again.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:17 @ And he shall not multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:18 @ "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in the charge of the Levitical priests;

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them;

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:1 @ "The Levitical priests, that is, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings by fire to the LORD, and his rightful dues.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:3 @ And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:5 @ For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives--and he may come when he desires--to the place which the LORD will choose,

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ then he may minister in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:9 @ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:10 @ There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD; and because of these abominable practices the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:13 @ You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:14 @ For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:16 @ just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, `Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:20 @ But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:22 @ when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:1 @ "When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:2 @ you shall set apart three cities for you in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:3 @ You shall prepare the roads, and divide into three parts the area of the land which the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:5 @ as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies--he may flee to one of these cities and save his life;

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:6 @ lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and wound him mortally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he was not at enmity with his neighbor in time past.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:7 @ Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:8 @ And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers--

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:9 @ provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways--then you shall add three other cities to these three,

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:10 @ lest innocent blood be shed in your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:11 @ "But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and attacks him, and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the man flees into one of these cities,

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:14 @ "In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:15 @ "A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:16 @ If a malicious witness rises against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:17 @ then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days;

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:18 @ the judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:20 @ And the rest shall hear, and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:1 @ "When you go forth to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:2 @ And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people,

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:3 @ and shall say to them, `Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; do not fear, or tremble, or be in dread of them;

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:4 @ for the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:5 @ Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, `What man is there that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:6 @ And what man is there that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:7 @ And what man is there that has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:8 @ And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, 'What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest the heart of his fellows melt as his heart.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:12 @ But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it;

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:13 @ and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword,

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:14 @ but the women and the little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:15 @ Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:16 @ But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:17 @ but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites, the Hivites and the Jeb'usites, as the LORD your God has commanded;

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:18 @ that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods, and so to sin against the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:19 @ "When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field men that they should be besieged by you?

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:20 @ Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:1 @ "If in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, any one is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:2 @ then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain;

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:3 @ and the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has never been worked and which has not pulled in the yoke.

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:5 @ And the priests the sons of Levi shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:6 @ And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:7 @ and they shall testify, `Our hands did not shed this blood, neither did our eyes see it shed.

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:10 @ "When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hands, and you take them captive,

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:11 @ and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have desire for her and would take her for yourself as wife,

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:16 @ then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:19 @ then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:21 @ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:23 @ his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:2 @ And if he is not near you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:3 @ And so you shall do with his ass; so you shall do with his garment; so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not withhold your help.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:5 @ "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:6 @ "If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:9 @ "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary, the crop which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:13 @ "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, `I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,'

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ and lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, "I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity." And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:21 @ then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:23 @ "If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:24 @ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:25 @ "But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:27 @ because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:28 @ "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:1 @ "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:2 @ "No bastard shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:4 @ because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Be'or from Pethor of Mesopota'mia, to curse you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:5 @ Nevertheless the LORD your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:9 @ "When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:10 @ "If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what chances to him by night, then he shall go outside the camp, he shall not come within the camp;

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:11 @ but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:14 @ Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to save you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, that he may not see anything indecent among you, and turn away from you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:15 @ "You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you;

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:16 @ he shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place which he shall choose within one of your towns, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:18 @ You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:19 @ "You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money, interest on victuals, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:20 @ To a foreigner you may lend upon interest, but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest; that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:24 @ "When you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your vessel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ "When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:2 @ and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:3 @ and the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife,

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:4 @ then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:5 @ "When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:8 @ "Take heed, in an attack of leprosy, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you; as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ when the sun goes down, you shall restore to him the pledge that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:14 @ "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns;

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:15 @ you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin in you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:17 @ "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge;

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:19 @ "When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:20 @ When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:21 @ When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:1 @ "If there is a dispute between men, and they come into court, and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:3 @ Forty stripes may be given him, but not more; lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, `My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, `So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:11 @ "When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:14 @ You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:15 @ A full and just weight you shall have, a full and just measure you shall have; that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:16 @ For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:19 @ Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Am'alek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:1 @ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and have taken possession of it, and live in it,

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:2 @ you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:3 @ And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, `I declare this day to the LORD your God that I have come into the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:4 @ Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, `A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:7 @ Then we cried to the LORD the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression;

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:12 @ "When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your towns and be filled,

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:13 @ then you shall say before the LORD your God, `I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me; I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them;

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:15 @ Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:16 @ "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances; you shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ You have declared this day concerning the LORD that he is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances, and will obey his voice;

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:18 @ and the LORD has declared this day concerning you that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:1 @ Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:2 @ And on the day you pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall set up large stones, and plaster them with plaster;

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:3 @ and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you pass over to enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:4 @ And when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:5 @ And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall lift up no iron tool upon them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:6 @ You shall build an altar to the LORD your God of unhewn stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God;

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:8 @ And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly."

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:9 @ And Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:10 @ You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day."

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:11 @ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

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:27:13 @ And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zeb'ulun, Dan, and Naph'tali.

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:14 @ And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:15 @ "`Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:17 @ "`Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:19 @ "`Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:20 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered her who is his father's.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:21 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with any kind of beast.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:22 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:23 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:25 @ "`Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:27:26 @ "`Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:2 @ And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:3 @ Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:4 @ Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:5 @ Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:6 @ Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:7 @ "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:8 @ The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:9 @ The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:10 @ And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:12 @ The LORD will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:15 @ "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:20 @ "The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:21 @ The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:24 @ The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:25 @ "The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:28 @ The LORD will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind;

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:29 @ and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:31 @ Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:32 @ Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:33 @ A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually;

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:34 @ so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:35 @ The LORD will smite you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:37 @ And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:39 @ You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:40 @ You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:42 @ All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:45 @ All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:46 @ They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder, and upon your descendants for ever.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:47 @ "Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:48 @ therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:49 @ The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:51 @ and shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; who also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:52 @ They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:53 @ And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:55 @ so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:57 @ her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:59 @ then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:60 @ And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:61 @ Every sickness also, and every affliction which is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:63 @ And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:64 @ And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:65 @ And among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a languishing soul;

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:67 @ In the morning you shall say, `Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, `Would it were morning!' because of the dread which your heart shall fear, and the sights which your eyes shall see.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:68 @ And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey which I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no man will buy you."

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:1 @ These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them at Horeb.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:2 @ And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:3 @ the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders;

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:4 @ but to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:5 @ I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet;

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:7 @ And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them;

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:8 @ we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manas'sites.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:10 @ "You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:11 @ your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, both he who hews your wood and he who draws your water,

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:12 @ that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God makes with you this day;

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:29:17 @ and you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:18 @ Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:19 @ one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, `I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:20 @ The LORD would not pardon him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy would smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book would settle upon him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:21 @ And the LORD would single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:22 @ And the generation to come, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick--

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:27 @ therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book;

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:1 @ "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:3 @ then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:5 @ and the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, that you may possess it; and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:7 @ And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:10 @ if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:16 @ If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:18 @ I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:19 @ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live,

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:1 @ So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:3 @ The LORD your God himself will go over before you; he will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them; and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:4 @ And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:6 @ Be strong and of good courage, do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you."

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:7 @ Then Moses summoned Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall put them in possession of it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:8 @ It is the LORD who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you or forsake you; do not fear or be dismayed."

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:9 @ And Moses wrote this law, and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:10 @ And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of booths,

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:11 @ when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:12 @ Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:13 @ and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess."

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:14 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:16 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers; then this people will rise and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:17 @ Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, `Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:19 @ Now therefore write this song, and teach it to the people of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:20 @ For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:21 @ And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants); for I know the purposes which they are already forming, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give."

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:22 @ So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the people of Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:24 @ When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, to the very end,

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:25 @ Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD,

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:26 @ "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:28 @ Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:30 @ Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:3 @ For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:4 @ "The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:6 @ Do you thus requite the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:8 @ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:10 @ "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:11 @ Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:13 @ He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and he made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:14 @ Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat--and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:15 @ "But Jesh'urun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:16 @ They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:20 @ And he said, `I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:24 @ they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:25 @ In the open the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:27 @ had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, the LORD has not wrought all this."'

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:30 @ How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:31 @ For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

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:32:34 @ "Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:35 @ Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:36 @ For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:38 @ who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:39 @ "`See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:41 @ if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:42 @ I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh--with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:43 @ "Praise his people, O you nations; for he avenges the blood of his servants, and takes vengeance on his adversaries, and makes expiation for the land of his people."

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:44 @ Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:45 @ And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:47 @ For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess."

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:48 @ And the LORD said to Moses that very day,

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:49 @ "Ascend this mountain of the Ab'arim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho; and view the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel for a possession;

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:51 @ because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Mer'i-bath-ka'desh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:1 @ This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:2 @ He said, "The LORD came from Sinai, and dawned from Se'ir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran, he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:4 @ when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:5 @ Thus the LORD became king in Jesh'urun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

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:33:10 @ They shall teach Jacob thy ordinances, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thy altar.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:11 @ Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those that hate him, that they rise not again."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:12 @ Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the LORD, he dwells in safety by him; he encompasses him all the day long, and makes his dwelling between his shoulders."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:13 @ And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that couches beneath,

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:14 @ with the choicest fruits of the sun, and the rich yield of the months,

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:15 @ with the finest produce of the ancient mountains, and the abundance of the everlasting hills,

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:16 @ with the best gifts of the earth and its fulness, and the favor of him that dwelt in the bush. Let these come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that is prince among his brothers.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:17 @ His firstling bull has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall push the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; such are the ten thousands of E'phraim, and such are the thousands of Manas'seh."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:19 @ They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they suck the affluence of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:20 @ And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad couches like a lion, he tears the arm, and the crown of the head.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:21 @ He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came to the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the commands and just decrees of the LORD."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:23 @ And of Naph'tali he said, "O Naph'tali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:24 @ And of Asher he said, "Blessed above sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:26 @ "There is none like God, O Jesh'urun, who rides through the heavens to your help, and in his majesty through the skies.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:27 @ The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you, and said, Destroy.

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:29 @ Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you; and you shall tread upon their high places."

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:34:3 @ the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zo'ar.

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@Deuteronomy:34:5 @ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:7 @ Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:8 @ And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:9 @ And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; so the people of Israel obeyed him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:10 @ And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

rsv@Deuteronomy:34:12 @ and for all the mighty power and all the great and terrible deeds which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.

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

rsv@Joshua:1:2 @ "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:1:3 @ Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses.

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

rsv@Joshua:1:5 @ No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.

rsv@Joshua:1:7 @ Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

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

rsv@Joshua:1:11 @ "Pass through the camp, and command the people, `Prepare your provisions; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.'"

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

rsv@Joshua:1:13 @ "Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, `The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.'

rsv@Joshua:1:14 @ Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brethren and shall help them,

rsv@Joshua:1:15 @ until the LORD gives rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it, the land which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise."

rsv@Joshua:1:17 @ Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:2:17 @ The men said to her, "We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours which you have made us swear.

rsv@Joshua:2:19 @ If any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless; but if a hand is laid upon any one who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.

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

rsv@Joshua:3:3 @ and commanded the people, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it,

rsv@Joshua:3:5 @ And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."

rsv@Joshua:3:6 @ And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people." And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

rsv@Joshua:3:7 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:3:12 @ Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.

rsv@Joshua:3:13 @ And when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be stopped from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap."

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:3:17 @ And while all Israel were passing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.

rsv@Joshua:4:3 @ and command them, `Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.'"

rsv@Joshua:4:5 @ and Joshua said to them, "Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,

rsv@Joshua:4:6 @ that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, `What do those stones mean to you?'

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

rsv@Joshua:4:8 @ And the men of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, as the LORD told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

rsv@Joshua:4:9 @ And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.

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

rsv@Joshua:4:11 @ and when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.

rsv@Joshua:4:12 @ The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manas'seh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had bidden them;

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

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

rsv@Joshua:4:17 @ Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

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

rsv@Joshua:4:20 @ And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

rsv@Joshua:4:21 @ And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, `What do these stones mean?'

rsv@Joshua:4:24 @ so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God for ever."

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

rsv@Joshua:5:2 @ At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time."

rsv@Joshua:5:3 @ So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:5:6 @ For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the LORD; to them the LORD swore that he would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

rsv@Joshua:5:8 @ When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:5:14 @ And he said, "No; but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, "What does my lord bid his servant?"

rsv@Joshua:5:15 @ And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

rsv@Joshua:6:4 @ And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; and on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, the priests blowing the trumpets.

rsv@Joshua:6:6 @ So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."

rsv@Joshua:6:8 @ And as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.

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

rsv@Joshua:6:12 @ Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.

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

rsv@Joshua:6:15 @ On the seventh day they rose early at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times: it was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.

rsv@Joshua:6:16 @ And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout; for the LORD has given you the city.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:6:19 @ But all silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are sacred to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD."

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

rsv@Joshua:6:23 @ 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:6:24 @ And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:7:6 @ Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

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

rsv@Joshua:7:8 @ O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:7:14 @ In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes; and the tribe which the LORD takes shall come near by families; and the family which the LORD takes shall come near by households; and the household which the LORD takes shall come near man by man.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:7:24 @ 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:7:25 @ And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones; they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

rsv@Joshua:7:26 @ And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day; then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.

rsv@Joshua:8:2 @ and you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves; lay an ambush against the city, behind it."

rsv@Joshua:8:4 @ And he commanded them, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but hold yourselves all in readiness;

rsv@Joshua:8:9 @ So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

rsv@Joshua:8:12 @ And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

rsv@Joshua:8:13 @ So they stationed the forces, the main encampment which was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:8:20 @ So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:8:35 @ There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:9:5 @ with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and moldy.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:9:12 @ Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set forth to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and moldy;

rsv@Joshua:9:13 @ these wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they are burst; and these garments and shoes of ours are worn out from the very long journey."

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:9:20 @ This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them."

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

rsv@Joshua:9:24 @ They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; so we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:11 @ 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:10:12 @ Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ai'jalon."

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:18 @ And Joshua said, "Roll great stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them;

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:24 @ And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings." Then they came near, and put their feet on their necks.

rsv@Joshua:10:25 @ And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and of good courage; for thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight."

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

rsv@Joshua:10:27 @ but at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set great stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:42 @ And Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

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:11:4 @ And they came out, with all their troops, a great host, in number like the sand that is upon the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

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

rsv@Joshua:11:6 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel; you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire."

rsv@Joshua:11:9 @ And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:11:13 @ But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor only; that Joshua burned.

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

rsv@Joshua:11:15 @ As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:11:23 @ So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:12:3 @ 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:12:6 @ Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:12:9 @ the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

rsv@Joshua:12:22 @ the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jok'ne-am in Carmel, one;

rsv@Joshua:13:1 @ Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the LORD said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:13:7 @ Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manas'seh."

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:13:14 @ To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance; the offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

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

rsv@Joshua:13:17 @ with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Ba'moth-ba'al, and Beth-ba'al-me'on,

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

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

rsv@Joshua:13:22 @ Balaam also, the son of Be'or, the soothsayer, the people of Israel killed with the sword among the rest of their slain.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:13:27 @ 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:13:28 @ This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, with their cities and villages.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:13:33 @ But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them.

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

rsv@Joshua:14:2 @ Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD had commanded Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:14:7 @ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Ka'desh-bar'nea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

rsv@Joshua:14:9 @ And Moses swore on that day, saying, `Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children for ever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'

rsv@Joshua:14:10 @ And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.

rsv@Joshua:14:11 @ I am still as strong to this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war, and for going and coming.

rsv@Joshua:14:12 @ So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day; for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities: it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the LORD said."

rsv@Joshua:14:13 @ Then Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh for an inheritance.

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

rsv@Joshua:15:1 @ 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:15:2 @ And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward;

rsv@Joshua:15:3 @ it goes out southward of the ascent of Akrab'bim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Ka'desh-bar'nea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,

rsv@Joshua:15:4 @ passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:15:10 @ 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:15:14 @ 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:15:19 @ She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

rsv@Joshua:15:20 @ 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:15:23 @ Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

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

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

rsv@Joshua:15:32 @ Leba'oth, Shilhim, A'in, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities, with their villages.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:15:45 @ Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

rsv@Joshua:15:46 @ from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:15:47 @ Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coast-line.

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

rsv@Joshua:15:51 @ Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:15:60 @ 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:15:62 @ Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-ge'di: six cities with their villages.

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:16:6 @ 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:16:9 @ together with the towns which were set apart for the E'phraimites within the inheritance of the Manas'sites, all those towns with their villages.

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

rsv@Joshua:17:2 @ And allotments were made to the rest of the tribe of Manas'seh, by their families, Abi-e'zer, Helek, As'ri-el, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemi'da; these were the male descendants of Manas'seh the son of Joseph, 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:17:4 @ They came before Elea'zar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders, and said, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brethren." So according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:17:9 @ 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:17:11 @ Also in Is'sachar and in Asher Manas'seh had Beth-she'an and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Ta'anach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megid'do and its villages; the third is Naphath.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:17:14 @ And the tribe of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since hitherto the LORD has blessed me?"

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:18:2 @ There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned.

rsv@Joshua:18:3 @ So Joshua said to the people of Israel, "How long will you be slack to go in and take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?

rsv@Joshua:18:4 @ Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land, writing a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.

rsv@Joshua:18:6 @ And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:18:9 @ So the men went and passed up and down in the land and set down in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions; then they came to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh,

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

rsv@Joshua:18:12 @ On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan; then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward; and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-a'ven.

rsv@Joshua:18:13 @ From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (the same is Bethel), then the boundary goes down to At'aroth-ad'dar, upon the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-hor'on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:18:24 @ Che'phar-am'moni, Ophni, Geba--twelve cities with their villages:

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

rsv@Joshua:19:7 @ En-rimmon, Ether, and Ashan--four cities with their villages;

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

rsv@Joshua:19:11 @ then its boundary goes up westward, and on to Mar'eal, and touches Dab'besheth, then the brook which is east of Jok'ne-am;

rsv@Joshua:19:12 @ from Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chis'loth-ta'bor; thence it goes to Dab'erath, then up to Japhi'a;

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

rsv@Joshua:19:16 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Zeb'ulun, according to its families--these cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:17 @ The fourth lot came out for Is'sachar, for the tribe of Is'sachar, according to its families.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:19:23 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Is'sachar, according to its families--the cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:24 @ The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its families.

rsv@Joshua:19:26 @ Allam'melech, Amad, and Mishal; on the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-lib'nath,

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

rsv@Joshua:19:31 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher according to its families--these cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:32 @ The sixth lot came out for the tribe of Naph'tali, for the tribe of Naph'tali, according to its families.

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:19:35 @ The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chin'nereth,

rsv@Joshua:19:37 @ Kedesh, Ed're-i, En-ha'zor,

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

rsv@Joshua:19:39 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naph'tali according to its families--the cities with their villages.

rsv@Joshua:19:40 @ The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan, according to its families.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:19:48 @ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to their families--these cities with their villages.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:20:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, `Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

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

rsv@Joshua:20:5 @ And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the slayer into his hand; because he killed his neighbor unwittingly, having had no enmity against him in times past.

rsv@Joshua:20:6 @ And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time: then the slayer may go again to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'"

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:2 @ and they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasture lands for our cattle."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:12 @ But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh as his possession.

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:21:14 @ Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemo'a 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:21:18 @ An'athoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands--four cities.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:22 @ Kib'za-im with its pasture lands, Beth-hor'on with its pasture lands--four cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:24 @ Ai'jalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rim'mon with its pasture lands--four cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:25 @ and out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh, Ta'anach with its pasture lands, and Gath-rim'mon with its pasture lands--two cities.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:29 @ Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gan'nim with its pasture lands--four cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:31 @ Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands--four cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:32 @ and out of the tribe of Naph'tali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Ham'moth-dor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands--three cities.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:37 @ Ked'emoth with its pasture lands, and Meph'a-ath with its pasture lands--four cities;

rsv@Joshua:21:39 @ Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands--four cities in all.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:42 @ These cities had each its pasture lands round about it; so it was with all these cities.

rsv@Joshua:21:43 @ Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and having taken possession of it, they settled there.

rsv@Joshua:21:44 @ And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers; not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands.

rsv@Joshua:21:45 @ Not one of all the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

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

rsv@Joshua:22:2 @ and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you;

rsv@Joshua:22:3 @ you have not forsaken your brethren these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God.

rsv@Joshua:22:4 @ And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as he promised them; therefore turn and go to your home in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

rsv@Joshua:22:5 @ Take good care to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."

rsv@Joshua:22:6 @ So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their homes.

rsv@Joshua:22:7 @ Now to the one half of the tribe of Manas'seh Moses had given a possession in Bashan; but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brethren in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them,

rsv@Joshua:22:8 @ he said to them, "Go back to your homes with much wealth, and with very many cattle, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:22:17 @ Have we not had enough of the sin at Pe'or from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,

rsv@Joshua:22:19 @ But now, if your land is unclean, pass over into the LORD's land where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us; only do not rebel against the LORD, or make us as rebels by building yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:22:28 @ And we thought, If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, `Behold the copy of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:23:2 @ Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders and heads, their judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years;

rsv@Joshua:23:3 @ and you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.

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

rsv@Joshua:23:5 @ The LORD your God will push them back before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

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

rsv@Joshua:23:7 @ that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down yourselves to them,

rsv@Joshua:23:11 @ Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.

rsv@Joshua:23:12 @ For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

rsv@Joshua:23:13 @ know assuredly that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

rsv@Joshua:23:15 @ But just as all the good things which the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you,

rsv@Joshua:23:16 @ if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you."

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

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

rsv@Joshua:24:4 @ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Se'ir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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

rsv@Joshua:24:7 @ And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did to Egypt; and you lived in the wilderness a long time.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:24:13 @ I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you dwell therein; you eat the fruit of vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.'

rsv@Joshua:24:14 @ "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

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

rsv@Joshua:24:17 @ for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed;

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

rsv@Joshua:24:19 @ But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

rsv@Joshua:24:22 @ Then Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him." And they said, "We are witnesses."

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

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

rsv@Joshua:24:27 @ And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God."

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

rsv@Joshua:24:32 @ The bones of Joseph which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

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

rsv@Judges:1:2 @ 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:1:5 @ They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites.

rsv@Judges:1:6 @ Ado'ni-be'zek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:1:11 @ From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kir'iath-se'pher.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:1:19 @ 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:1:20 @ And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.

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

rsv@Judges:1:22 @ The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel; and the LORD was with them.

rsv@Judges:1:23 @ And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)

rsv@Judges:1:24 @ And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Pray, show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:1:31 @ 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:1:32 @ but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:2:1 @ Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you into the land which I swore to give to your fathers. I said, `I will never break my covenant with you,

rsv@Judges:2:2 @ and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my command. What is this you have done?

rsv@Judges:2:3 @ So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

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

rsv@Judges:2:5 @ And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to the LORD.

rsv@Judges:2:6 @ When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.

rsv@Judges:2:7 @ And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work which the LORD had done for Israel.

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

rsv@Judges:2:9 @ And they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance in Tim'nath-he'res, in the hill country of E'phraim, north of the mountain of Ga'ash.

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

rsv@Judges:2:11 @ And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Ba'als;

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

rsv@Judges:2:13 @ They forsook the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth.

rsv@Judges:2:14 @ So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

rsv@Judges:2:15 @ Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits.

rsv@Judges:2:16 @ Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them.

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

rsv@Judges:2:18 @ Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

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

rsv@Judges:2:20 @ So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not obeyed my voice,

rsv@Judges:2:21 @ I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,

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

rsv@Judges:2:23 @ So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out at once, and he did not give them into the power of Joshua.

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:3:7 @ And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, forgetting the LORD their God, and serving the Ba'als and the Ashe'roth.

rsv@Judges:3:8 @ Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cu'shan-rishatha'im king of Mesopota'mia; and the people of Israel served Cu'shan-rishatha'im eight years.

rsv@Judges:3:9 @ But when the people of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who delivered them, Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

rsv@Judges:3:10 @ The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel; he went out to war, and the LORD gave Cu'shan-rishatha'im king of Mesopota'mia into his hand; and his hand prevailed over Cu'shan-rishatha'im.

rsv@Judges:3:11 @ So the land had rest forty years. Then Oth'ni-el the son of Kenaz died.

rsv@Judges:3:12 @ And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:3:16 @ And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it on his right thigh under his clothes.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:3:20 @ And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat.

rsv@Judges:3:21 @ And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly;

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

rsv@Judges:3:23 @ Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber upon him, and locked them.

rsv@Judges:3:24 @ When he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "He is only relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."

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

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

rsv@Judges:3:27 @ When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of E'phraim; and the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, having him at their head.

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

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

rsv@Judges:3:30 @ So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

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

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

rsv@Judges:4:2 @ And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sis'era, who dwelt in Haro'sheth-ha-goiim.

rsv@Judges:4:3 @ Then the people of Israel cried to the LORD for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

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

rsv@Judges:4:7 @ And I will draw out Sis'era, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops; and I will give him into your hand.'"

rsv@Judges:4:8 @ Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."

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

rsv@Judges:4:12 @ When Sis'era was told that Barak the son of Abin'o-am had gone up to Mount Tabor,

rsv@Judges:4:13 @ Sis'era called out all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Haro'sheth-ha-goiim to the river Kishon.

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

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

rsv@Judges:4:16 @ And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Haro'sheth-ha-goiim, and all the army of Sis'era fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:4:23 @ So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.

rsv@Judges:4:24 @ And the hand of the people of Israel bore harder and harder on Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

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

rsv@Judges:5:2 @ "That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD!

rsv@Judges:5:3 @ "Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing, I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.

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

rsv@Judges:5:5 @ The mountains quaked before the LORD, yon Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@Judges:5:6 @ "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Ja'el, caravans ceased and travelers kept to the byways.

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

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

rsv@Judges:5:9 @ My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:5:13 @ Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the LORD marched down for him against the mighty.

rsv@Judges:5:14 @ From E'phraim they set out thither into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zeb'ulun those who bear the marshal's staff;

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:5:16 @ Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds, to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

rsv@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he abide with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, settling down by his landings.

rsv@Judges:5:18 @ Zeb'ulun is a people that jeoparded their lives to the death; Naph'tali too, on the heights of the field.

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

rsv@Judges:5:20 @ From heaven fought the stars, from their courses they fought against Sis'era.

rsv@Judges:5:21 @ The torrent Kishon swept them away, the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:5:27 @ He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.

rsv@Judges:5:28 @ "Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sis'era gazed through the lattice: `Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?'

rsv@Judges:5:29 @ Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,

rsv@Judges:5:30 @ `Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?--A maiden or two for every man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sis'era, spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?'

rsv@Judges:5:31 @ "So perish all thine enemies, O LORD! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.

rsv@Judges:6:1 @ The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of Mid'ian seven years.

rsv@Judges:6:2 @ And the hand of Mid'ian prevailed over Israel; and because of Mid'ian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves and the strongholds.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:6:6 @ And Israel was brought very low because of Mid'ian; and the people of Israel cried for help to the LORD.

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

rsv@Judges:6:8 @ the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel; and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage;

rsv@Judges:6:9 @ and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you, and gave you their land;

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

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

rsv@Judges:6:12 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor."

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

rsv@Judges:6:14 @ And the LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and deliver Israel from the hand of Mid'ian; do not I send you?"

rsv@Judges:6:15 @ And he said to him, "Pray, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manas'seh, and I am the least in my family."

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

rsv@Judges:6:17 @ And he said to him, "If now I have found favor with thee, then show me a sign that it is thou who speakest with me.

rsv@Judges:6:18 @ Do not depart from here, I pray thee, until I come to thee, and bring out my present, and set it before thee." And he said, "I will stay till you return."

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:6:20 @ And the angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them." And he did so.

rsv@Judges:6:21 @ Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and there sprang up fire from the rock and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

rsv@Judges:6:22 @ Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD; and Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face."

rsv@Judges:6:23 @ But the LORD said to him, "Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die."

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

rsv@Judges:6:28 @ 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:6:29 @ And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had made search and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Jo'ash has done this thing."

rsv@Judges:6:30 @ 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:6:31 @ But Jo'ash said to all who were arrayed against him, "Will you contend for Ba'al? Or will you defend his cause? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been pulled down."

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:6:35 @ And he sent messengers throughout all Manas'seh; and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zeb'ulun, and Naph'tali; and they went up to meet them.

rsv@Judges:6:36 @ Then Gideon said to God, "If thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

rsv@Judges:6:37 @ behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that thou wilt deliver Israel by my hand, as thou hast said."

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

rsv@Judges:6:39 @ Then Gideon said to God, "Let not thy anger burn against me, let me speak but this once; pray, let me make trial only this once with the fleece; pray, let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew."

rsv@Judges:6:40 @ And God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

rsv@Judges:7:1 @ Then Jerubba'al (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Mid'ian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:7:9 @ That same night the LORD said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp; for I have given it into your hand.

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

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

rsv@Judges:7:14 @ And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Jo'ash, a man of Israel; into his hand God has given Mid'ian and all the host."

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

rsv@Judges:7:16 @ And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.

rsv@Judges:7:17 @ And he said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise; when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.

rsv@Judges:7:18 @ When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, `For the LORD and for Gideon.'"

rsv@Judges:7:19 @ So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

rsv@Judges:7:20 @ And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow; and they cried, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"

rsv@Judges:7:21 @ They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the army ran; they cried out and fled.

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

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

rsv@Judges:7:25 @ And they took the two princes of Mid'ian, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the wine press of Zeeb, as they pursued Mid'ian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

rsv@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of E'phraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight with Mid'ian?" And they upbraided him violently.

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

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

rsv@Judges:8:4 @ And Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint yet pursuing.

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:8:8 @ And from there he went up to Penu'el, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penu'el answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

rsv@Judges:8:9 @ And he said to the men of Penu'el, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower."

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:8:13 @ Then Gideon the son of Jo'ash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

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

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

rsv@Judges:8:16 @ And he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth.

rsv@Judges:8:17 @ And he broke down the tower of Penu'el, and slew the men of the city.

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:8:19 @ And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother; as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not slay you."

rsv@Judges:8:20 @ And he said to Jether his first-born, "Rise, and slay them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.

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:8:22 @ Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Mid'ian."

rsv@Judges:8:23 @ Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you."

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

rsv@Judges:8:25 @ And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:8:29 @ Jerubba'al the son of Jo'ash went and dwelt in his own house.

rsv@Judges:8:30 @ Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.

rsv@Judges:8:31 @ And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abim'elech.

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

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

rsv@Judges:8:34 @ And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side;

rsv@Judges:8:35 @ and they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubba'al (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.

rsv@Judges:9:1 @ Now Abim'elech the son of Jerubba'al went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,

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

rsv@Judges:9:3 @ And his mother's kinsmen spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the men of Shechem; and their hearts inclined to follow Abim'elech, for they said, "He is our brother."

rsv@Judges:9:4 @ And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Ba'al-be'rith with which Abim'elech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.

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:9:6 @ And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abim'elech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.

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

rsv@Judges:9:8 @ The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, `Reign over us.'

rsv@Judges:9:9 @ But the olive tree said to them, `Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?'

rsv@Judges:9:10 @ And the trees said to the fig tree, `Come you, and reign over us.'

rsv@Judges:9:11 @ But the fig tree said to them, `Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?'

rsv@Judges:9:12 @ And the trees said to the vine, `Come you, and reign over us.'

rsv@Judges:9:13 @ But the vine said to them, `Shall I leave my wine which cheers gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?'

rsv@Judges:9:14 @ Then all the trees said to the bramble, `Come you, and reign over us.'

rsv@Judges:9:15 @ And the bramble said to the trees, `If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'

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

rsv@Judges:9:17 @ for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Mid'ian;

rsv@Judges:9:18 @ and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abim'elech, the son of his maidservant, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman--

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

rsv@Judges:9:20 @ but if not, let fire come out from Abim'elech, and devour the citizens of Shechem, and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem, and from Beth-millo, and devour Abim'elech."

rsv@Judges:9:21 @ And Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abim'elech his brother.

rsv@Judges:9:22 @ Abim'elech ruled over Israel three years.

rsv@Judges:9:23 @ And God sent an evil spirit between Abim'elech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abim'elech;

rsv@Judges:9:24 @ that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubba'al might come and their blood be laid upon Abim'elech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brothers.

rsv@Judges:9:25 @ And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abim'elech.

rsv@Judges:9:26 @ And Ga'al the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his kinsmen; and the men of Shechem put confidence in him.

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

rsv@Judges:9:28 @ And Ga'al the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abim'elech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Did not the son of Jerubba'al and Zebul his officer serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem? Why then should we serve him?

rsv@Judges:9:29 @ Would that this people were under my hand! then I would remove Abim'elech. I would say to Abim'elech, `Increase your army, and come out.'"

rsv@Judges:9:30 @ When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Ga'al the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

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:9:32 @ Now therefore, go by night, you and the men that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.

rsv@Judges:9:33 @ Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city; and when he and the men that are with him come out against you, you may do to them as occasion offers."

rsv@Judges:9:34 @ And Abim'elech and all the men that were with him rose up by night, and laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

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

rsv@Judges:9:36 @ And when Ga'al saw the men, he said to Zebul, "Look, men are coming down from the mountain tops!" And Zebul said to him, "You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men."

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

rsv@Judges:9:38 @ Then Zebul said to him, "Where is your mouth now, you who said, `Who is Abim'elech, that we should serve him?' Are not these the men whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them."

rsv@Judges:9:39 @ And Ga'al went out at the head of the men of Shechem, and fought with Abim'elech.

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

rsv@Judges:9:41 @ 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:9:42 @ On the following day the men went out into the fields. And Abim'elech was told.

rsv@Judges:9:43 @ He took his men and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the fields; and he looked and saw the men coming out of the city, and he rose against them and slew them.

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

rsv@Judges:9:45 @ And Abim'elech fought against the city all that day; he took the city, and killed the people that were in it; and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

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

rsv@Judges:9:47 @ Abim'elech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.

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

rsv@Judges:9:49 @ So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abim'elech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.

rsv@Judges:9:50 @ Then Abim'elech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

rsv@Judges:9:51 @ But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the people of the city fled to it, all the men and women, and shut themselves in; and they went to the roof of the tower.

rsv@Judges:9:52 @ And Abim'elech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

rsv@Judges:9:53 @ And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abim'elech's head, and crushed his skull.

rsv@Judges:9:54 @ Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, `A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

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

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

rsv@Judges:9:57 @ and God also made all the wickedness of the men of Shechem fall back upon their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubba'al.

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:10:2 @ And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir.

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

rsv@Judges:10:4 @ And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Hav'voth-ja'ir to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

rsv@Judges:10:5 @ And Ja'ir died, and was buried in Kamon.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:10:10 @ And the people of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Ba'als."

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

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

rsv@Judges:10:13 @ Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.

rsv@Judges:10:14 @ Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."

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

rsv@Judges:10:16 @ So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:11:2 @ 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:11:4 @ After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:11:10 @ 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:11:16 @ but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:11:24 @ Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.

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

rsv@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aro'er and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?

rsv@Judges:11:27 @ I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me; the LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:11:37 @ And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions."

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

rsv@Judges:11:39 @ And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made. She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:12:10 @ Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:12:14 @ He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; and he judged Israel eight years.

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

rsv@Judges:13:1 @ And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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:13:3 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

rsv@Judges:13:4 @ Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:13:12 @ 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:13:14 @ She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."

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:13:18 @ And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?"

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

rsv@Judges:13:24 @ And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

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

rsv@Judges:14:4 @ His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD; for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

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

rsv@Judges:14:7 @ Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

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

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

rsv@Judges:14:10 @ And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there; for so the young men used to do.

rsv@Judges:14:11 @ And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:14:19 @ And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ash'kelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.

rsv@Judges:14:20 @ And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

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

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

rsv@Judges:15:3 @ And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines, when I do them mischief."

rsv@Judges:15:4 @ So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches; and he turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

rsv@Judges:15:5 @ And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:15:9 @ 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:15:12 @ And they said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves."

rsv@Judges:15:13 @ They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

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

rsv@Judges:15:15 @ And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.

rsv@Judges:15:16 @ And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men."

rsv@Judges:15:17 @ When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ra'math-le'hi.

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

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

rsv@Judges:15:20 @ And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

rsv@Judges:16:1 @ Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went in to her.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:16:5 @ And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, "Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."

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:16:7 @ And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

rsv@Judges:16:8 @ Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

rsv@Judges:16:9 @ Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

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:16:11 @ And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

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:16:15 @ And she said to him, "How can you say, `I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies."

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

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

rsv@Judges:16:18 @ 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:16:19 @ She made him sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

rsv@Judges:16:20 @ And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." And he did not know that the LORD had left him.

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

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

rsv@Judges:16:23 @ Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."

rsv@Judges:16:24 @ And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us."

rsv@Judges:16:25 @ And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may make sport for us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them. They made him stand between the pillars;

rsv@Judges:16:26 @ and Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them."

rsv@Judges:16:27 @ Now the house was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about three thousand men and women, who looked on while Samson made sport.

rsv@Judges:16:28 @ Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes."

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

rsv@Judges:16:30 @ And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:17:6 @ In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:18:4 @ 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:18:5 @ And they said to him, "Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed."

rsv@Judges:18:6 @ And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD."

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:18:10 @ When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad; yea, God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:18:24 @ And he said, "You take my gods which I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, `What ails you?'"

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:18:28 @ And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any one. It was in the valley which belongs to Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city, and dwelt in it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:19:7 @ And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law urged him, till he lodged there again.

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

rsv@Judges:19:9 @ And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening; pray tarry all night. Behold, the day draws to its close; lodge here and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home."

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:19:13 @ 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:19:17 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? and whence do you come?"

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

rsv@Judges:19:19 @ We have straw and provender for our asses, with bread and wine for me and your maidservant and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything."

rsv@Judges:19:20 @ And the old man said, "Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants; only, do not spend the night in the square."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:19:28 @ He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her upon the ass; and the man rose up and went away to his home.

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

rsv@Judges:19:30 @ And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak."

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:5 @ 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:20:6 @ And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed abomination and wantonness in Israel.

rsv@Judges:20:7 @ Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."

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

rsv@Judges:20:9 @ 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:20:11 @ So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.

rsv@Judges:20:12 @ And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that has taken place among you?

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:20:16 @ Among all these were seven hundred picked men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair, and not miss.

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:19 @ 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:20:22 @ But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:27 @ And the people of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

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

rsv@Judges:20:29 @ 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:20:32 @ And the Benjaminites said, "They are routed before us, as at the first." But the men of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

rsv@Judges:20:33 @ And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Ba'al-ta'mar; and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place west of Geba.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:42 @ Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:45 @ And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways, and they were pursued hard to Gidom, and two thousand men of them were slain.

rsv@Judges:20:46 @ So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

rsv@Judges:20:47 @ But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and abode at the rock of Rimmon four months.

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:21:3 @ And they said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"

rsv@Judges:21:4 @ And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

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:21:6 @ And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.

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

rsv@Judges:21:8 @ 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:21:9 @ For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead was there.

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

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

rsv@Judges:21:12 @ And they found among the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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

rsv@Judges:21:14 @ And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Ja'besh-gil'ead; but they did not suffice for them.

rsv@Judges:21:15 @ And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

rsv@Judges:21:16 @ Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

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

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

rsv@Judges:21:19 @ 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@Judges:21:20 @ And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

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

rsv@Judges:21:22 @ And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, `Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'"

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

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

rsv@Judges:21:25 @ In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:4 @ And behold, Bo'az came from Bethlehem; and he said to the reapers, "The LORD be with you!" And they answered, "The LORD bless you."

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:10 @ Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?"

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:16 @ And also pull out some from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her."

rsv@Ruth:2:19 @ And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Bo'az."

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:23 @ So she kept close to the maidens of Bo'az, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

rsv@Ruth:3:2 @ Now is not Bo'az our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

rsv@Ruth:3:3 @ Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

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

rsv@Ruth:3:6 @ So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.

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

rsv@Ruth:3:13 @ Remain this night, and in the morning, if he will do the part of the next of kin for you, well; let him do it; but if he is not willing to do the part of the next of kin for you, then, as the LORD lives, I will do the part of the next of kin for you. Lie down until the morning."

rsv@Ruth:3:14 @ So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another; and he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

rsv@Ruth:3:15 @ And he said, "Bring the mantle you are wearing and hold it out." So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley, and laid it upon her; then she went into the city.

rsv@Ruth:3:17 @ saying, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, `You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'"

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:4:6 @ Then the next of kin said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it."

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

rsv@Ruth:4:9 @ 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:4:14 @ Then the women said to Na'omi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without next of kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel!

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

rsv@Ruth:4:17 @ And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Na'omi." They named him Obed; he was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

rsv@Ruth:4:18 @ Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

rsv@Ruth:4:22 @ Obed of Jesse, and Jesse of David.

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:1:3 @ Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phin'ehas, were priests of the LORD.

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:1:22 @ 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:1:26 @ And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:28 @ Therefore I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD." And they worshiped the LORD there.

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:2:2 @ "There is none holy like the LORD, there is none besides thee; there is no rock like our God.

rsv@1Samuel:2:5 @ Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

rsv@1Samuel:2:6 @ The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

rsv@1Samuel:2:7 @ The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.

rsv@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and on them he has set the world.

rsv@1Samuel:2:9 @ "He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:12 @ Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they had no regard for the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:2:13 @ The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:15 @ Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give meat for the priest to roast; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."

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:2:28 @ And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me; and I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:32 @ Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity which shall be bestowed upon Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house for ever.

rsv@1Samuel:2:33 @ The man of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his eyes and grieve his heart; and all the increase of your house shall die by the sword of men.

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:36 @ And every one who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Put me, I pray you, in one of the priest's places, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

rsv@1Samuel:3:2 @ At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place;

rsv@1Samuel:3:10 @ And the LORD came and stood forth, calling as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for thy servant hears."

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

rsv@1Samuel:3:20 @ And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:4:1 @ And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines; they encamped at Ebene'zer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.

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

rsv@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD put us to rout today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh, that he may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies."

rsv@1Samuel:4:5 @ When the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.

rsv@1Samuel:4:6 @ And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp,

rsv@1Samuel:4:7 @ the Philistines were afraid; for they said, "A god has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.

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

rsv@1Samuel:4:9 @ Take courage, and acquit yourselves like men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; acquit yourselves like men and fight."

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

rsv@1Samuel:4:12 @ A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.

rsv@1Samuel:4:15 @ Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

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

rsv@1Samuel:5:1 @ When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they carried it from Ebene'zer to Ashdod;

rsv@1Samuel:5:2 @ then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.

rsv@1Samuel:5:4 @ But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.

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

rsv@1Samuel:5:8 @ So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath." So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.

rsv@1Samuel:5:11 @ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not slay us and our people." For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;

rsv@1Samuel:6:1 @ The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

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

rsv@1Samuel:6:3 @ They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you."

rsv@1Samuel:6:4 @ And they said, "What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?" They answered, "Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for the same plague was upon all of you and upon your lords.

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

rsv@1Samuel:6:7 @ Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows upon which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.

rsv@1Samuel:6:8 @ And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart, and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off, and let it go its way.

rsv@1Samuel:6:9 @ And watch; if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-she'mesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us, it happened to us by chance."

rsv@1Samuel:6:10 @ The men did so, and took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

rsv@1Samuel:6:11 @ And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:6:14 @ The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-she'mesh, and stopped there. A great stone was there; and they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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

rsv@1Samuel:6:16 @ And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.

rsv@1Samuel:6:17 @ These are the golden tumors, which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ash'kelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

rsv@1Samuel:6:18 @ also the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone, beside which they set down the ark of the LORD, is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-she'mesh.

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

rsv@1Samuel:6:20 @ Then the men of Beth-she'mesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?"

rsv@1Samuel:6:21 @ So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kir'iath-je'arim, saying, "The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you."

rsv@1Samuel:7:3 @ Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ash'taroth from among you, and direct your heart to the LORD, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

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:7:8 @ And the people of Israel said to Samuel, "Do not cease to cry to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines."

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:7:12 @ 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:7:13 @ So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:1 @ When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:11 @ He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;

rsv@1Samuel:8:12 @ and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

rsv@1Samuel:8:14 @ He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.

rsv@1Samuel:8:16 @ He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:18 @ And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day."

rsv@1Samuel:8:20 @ that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles."

rsv@1Samuel:9:3 @ Now the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the servants with you, and arise, go and look for the asses."

rsv@1Samuel:9:5 @ When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the asses and become anxious about us."

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

rsv@1Samuel:9:7 @ Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What have we?"

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

rsv@1Samuel:9:16 @ "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the affliction of my people, because their cry has come to me."

rsv@1Samuel:9:20 @ As for your asses that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?"

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:3 @ Then you shall go on from there further and come to the oak of Tabor; three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

rsv@1Samuel:10:4 @ And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:6 @ Then the spirit of the LORD will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with them and be turned into another man.

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:9 @ When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all these signs came to pass that day.

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:10:11 @ And when all who knew him before saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, "What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?"

rsv@1Samuel:10:13 @ When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.

rsv@1Samuel:10:14 @ Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To seek the asses; and when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel."

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:18 @ and he said to the people of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:20 @ Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:27 @ But some worthless fellows said, "How can this man save us?" And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:11:5 @ Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen; and Saul said, "What ails the people, that they are weeping?" So they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

rsv@1Samuel:11:6 @ And the spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.

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

rsv@1Samuel:11:9 @ And they said to the messengers who had come, "Thus shall you say to the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead: `Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.'" When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:12:4 @ They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand."

rsv@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."

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

rsv@1Samuel:12:8 @ When Jacob went into Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

rsv@1Samuel:12:9 @ But they forgot the LORD their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sis'era, commander of the army of Jabin king of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

rsv@1Samuel:12:10 @ And they cried to the LORD, and said, `We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.'

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:12:16 @ Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

rsv@1Samuel:12:17 @ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king."

rsv@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a 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:13:3 @ Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines which was at Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you; for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for ever.

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:13:16 @ And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

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:13:18 @ another company turned toward Beth-hor'on, and another company turned toward the border that looks down upon the valley of Zebo'im toward the wilderness.

rsv@1Samuel:13:19 @ Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears";

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

rsv@1Samuel:13:21 @ and the charge was a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

rsv@1Samuel:13:23 @ And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

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:14:6 @ And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us; for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few."

rsv@1Samuel:14:7 @ And his armor-bearer said to him, "Do all that your mind inclines to; behold, I am with you, as is your mind so is mine."

rsv@1Samuel:14:8 @ Then said Jonathan, "Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.

rsv@1Samuel:14:11 @ So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hid themselves."

rsv@1Samuel:14:19 @ And while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand."

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:25 @ And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:27 @ But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; so he put forth the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes became bright.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:31 @ They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ai'jalon. And the people were very faint;

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:34 @ And Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, `Let every man bring his ox or his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:39 @ For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

rsv@1Samuel:14:41 @ Therefore Saul said, "O LORD God of Israel, why hast thou not answered thy servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O LORD, God of Israel, give Urim; but if this guilt is in thy people Israel, give Thummim." And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.

rsv@1Samuel:14:45 @ Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, that he did not die.

rsv@1Samuel:14:46 @ Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:52 @ There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:15:24 @ And Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

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

rsv@1Samuel:15:33 @ And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:16:8 @ Then Jesse called Abin'adab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

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

rsv@1Samuel:16:10 @ And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen these."

rsv@1Samuel:16:11 @ And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here."

rsv@1Samuel:16:12 @ And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he."

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

rsv@1Samuel:16:19 @ Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

rsv@1Samuel:16:20 @ And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a skin of wine and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:16:22 @ And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight."

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:1 @ 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:17:3 @ And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.

rsv@1Samuel:17:4 @ And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

rsv@1Samuel:17:6 @ And he had greaves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:11 @ When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

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:17:14 @ David was the youngest; the three eldest followed Saul,

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:19 @ Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:17:20 @ And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the encampment as the host was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry.

rsv@1Samuel:17:21 @ And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.

rsv@1Samuel:17:23 @ As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:26 @ And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

rsv@1Samuel:17:28 @ Now Eli'ab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eli'ab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart; for you have come down to see the battle."

rsv@1Samuel:17:36 @ Your servant has killed both lions and bears; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God."

rsv@1Samuel:17:39 @ And David girded his sword over his armor, and he tried in vain to go, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these; for I am not used to them." And David put them off.

rsv@1Samuel:17:40 @ Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in his shepherd's bag or wallet; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.

rsv@1Samuel:17:44 @ The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field."

rsv@1Samuel:17:45 @ Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

rsv@1Samuel:17:46 @ This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

rsv@1Samuel:17:47 @ and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and he will give you into our hand."

rsv@1Samuel:17:51 @ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

rsv@1Samuel:18:5 @ And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him; so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

rsv@1Samuel:18:6 @ As they were coming home, when David returned from slaying the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with timbrels, with songs of joy, and with instruments of music.

rsv@1Samuel:18:13 @ So Saul removed him from his presence, and made him a commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

rsv@1Samuel:18:14 @ And David had success in all his undertakings; for the LORD was with him.

rsv@1Samuel:18:15 @ And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.

rsv@1Samuel:18:17 @ Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him."

rsv@1Samuel:18:21 @ Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall now be my son-in-law."

rsv@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and of no repute?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:25 @ Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, `The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:18:26 @ And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired,

rsv@1Samuel:18:27 @ David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.

rsv@1Samuel:18:30 @ Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

rsv@1Samuel:19:3 @ and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; and if I learn anything I will tell you."

rsv@1Samuel:19:6 @ And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death."

rsv@1Samuel:19:7 @ And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.

rsv@1Samuel:19:8 @ And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them, so that they fled before him.

rsv@1Samuel:19:10 @ And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped.

rsv@1Samuel:19:11 @ That night Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."

rsv@1Samuel:19:12 @ So Michal let David down through the window; and he fled away and escaped.

rsv@1Samuel:19:13 @ Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

rsv@1Samuel:19:14 @ And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

rsv@1Samuel:19:15 @ Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."

rsv@1Samuel:19:16 @ And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

rsv@1Samuel:19:17 @ Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, `Let me go; why should I kill you?'"

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:19:20 @ Then Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

rsv@1Samuel:19:21 @ When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

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:19:24 @ And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and lay naked all that day and all that night. Hence it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said to him, "Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me; and why should my father hide this from me? It is not so."

rsv@1Samuel:20:3 @ But David replied, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he thinks, `Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

rsv@1Samuel:20:6 @ If your father misses me at all, then say, `David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city; for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'

rsv@1Samuel:20:12 @ And Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?

rsv@1Samuel:20:15 @ and do not cut off your loyalty from my house for ever. When the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth,

rsv@1Samuel:20:16 @ let not the name of Jonathan be cut off from the house of David. And may the LORD take vengeance on David's enemies."

rsv@1Samuel:20:19 @ And on the third day you will be greatly missed; then go to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside yonder stone heap.

rsv@1Samuel:20:21 @ And behold, I will send the lad, saying, `Go, find the arrows.' If I say to the lad, `Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,' then you are to come, for, as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

rsv@1Samuel:20:25 @ The king sat upon his seat, as at other times, upon the seat by the wall; Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.

rsv@1Samuel:20:27 @ But on the second day, the morrow after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:28 @ Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem;

rsv@1Samuel:20:29 @ he said, `Let me go; for our family holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table."

rsv@1Samuel:20:30 @ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

rsv@1Samuel:20:31 @ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die."

rsv@1Samuel:20:41 @ And as soon as the lad had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times; and they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David recovered himself.

rsv@1Samuel:20:42 @ Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, `The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants, for ever.'" And he rose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

rsv@1Samuel:21:1 @ 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:21:3 @ Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."

rsv@1Samuel:21:4 @ And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread at hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women."

rsv@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, "Of a truth women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy, even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:6 @ So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

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:21:11 @ And the servants of A'chish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, `Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:12 @ And David took these words to heart, and was much afraid of A'chish the king of Gath.

rsv@1Samuel:21:15 @ Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"

rsv@1Samuel:22:1 @ David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

rsv@1Samuel:22:2 @ And every one who was in distress, and every one who was in debt, and every one who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.

rsv@1Samuel:22:5 @ Then the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed, and went into the forest of Hereth.

rsv@1Samuel:22:7 @ And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjaminites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,

rsv@1Samuel:22:8 @ that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, none of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day."

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:22:13 @ And Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

rsv@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:22:18 @ Then the king said to Do'eg, "You turn and fall upon the priests." And Do'eg the E'domite turned and fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

rsv@1Samuel:22:19 @ And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both men and women, children and sucklings, oxen, asses and sheep, he put to the sword.

rsv@1Samuel:22:20 @ But one of the sons of Ahim'elech the son of Ahi'tub, named Abi'athar, escaped and fled after David.

rsv@1Samuel:22:21 @ And Abi'athar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

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:23:7 @ 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:23:9 @ David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; and he said to Abi'athar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."

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:23:13 @ 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:23:14 @ And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

rsv@1Samuel:23:15 @ And David was afraid because Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.

rsv@1Samuel:23:16 @ And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.

rsv@1Samuel:23:18 @ And the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.

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:23:20 @ Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand."

rsv@1Samuel:23:21 @ And Saul said, "May you be blessed by the LORD; for you have had compassion on me.

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:23:25 @ And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told; therefore he went down to the rock which is in the wilderness of Ma'on. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Ma'on.

rsv@1Samuel:23:27 @ when a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Make haste and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land."

rsv@1Samuel:23:28 @ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.

rsv@1Samuel:24:1 @ When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-ge'di."

rsv@1Samuel:24:7 @ So David persuaded his men with these words, and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave, and went upon his way.

rsv@1Samuel:24:10 @ Lo, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill you, but I spared you. I said, `I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.'

rsv@1Samuel:24:13 @ As the proverb of the ancients says, `Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness'; but my hand shall not be against you.

rsv@1Samuel:24:16 @ When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

rsv@1Samuel:24:20 @ And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.

rsv@1Samuel:24:21 @ Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house."

rsv@1Samuel:25:1 @ 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:25:2 @ And there was a man in Ma'on, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

rsv@1Samuel:25:4 @ David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

rsv@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a feast day. Pray, give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"

rsv@1Samuel:25:10 @ And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are breaking away from their masters.

rsv@1Samuel:25:14 @ But one of the young men told Ab'igail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

rsv@1Samuel:25:18 @ Then Ab'igail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

rsv@1Samuel:25:21 @ Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

rsv@1Samuel:25:26 @ Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt, and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.

rsv@1Samuel:25:27 @ And now let this present which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

rsv@1Samuel:25:28 @ Pray forgive the trespass of your handmaid; for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD; and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.

rsv@1Samuel:25:29 @ If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

rsv@1Samuel:25:32 @ And David said to Ab'igail, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

rsv@1Samuel:25:33 @ Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand!

rsv@1Samuel:25:34 @ For as surely as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had made haste and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."

rsv@1Samuel:25:37 @ And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

rsv@1Samuel:25:39 @ When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; the LORD has returned the evil-doing of Nabal upon his own head." Then David sent and wooed Ab'igail, to make her his wife.

rsv@1Samuel:25:42 @ And Ab'igail made haste and rose and mounted on an ass, and her five maidens attended her; she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

rsv@1Samuel:25:43 @ 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:26:2 @ So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, with three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

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:26:4 @ David sent out spies, and learned of a certainty that Saul had come.

rsv@1Samuel:26:9 @ But David said to Abi'shai, "Do not destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?"

rsv@1Samuel:26:10 @ And David said, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

rsv@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

rsv@1Samuel:26:16 @ This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

rsv@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?

rsv@1Samuel:26:20 @ Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to seek my life, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains."

rsv@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then Saul said, "I have done wrong; return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."

rsv@1Samuel:26:23 @ The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed.

rsv@1Samuel:26:25 @ Then Saul said to David, "Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

rsv@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand."

rsv@1Samuel:27:3 @ 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:27:5 @ Then David said to A'chish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there; for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"

rsv@1Samuel:27:7 @ And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

rsv@1Samuel:27:8 @ Now David and his men went up, and made raids upon the Gesh'urites, the Gir'zites, and the Amal'ekites; for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:27:9 @ And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to A'chish.

rsv@1Samuel:27:10 @ When A'chish asked, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or "Against the Negeb of the Jerah'meelites," or, "Against the Negeb of the Ken'ites."

rsv@1Samuel:27:11 @ And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, thinking, "Lest they should tell about us, and say, `So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:28:1 @ In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And A'chish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army."

rsv@1Samuel:28:4 @ The Philistines assembled, and came and encamped at Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Samuel:28:5 @ When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

rsv@1Samuel:28:10 @ But Saul swore to her by the LORD, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing."

rsv@1Samuel:28:15 @ Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress; for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams; therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."

rsv@1Samuel:28:19 @ Moreover the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."

rsv@1Samuel:29:1 @ Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek; and the Israelites were encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.

rsv@1Samuel:29:2 @ As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with A'chish,

rsv@1Samuel:29:3 @ the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And A'chish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is not this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day."

rsv@1Samuel:29:4 @ But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him; and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him; he shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?

rsv@1Samuel:29:5 @ Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, `Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

rsv@1Samuel:29:6 @ Then A'chish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign; for I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless the lords do not approve of you.

rsv@1Samuel:29:7 @ So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines."

rsv@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said to A'chish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

rsv@1Samuel:29:9 @ And A'chish made answer to David, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless the commanders of the Philistines have said, `He shall not go up with us to the battle.'

rsv@1Samuel:29:11 @ So David set out with his men early in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

rsv@1Samuel:30:1 @ Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amal'ekites had made a raid upon the Negeb and upon Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

rsv@1Samuel:30:3 @ And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

rsv@1Samuel:30:4 @ Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept, until they had no more strength to weep.

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:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

rsv@1Samuel:30:7 @ 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:30:8 @ And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue."

rsv@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those stayed who were left behind.

rsv@1Samuel:30:10 @ But David went on with the pursuit, he and four hundred men; two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.

rsv@1Samuel:30:14 @ 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:30:17 @ And David smote them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.

rsv@1Samuel:30:18 @ David recovered all that the Amal'ekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

rsv@1Samuel:30:21 @ Then David came to the two hundred men, who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him; and when David drew near to the people he saluted them.

rsv@1Samuel:30:23 @ But David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us; he has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.

rsv@1Samuel:30:24 @ Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike."

rsv@1Samuel:30:26 @ 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:30:28 @ in Aro'er, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemo'a,

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

rsv@1Samuel:30:31 @ in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.

rsv@1Samuel:31:1 @ Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Samuel:31:2 @ And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abin'adab and Mal'chishu'a, the sons of Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:31:3 @ The battle pressed hard upon Saul, and the archers found him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.

rsv@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make sport of me." But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it.

rsv@1Samuel:31:7 @ And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

rsv@1Samuel:31:8 @ On the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Samuel:31:9 @ And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.

rsv@1Samuel:31:11 @ But when the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

rsv@1Samuel:31:12 @ all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and burnt them there.

rsv@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

rsv@2Samuel:1:1 @ After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amal'ekites, David remained two days in Ziklag;

rsv@2Samuel:1:2 @ and on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.

rsv@2Samuel:1:3 @ David said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."

rsv@2Samuel:1:9 @ And he said to me, `Stand beside me and slay me; for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.'

rsv@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen; and I took the crown which was on his head and the armlet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord."

rsv@2Samuel:1:11 @ Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him;

rsv@2Samuel:1:14 @ David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said to him, "Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, `I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'"

rsv@2Samuel:1:19 @ "Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

rsv@2Samuel:1:20 @ Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ash'kelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

rsv@2Samuel:1:23 @ "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

rsv@2Samuel:1:25 @ "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.

rsv@2Samuel:1:26 @ I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

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:2:5 @ David sent messengers to the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead, and said to them, "May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord, and buried him!

rsv@2Samuel:2:6 @ Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you! And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

rsv@2Samuel:2:9 @ and he made him king over Gilead and the Ash'urites and Jezreel and E'phraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:24 @ 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:2:25 @ And the Benjaminites gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one band, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

rsv@2Samuel:2:27 @ And Jo'ab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would have given up the pursuit of their brethren in the morning."

rsv@2Samuel:2:30 @ Jo'ab returned from the pursuit of Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David's servants nineteen men besides As'ahel.

rsv@2Samuel:3:3 @ and his second, Chil'e-ab, of Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Ab'salom the son of Ma'acah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

rsv@2Samuel:3:5 @ and the sixth, Ith're-am, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:3:12 @ And Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you."

rsv@2Samuel:3:13 @ And he said, "Good; I will make a covenant with you; but one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."

rsv@2Samuel:3:14 @ Then David sent messengers to Ish-bo'sheth Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed at the price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

rsv@2Samuel:3:18 @ Now then bring it about; for the LORD has promised David, saying, `By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.'"

rsv@2Samuel:3:21 @ And Abner said to David, "I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires." So David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

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:3:28 @ Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are for ever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

rsv@2Samuel:3:31 @ Then David said to Jo'ab and to all the people who were with him, "Rend your clothes, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.

rsv@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

rsv@2Samuel:3:35 @ Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"

rsv@2Samuel:3:39 @ And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeru'iah are too hard for me. The LORD requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

rsv@2Samuel:4:3 @ the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, and have been sojourners there to this day).

rsv@2Samuel:4:5 @ 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:4:9 @ But David answered Rechab and Ba'anah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,

rsv@2Samuel:4:11 @ How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?"

rsv@2Samuel:4:12 @ And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bo'sheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:5:1 @ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

rsv@2Samuel:5:2 @ In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD said to you, `You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"

rsv@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jeb'usites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here."

rsv@2Samuel:5:7 @ Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

rsv@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, "Whoever would smite the Jeb'usites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."

rsv@2Samuel:5:11 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

rsv@2Samuel:5:12 @ And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:5:13 @ And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

rsv@2Samuel:5:14 @ And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Sham'mu-a, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

rsv@2Samuel:5:17 @ When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; but David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

rsv@2Samuel:5:18 @ Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand."

rsv@2Samuel:5:20 @ And David came to Ba'al-pera'zim, and David defeated them there; and he said, "The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Ba'al-pera'zim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:21 @ And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

rsv@2Samuel:5:22 @ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread out in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:23 @ And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

rsv@2Samuel:5:24 @ And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then bestir yourself; for then the LORD has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."

rsv@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.

rsv@2Samuel:6:5 @ And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

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:6:11 @ And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed O'bed-e'dom and all his household.

rsv@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told King David, "The LORD has blessed the household of O'bed-e'dom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of O'bed-e'dom to the city of David with rejoicing;

rsv@2Samuel:6:13 @ and when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

rsv@2Samuel:6:16 @ As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

rsv@2Samuel:6:18 @ And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts,

rsv@2Samuel:6:20 @ And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

rsv@2Samuel:6:22 @ I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor."

rsv@2Samuel:7:1 @ Now when the king dwelt in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies round about,

rsv@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'

rsv@2Samuel:7:9 @ and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

rsv@2Samuel:7:11 @ from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.

rsv@2Samuel:7:12 @ When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

rsv@2Samuel:7:13 @ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

rsv@2Samuel:7:14 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;

rsv@2Samuel:7:16 @ And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.'"

rsv@2Samuel:7:17 @ In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

rsv@2Samuel:7:19 @ And yet this was a small thing in thy eyes, O Lord GOD; thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O Lord GOD!

rsv@2Samuel:7:20 @ And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD!

rsv@2Samuel:7:21 @ Because of thy promise, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.

rsv@2Samuel:7:22 @ Therefore thou art great, O LORD God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

rsv@2Samuel:7:24 @ And thou didst establish for thyself thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.

rsv@2Samuel:7:26 @ and thy name will be magnified for ever, saying, `The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.

rsv@2Samuel:7:29 @ now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken, and with thy blessing shall the house of thy servant be blessed for ever."

rsv@2Samuel:8:1 @ After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Meth'eg-am'mah out of the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@2Samuel:8:2 @ And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

rsv@2Samuel:8:3 @ David also defeated Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@2Samuel:8:4 @ And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots.

rsv@2Samuel:8:8 @ And from Betah and from Bero'thai, cities of Hadade'zer, King David took very much bronze.

rsv@2Samuel:8:10 @ To'i sent his son Joram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'i. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze;

rsv@2Samuel:8:11 @ these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,

rsv@2Samuel:8:12 @ from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Am'alek, and from the spoil of Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

rsv@2Samuel:8:13 @ And David won a name for himself. When he returned, he slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@2Samuel:8:14 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:17 @ 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:9:1 @ And David said, "Is there still any one left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

rsv@2Samuel:9:3 @ And the king said, "Is there not still some one of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet."

rsv@2Samuel:9:7 @ And David said to him, "Do not fear; for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat at my table always."

rsv@2Samuel:10:1 @ After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Samuel:10:2 @ And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:10:3 @ But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"

rsv@2Samuel:10:6 @ When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-re'hob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Ma'acah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:10:8 @ And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Ma'acah, were by themselves in the open country.

rsv@2Samuel:10:10 @ the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:10:11 @ And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

rsv@2Samuel:10:12 @ Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him."

rsv@2Samuel:10:14 @ And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abi'shai, and entered the city. Then Jo'ab returned from fighting against the Ammonites, and came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:10:15 @ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.

rsv@2Samuel:10:16 @ And Hadade'zer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphra'tes; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadade'zer at their head.

rsv@2Samuel:10:17 @ And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians arrayed themselves against David, and fought with him.

rsv@2Samuel:10:19 @ And when all the kings who were servants of Hadade'zer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel, and became subject to them. So the Syrians feared to help the Ammonites any more.

rsv@2Samuel:11:1 @ In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Jo'ab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:11:4 @ So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

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:11:11 @ 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:11:13 @ And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:15 @ 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:11:19 @ and he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,

rsv@2Samuel:11:20 @ then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, `Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

rsv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who killed Abim'elech the son of Jerub'besheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, `Your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also.'"

rsv@2Samuel:11:22 @ So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Jo'ab had sent him to tell.

rsv@2Samuel:11:23 @ The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.

rsv@2Samuel:11:25 @ David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Jo'ab, `Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; strengthen your attack upon the city, and overthrow it.' And encourage him."

rsv@2Samuel:12:5 @ Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;

rsv@2Samuel:12:6 @ and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."

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:12:11 @ Thus says the LORD, `Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

rsv@2Samuel:12:14 @ Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child that is born to you shall die."

rsv@2Samuel:12:16 @ David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

rsv@2Samuel:12:17 @ And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground; but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

rsv@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD, and worshiped; he then went to his own house; and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

rsv@2Samuel:12:25 @ 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:12:28 @ Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name."

rsv@2Samuel:12:31 @ And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:13:5 @ Jon'adab said to him, "Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him, `Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"

rsv@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Pray let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."

rsv@2Samuel:13:8 @ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

rsv@2Samuel:13:10 @ Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

rsv@2Samuel:13:17 @ He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."

rsv@2Samuel:13:18 @ Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king clad of old. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:19 @ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent the long robe which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went.

rsv@2Samuel:13:20 @ And her brother Ab'salom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar dwelt, a desolate woman, in her brother Ab'salom's house.

rsv@2Samuel:13:21 @ When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.

rsv@2Samuel:13:25 @ But the king said to Ab'salom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.

rsv@2Samuel:13:27 @ But Ab'salom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

rsv@2Samuel:13:34 @ But Ab'salom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the Horona'im road by the side of the mountain.

rsv@2Samuel:13:37 @ But Ab'salom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammi'hud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.

rsv@2Samuel:13:38 @ So Ab'salom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

rsv@2Samuel:14:7 @ And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, `Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew'; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth."

rsv@2Samuel:14:9 @ And the woman of Teko'a said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."

rsv@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then she said, "Pray let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."

rsv@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.

rsv@2Samuel:14:14 @ We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

rsv@2Samuel:14:15 @ Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid; and your handmaid thought, `I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

rsv@2Samuel:14:16 @ For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.'

rsv@2Samuel:14:17 @ And your handmaid thought, `The word of my lord the king will set me at rest'; for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!"

rsv@2Samuel:14:19 @ The king said, "Is the hand of Jo'ab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Jo'ab who bade me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

rsv@2Samuel:14:22 @ And Jo'ab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king; and Jo'ab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."

rsv@2Samuel:14:23 @ So Jo'ab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Ab'salom to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:14:24 @ And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence." So Ab'salom dwelt apart in his own house, and did not come into the king's presence.

rsv@2Samuel:14:28 @ So Ab'salom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.

rsv@2Samuel:14:32 @ Ab'salom answered Jo'ab, "Behold, I sent word to you, `Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king; and if there is guilt in me, let him kill me.'"

rsv@2Samuel:15:1 @ After this Ab'salom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Ab'salom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Ab'salom would call to him, and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"

rsv@2Samuel:15:8 @ For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, `If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.'"

rsv@2Samuel:15:10 @ But Ab'salom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, `Ab'salom is king at Hebron!'"

rsv@2Samuel:15:11 @ With Ab'salom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their simplicity, and knew nothing.

rsv@2Samuel:15:12 @ And while Ab'salom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahith'ophel the Gi'lonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Ab'salom kept increasing.

rsv@2Samuel:15:13 @ And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Ab'salom."

rsv@2Samuel:15:14 @ Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; or else there will be no escape for us from Ab'salom; go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."

rsv@2Samuel:15:15 @ And the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides."

rsv@2Samuel:15:16 @ So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

rsv@2Samuel:15:18 @ And all his servants passed by him; and all the Cher'ethites, and all the Pel'ethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.

rsv@2Samuel:15:20 @ You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:21 @ But It'tai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be."

rsv@2Samuel:15:22 @ And David said to It'tai, "Go then, pass on." So It'tai the Gittite passed on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:23 @ And all the country wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.

rsv@2Samuel:15:24 @ And Abi'athar came up, and lo, Zadok came also, with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God, until the people had all passed out of the city.

rsv@2Samuel:15:25 @ Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation;

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:15:28 @ See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

rsv@2Samuel:15:30 @ But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered; and all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.

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:15:35 @ Are not Zadok and Abi'athar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests.

rsv@2Samuel:16:1 @ When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephib'osheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

rsv@2Samuel:16:2 @ And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The asses are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink."

rsv@2Samuel:16:6 @ And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of King David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

rsv@2Samuel:16:7 @ And Shim'e-i said as he cursed, "Begone, begone, you man of blood, you worthless fellow!

rsv@2Samuel:16:13 @ So David and his men went on the road, while Shim'e-i went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him and flung dust.

rsv@2Samuel:16:14 @ And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan; and there he refreshed himself.

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:16:22 @ So they pitched a tent for Ab'salom upon the roof; and Ab'salom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:16:23 @ Now in those days the counsel which Ahith'ophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahith'ophel esteemed, both by David and by Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:17:3 @ and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace."

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:17:8 @ Hushai said moreover, "You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.

rsv@2Samuel:17:13 @ If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there."

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:17:16 @ Now therefore send quickly and tell David, `Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"

rsv@2Samuel:17:27 @ 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:17:28 @ brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans and lentils,

rsv@2Samuel:17:29 @ honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."

rsv@2Samuel:18:4 @ The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

rsv@2Samuel:18:6 @ So the army went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was fought in the forest of E'phraim.

rsv@2Samuel:18:8 @ The battle spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.

rsv@2Samuel:18:9 @ And Ab'salom chanced to meet the servants of David. Ab'salom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

rsv@2Samuel:18:11 @ Jo'ab said to the man who told him, "What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a girdle."

rsv@2Samuel:18:12 @ But the man said to Jo'ab, "Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abi'shai and It'tai, `For my sake protect the young man Ab'salom.'

rsv@2Samuel:18:16 @ Then Jo'ab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel; for Jo'ab restrained them.

rsv@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Ab'salom, and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his own home.

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:18:24 @ Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

rsv@2Samuel:18:27 @ 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:18:32 @ The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Ab'salom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be like that young man."

rsv@2Samuel:19:5 @ Then Jo'ab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

rsv@2Samuel:19:9 @ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and saved us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Ab'salom.

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:19:12 @ You are my kinsmen, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

rsv@2Samuel:19:13 @ And say to Ama'sa, `Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army henceforth in place of Jo'ab.'"

rsv@2Samuel:19:24 @ And Mephib'osheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.

rsv@2Samuel:19:31 @ Now Barzil'lai the Gileadite had come down from Ro'gelim; and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.

rsv@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you; and all that you desire of me I will do for you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:39 @ Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzil'lai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.

rsv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:20:1 @ Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!"

rsv@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

rsv@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abi'shai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Ab'salom; take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and cause us trouble."

rsv@2Samuel:20:7 @ And there went out after Abi'shai, Jo'ab and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites, and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:14 @ 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:20:19 @ I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?"

rsv@2Samuel:20:20 @ Jo'ab answered, "Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!

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:20:25 @ and Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abi'athar were priests;

rsv@2Samuel:20:26 @ and Ira the Ja'irite was also David's priest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:1 @ Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gib'eonites to death."

rsv@2Samuel:21:2 @ So the king called the Gib'eonites. Now the Gib'eonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

rsv@2Samuel:21:3 @ And David said to the Gib'eonites, "What shall I do for you? And how shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the LORD?"

rsv@2Samuel:21:4 @ The Gib'eonites said to him, "It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." And he said, "What do you say that I shall do for you?"

rsv@2Samuel:21:5 @ They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,

rsv@2Samuel:21:9 @ and he gave them into the hands of the Gib'eonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:10 @ Then Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

rsv@2Samuel:21:12 @ David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilbo'a;

rsv@2Samuel:21:13 @ and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

rsv@2Samuel:21:14 @ And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded supplications for the land.

rsv@2Samuel:21:15 @ The Philistines had war again with Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines; and David grew weary.

rsv@2Samuel:21:16 @ And Ish'bi-be'nob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was girded with a new sword, thought to kill David.

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:21:18 @ After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sib'becai the Hu'shathite slew Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.

rsv@2Samuel:21:19 @ And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elha'nan the son of Ja'areor'egim, the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

rsv@2Samuel:21:20 @ And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was descended from the giants.

rsv@2Samuel:21:22 @ These four were descended from the giants in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

rsv@2Samuel:22:1 @ And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.

rsv@2Samuel:22:2 @ He said, "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,

rsv@2Samuel:22:3 @ my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; thou savest me from violence.

rsv@2Samuel:22:4 @ I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

rsv@2Samuel:22:5 @ "For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;

rsv@2Samuel:22:6 @ the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:7 @ "In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.

rsv@2Samuel:22:10 @ He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

rsv@2Samuel:22:12 @ He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

rsv@2Samuel:22:13 @ Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.

rsv@2Samuel:22:21 @ "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

rsv@2Samuel:22:24 @ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

rsv@2Samuel:22:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

rsv@2Samuel:22:26 @ "With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;

rsv@2Samuel:22:28 @ Thou dost deliver a humble people, but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.

rsv@2Samuel:22:29 @ Yea, thou art my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.

rsv@2Samuel:22:31 @ This God--his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

rsv@2Samuel:22:38 @ I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.

rsv@2Samuel:22:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:44 @ "Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst keep me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:46 @ Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

rsv@2Samuel:22:47 @ "The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

rsv@2Samuel:22:48 @ the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,

rsv@2Samuel:22:49 @ who brought me out from my enemies; thou didst exalt me above my adversaries, thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

rsv@2Samuel:22:50 @ "For this I will extol thee, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name.

rsv@2Samuel:22:51 @ Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David, and his descendants for ever."

rsv@2Samuel:23:1 @ Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

rsv@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

rsv@2Samuel:23:4 @ he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth upon a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

rsv@2Samuel:23:5 @ Yea, does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

rsv@2Samuel:23:6 @ But godless men are all like thorns that are thrown away; for they cannot be taken with the hand;

rsv@2Samuel:23:7 @ but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire."

rsv@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshe'beth a Tah-che'monite; he was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time.

rsv@2Samuel:23:9 @ 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:23:10 @ He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand cleaved to the sword; and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.

rsv@2Samuel:23:11 @ And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Har'arite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the men fled from the Philistines.

rsv@2Samuel:23:12 @ But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory.

rsv@2Samuel:23:13 @ And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@2Samuel:23:14 @ David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

rsv@2Samuel:23:16 @ Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it; he poured it out to the LORD,

rsv@2Samuel:23:17 @ and said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

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:23:22 @ These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

rsv@2Samuel:23:26 @ Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Teko'a,

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:24:2 @ So the king said to Jo'ab and the commanders of the army, who were with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people."

rsv@2Samuel:24:3 @ But Jo'ab said to the king, "May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

rsv@2Samuel:24:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Jo'ab and the commanders of the army. So Jo'ab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:24:6 @ Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,

rsv@2Samuel:24:7 @ and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beer-sheba.

rsv@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

rsv@2Samuel:24:14 @ Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man."

rsv@2Samuel:24:15 @ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Arau'nah the Jeb'usite.

rsv@2Samuel:24:17 @ Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was smiting the people, and said, "Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my father's house."

rsv@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, rear an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Arau'nah the Jeb'usite."

rsv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Arau'nah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor of you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people."

rsv@2Samuel:24:22 @ 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:1:1 @ Now King David was old and advanced in years; and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.

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:1:11 @ 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:1:16 @ Bathshe'ba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, "What do you desire?"

rsv@1Kings:1:19 @ He has sacrificed oxen, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abi'athar the priest, and Jo'ab the commander of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not invited.

rsv@1Kings:1:20 @ And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

rsv@1Kings:1:25 @ 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:1:28 @ Then King David answered, "Call Bathshe'ba to me." So she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

rsv@1Kings:1:29 @ And the king swore, saying, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity,

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:1:34 @ and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, `Long live King Solomon!'

rsv@1Kings:1:38 @ So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites, went down and caused Solomon to ride on King David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

rsv@1Kings:1:39 @ There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"

rsv@1Kings:1:40 @ And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

rsv@1Kings:1:41 @ 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:1:44 @ and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;

rsv@1Kings:1:45 @ and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon; and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.

rsv@1Kings:1:48 @ And the king also said, `Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.'"

rsv@1Kings:1:49 @ Then all the guests of Adoni'jah trembled, and rose, and each went his own way.

rsv@1Kings:1:52 @ And Solomon said, "If he prove to be a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die."

rsv@1Kings:2:3 @ and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;

rsv@1Kings:2:4 @ that the LORD may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, `If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.'

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:2:9 @ Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol."

rsv@1Kings:2:12 @ So Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was firmly established.

rsv@1Kings:2:16 @ And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Say on."

rsv@1Kings:2:20 @ Then she said, "I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Make your request, my mother; for I will not refuse you."

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:2:26 @ And to Abi'athar the priest the king said, "Go to An'athoth, to your estate; for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all the affliction of my father."

rsv@1Kings:2:27 @ So Solomon expelled Abi'athar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

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:2:33 @ So shall their blood come back upon the head of Jo'ab and upon the head of his descendants for ever; but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace from the LORD for evermore."

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:2:40 @ Shim'e-i arose and saddled an ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; Shim'e-i went and brought his slaves from Gath.

rsv@1Kings:2:45 @ But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever."

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:3:2 @ The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:3:3 @ Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.

rsv@1Kings:3:6 @ And Solomon said, "Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to thy servant David my father, because he walked before thee in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward thee; and thou hast kept for him this great and steadfast love, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne this day.

rsv@1Kings:3:11 @ And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,

rsv@1Kings:3:13 @ I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.

rsv@1Kings:3:14 @ And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."

rsv@1Kings:3:20 @ And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

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:4:8 @ These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of E'phraim;

rsv@1Kings:4:9 @ Ben-deker, in Makaz, Sha-al'bim, Beth-she'mesh, and E'lonbeth-ha'nan;

rsv@1Kings:4:10 @ Ben-hesed, in Arub'both (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);

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:4:13 @ Ben-geber, in Ra'moth-gil'ead (he had the villages of Ja'ir the son of Manas'seh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

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:4:21 @ Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphra'tes to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

rsv@1Kings:4:23 @ ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

rsv@1Kings:4:24 @ For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphra'tes from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphra'tes; and he had peace on all sides round about him.

rsv@1Kings:4:26 @ Solomon also had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

rsv@1Kings:4:28 @ Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his charge.

rsv@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and largeness of mind like the sand on the seashore,

rsv@1Kings:4:33 @ He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

rsv@1Kings:4:34 @ And men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

rsv@1Kings:5:3 @ "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

rsv@1Kings:5:4 @ But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.

rsv@1Kings:5:6 @ Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me; and my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sido'nians."

rsv@1Kings:5:7 @ When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people."

rsv@1Kings:5:8 @ And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me; I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.

rsv@1Kings:5:9 @ My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon; and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it; and you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household."

rsv@1Kings:5:10 @ So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,

rsv@1Kings:5:16 @ besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

rsv@1Kings:5:17 @ At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

rsv@1Kings:6:3 @ The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:4 @ And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.

rsv@1Kings:6:6 @ The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:8 @ The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house; and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

rsv@1Kings:6:12 @ "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

rsv@1Kings:6:15 @ He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

rsv@1Kings:6:29 @ He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.

rsv@1Kings:6:32 @ He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; he overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim and upon the palm trees.

rsv@1Kings:6:34 @ and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

rsv@1Kings:6:35 @ On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work.

rsv@1Kings:6:36 @ He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and one course of cedar beams.

rsv@1Kings:7:2 @ He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, and it was built upon three rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

rsv@1Kings:7:4 @ There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.

rsv@1Kings:7:5 @ All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

rsv@1Kings:7:9 @ All these were made of costly stones, hewn according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the court of the house of the LORD to the great court.

rsv@1Kings:7:10 @ The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.

rsv@1Kings:7:11 @ And above were costly stones, hewn according to measurement, and cedar.

rsv@1Kings:7:12 @ The great court had three courses of hewn stone round about, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the vestibule of the house.

rsv@1Kings:7:15 @ He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference; it was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers; the second pillar was the same.

rsv@1Kings:7:18 @ Likewise he made pomegranates; in two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capital that was upon the top of the pillar; and he did the same with the other capital.

rsv@1Kings:7:19 @ Now the capitals that were upon the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.

rsv@1Kings:7:20 @ The capitals were upon the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the network; there were two hundred pomegranates, in two rows round about; and so with the other capital.

rsv@1Kings:7:21 @ He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin; and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Bo'az.

rsv@1Kings:7:25 @ It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

rsv@1Kings:7:26 @ Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.

rsv@1Kings:7:28 @ This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames

rsv@1Kings:7:29 @ and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Upon the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.

rsv@1Kings:7:30 @ Moreover each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and at the four corners were supports for a laver. The supports were cast, with wreaths at the side of each.

rsv@1Kings:7:31 @ Its opening was within a crown which projected upward one cubit; its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings; and its panels were square, not round.

rsv@1Kings:7:32 @ And the four wheels were underneath the panels; the axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

rsv@1Kings:7:33 @ The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs, were all cast.

rsv@1Kings:7:36 @ And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.

rsv@1Kings:7:42 @ and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;

rsv@1Kings:7:45 @ Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the LORD, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.

rsv@1Kings:7:47 @ And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not found out.

rsv@1Kings:7:48 @ So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,

rsv@1Kings:7:50 @ the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.

rsv@1Kings:7:51 @ Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:1 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

rsv@1Kings:8:3 @ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

rsv@1Kings:8:4 @ And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

rsv@1Kings:8:6 @ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

rsv@1Kings:8:7 @ For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

rsv@1Kings:8:8 @ And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and they are there to this day.

rsv@1Kings:8:9 @ There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

rsv@1Kings:8:10 @ And when the priests came out of the holy place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,

rsv@1Kings:8:11 @ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:12 @ Then Solomon said, "The LORD has set the sun in the heavens, but has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

rsv@1Kings:8:14 @ Then the king faced about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.

rsv@1Kings:8:15 @ And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,

rsv@1Kings:8:16 @ `Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'

rsv@1Kings:8:19 @ nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'

rsv@1Kings:8:22 @ Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

rsv@1Kings:8:27 @ "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

rsv@1Kings:8:29 @ that thy eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which thou hast said, `My name shall be there,' that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.

rsv@1Kings:8:30 @ And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

rsv@1Kings:8:31 @ "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thine altar in this house,

rsv@1Kings:8:32 @ then hear thou in heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

rsv@1Kings:8:34 @ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.

rsv@1Kings:8:37 @ "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

rsv@1Kings:8:39 @ then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render to each whose heart thou knowest, according to all his ways (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men);

rsv@1Kings:8:40 @ that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.

rsv@1Kings:8:41 @ "Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for thy name's sake

rsv@1Kings:8:42 @ (for they shall hear of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and of thy outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,

rsv@1Kings:8:43 @ hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee; in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

rsv@1Kings:8:46 @ "If they sin against thee--for there is no man who does not sin--and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

rsv@1Kings:8:48 @ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

rsv@1Kings:8:50 @ and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions which they have committed against thee; and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

rsv@1Kings:8:52 @ Let thy eyes be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to thee.

rsv@1Kings:8:53 @ For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thy heritage, as thou didst declare through Moses, thy servant, when thou didst bring our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD."

rsv@1Kings:8:55 @ and he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

rsv@1Kings:8:56 @ "Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant.

rsv@1Kings:8:58 @ that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

rsv@1Kings:8:59 @ Let these words of mine, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires;

rsv@1Kings:8:60 @ that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.

rsv@1Kings:8:61 @ Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."

rsv@1Kings:8:64 @ The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

rsv@1Kings:8:66 @ On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.

rsv@1Kings:9:1 @ When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build,

rsv@1Kings:9:3 @ And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

rsv@1Kings:9:4 @ And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

rsv@1Kings:9:5 @ then I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever, as I promised David your father, saying, `There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.'

rsv@1Kings:9:6 @ But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

rsv@1Kings:9:7 @ then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

rsv@1Kings:9:10 @ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house,

rsv@1Kings:9:11 @ and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

rsv@1Kings:9:12 @ But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

rsv@1Kings:9:13 @ Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.

rsv@1Kings:9:16 @ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife;

rsv@1Kings:9:18 @ and Ba'alath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

rsv@1Kings:9:19 @ and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

rsv@1Kings:9:20 @ All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, who were not of the people of Israel--

rsv@1Kings:9:21 @ their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly--these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.

rsv@1Kings:9:22 @ But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

rsv@1Kings:9:23 @ These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: five hundred and fifty, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

rsv@1Kings:9:25 @ Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the LORD, burning incense before the LORD. So he finished the house.

rsv@1Kings:10:1 @ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.

rsv@1Kings:10:2 @ She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

rsv@1Kings:10:3 @ And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.

rsv@1Kings:10:7 @ but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report which I heard.

rsv@1Kings:10:8 @ Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

rsv@1Kings:10:9 @ Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel for ever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."

rsv@1Kings:10:10 @ Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones; never again came such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:10:11 @ Moreover the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.

rsv@1Kings:10:12 @ And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers; no such almug wood has come or been seen, to this day.

rsv@1Kings:10:13 @ And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.

rsv@1Kings:10:15 @ besides that which came from the traders and from the traffic of the merchants, and from all the kings of Arabia and from the governors of the land.

rsv@1Kings:10:17 @ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

rsv@1Kings:10:18 @ The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

rsv@1Kings:10:19 @ The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf's head, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,

rsv@1Kings:10:21 @ All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:10:22 @ For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

rsv@1Kings:10:23 @ Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

rsv@1Kings:10:24 @ And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.

rsv@1Kings:10:25 @ Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

rsv@1Kings:10:26 @ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:10:28 @ And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Ku'e, and the king's traders received them from Ku'e at a price.

rsv@1Kings:10:29 @ A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

rsv@1Kings:11:2 @ from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love.

rsv@1Kings:11:3 @ He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

rsv@1Kings:11:4 @ For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

rsv@1Kings:11:5 @ For Solomon went after Ash'toreth the goddess of the Sido'nians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

rsv@1Kings:11:7 @ Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:11:8 @ And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

rsv@1Kings:11:11 @ Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.

rsv@1Kings:11:17 @ but Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain E'domites of his father's servants, Hadad being yet a little child.

rsv@1Kings:11:19 @ And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tah'penes the queen.

rsv@1Kings:11:20 @ And the sister of Tah'penes bore him Genu'bath his son, whom Tah'penes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genu'bath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.

rsv@1Kings:11:30 @ Then Ahi'jah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.

rsv@1Kings:11:31 @ And he said to Jerobo'am, "Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and will give you ten tribes

rsv@1Kings:11:32 @ (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),

rsv@1Kings:11:33 @ because he has forsaken me, and worshiped Ash'toreth the goddess of the Sido'nians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

rsv@1Kings:11:34 @ Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

rsv@1Kings:11:35 @ but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, ten tribes.

rsv@1Kings:11:37 @ And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.

rsv@1Kings:11:38 @ And if you will hearken to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

rsv@1Kings:11:39 @ And I will for this afflict the descendants of David, but not for ever.'"

rsv@1Kings:11:41 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

rsv@1Kings:12:16 @ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

rsv@1Kings:12:17 @ But Rehobo'am reigned over the people of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.

rsv@1Kings:12:18 @ Then King Rehobo'am sent Ador'am, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehobo'am made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:12:21 @ 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:12:23 @ "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:12:28 @ So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

rsv@1Kings:12:31 @ He also made houses on high places, and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.

rsv@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jerobo'am appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices upon the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

rsv@1Kings: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:13:3 @ And he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: `Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:5 @ The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." And the man of God entreated the LORD; and the king's hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.

rsv@1Kings:13:7 @ And the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."

rsv@1Kings:13:24 @ And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the ass stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.

rsv@1Kings:13:28 @ And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the ass and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the ass.

rsv@1Kings:13:31 @ And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

rsv@1Kings:13:32 @ For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Sama'ria, shall surely come to pass."

rsv@1Kings:13:33 @ After this thing Jerobo'am did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people; any who would, he consecrated to be priests of the high places.

rsv@1Kings:13:34 @ And this thing became sin to the house of Jerobo'am, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.

rsv@1Kings:14:3 @ Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what shall happen to the child."

rsv@1Kings:14:4 @ 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:14:8 @ and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you; and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,

rsv@1Kings:14:9 @ but you have done evil above all that were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

rsv@1Kings:14:11 @ Any one belonging to Jerobo'am who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'

rsv@1Kings:14:15 @ the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and scatter them beyond the Euphra'tes, because they have made their Ashe'rim, provoking the LORD to anger.

rsv@1Kings:14:17 @ Then Jerobo'am's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

rsv@1Kings:14:19 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:14:21 @ 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:14:23 @ For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;

rsv@1Kings:14:24 @ and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:14:26 @ he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made;

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:15:4 @ Nevertheless for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem;

rsv@1Kings:15:5 @ because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uri'ah the Hittite.

rsv@1Kings:15:7 @ The rest of the acts of Abi'jam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abi'jam and Jerobo'am.

rsv@1Kings:15:11 @ And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done.

rsv@1Kings:15:12 @ He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

rsv@1Kings:15:14 @ But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.

rsv@1Kings:15:15 @ And he brought into the house of the LORD the votive gifts of his father and his own votive gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.

rsv@1Kings:15:18 @ Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and gave them into the hands of his servants; and King Asa sent them to Ben-ha'dad the son of Tabrim'mon, the son of He'zi-on, king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

rsv@1Kings:15:19 @ "Let there be a league between me and you, as between my father and your father: behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold; go, break your league with Ba'asha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me."

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:15:22 @ 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:15:27 @ 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:15:29 @ And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jerobo'am; he left to the house of Jerobo'am not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servant Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite;

rsv@1Kings:15:31 @ Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:4 @ Any one belonging to Ba'asha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one of his who dies in the field the birds of the air shall eat."

rsv@1Kings:16:5 @ Now the rest of the acts of Ba'asha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:7 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hana'ni against Ba'asha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jerobo'am, and also because he destroyed it.

rsv@1Kings:16:12 @ Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Ba'asha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Ba'asha by Jehu the prophet,

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:16:20 @ Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy which he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:27 @ Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@1Kings:16:34 @ In his days Hi'el of Bethel built Jericho; he laid its foundation at the cost of Abi'ram his first-born, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

rsv@1Kings:17:1 @ Now Eli'jah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."

rsv@1Kings:17:10 @ So he arose and went to Zar'ephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

rsv@1Kings:17:12 @ And she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruse; and now, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

rsv@1Kings:17:17 @ After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

rsv@1Kings:17:21 @ Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this child's soul come into him again."

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: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:18:10 @ As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they would say, `He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.

rsv@1Kings:18:13 @ Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jez'ebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

rsv@1Kings:18:15 @ And Eli'jah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

rsv@1Kings:18:23 @ Let two bulls be given to us; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it; and I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood, and put no fire to it.

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:18:28 @ And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.

rsv@1Kings:18:31 @ 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:18:32 @ and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

rsv@1Kings:18:33 @ And he put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood."

rsv@1Kings:18:36 @ 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:18:38 @ Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

rsv@1Kings:18:39 @ And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, "The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God."

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:18:42 @ 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:18:43 @ And he said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." And he went up and looked, and said, "There is nothing." And he said, "Go again seven times."

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: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:19:4 @ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers."

rsv@1Kings:19:6 @ And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.

rsv@1Kings:19:11 @ And he said, "Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake;

rsv@1Kings:19:15 @ And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, you shall anoint Haz'ael to be king over Syria;

rsv@1Kings:19:17 @ And him who escapes from the sword of Haz'ael shall Jehu slay; and him who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Eli'sha slay.

rsv@1Kings:19:18 @ Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Ba'al, and every mouth that has not kissed him."

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:20:1 @ Ben-ha'dad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Sama'ria, and fought against it.

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:20:3 @ `Your silver and your gold are mine; your fairest wives and children also are mine.'"

rsv@1Kings:20:5 @ The messengers came again, and said, "Thus says Ben-ha'dad: `I sent to you, saying, "Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children";

rsv@1Kings:20:6 @ nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants, and lay hands on whatever pleases them, and take it away.'"

rsv@1Kings:20:7 @ Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble; for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him."

rsv@1Kings:20:9 @ So he said to the messengers of Ben-ha'dad, "Tell my lord the king, `All that you first demanded of your servant I will do; but this thing I cannot do.'" And the messengers departed and brought him word again.

rsv@1Kings:20:12 @ When Ben-ha'dad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, "Take your positions." And they took their positions against the city.

rsv@1Kings:20:19 @ So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts, and the army which followed them.

rsv@1Kings:20:20 @ And each killed his man; the Syrians fled and Israel pursued them, but Ben-ha'dad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

rsv@1Kings:20:21 @ And the king of Israel went out, and captured the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

rsv@1Kings:20:24 @ And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places;

rsv@1Kings:20:30 @ And the rest fled into the city of Aphek; and the wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand men that were left. Ben-ha'dad also fled, and entered an inner chamber in the city.

rsv@1Kings:20:31 @ And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life."

rsv@1Kings:20:32 @ So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-ha'dad says, `Pray, let me live.'" And he said, "Does he still live? He is my brother."

rsv@1Kings:20:33 @ Now the men were watching for an omen, and they quickly took it up from him and said, "Yes, your brother Ben-ha'dad." Then he said, "Go and bring him." Then Ben-ha'dad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

rsv@1Kings:20:34 @ And Ben-ha'dad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Sama'ria." And Ahab said, "I will let you go on these terms." So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

rsv@1Kings:20:38 @ So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.

rsv@1Kings:20:41 @ Then he made haste to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.

rsv@1Kings:20:42 @ And he said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"

rsv@1Kings:20:43 @ And the king of Israel went to his house resentful and sullen, and came to Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:21:1 @ Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:21:8 @ 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:21:11 @ And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jez'ebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters which she had sent to them,

rsv@1Kings:21:13 @ And the two base fellows came in and sat opposite him; and the base fellows brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

rsv@1Kings:21:15 @ As soon as Jez'ebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jez'ebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead."

rsv@1Kings:21:16 @ And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

rsv@1Kings:21:18 @ "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:21:19 @ And you shall say to him, `Thus says the LORD, "Have you killed, and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, `Thus says the LORD: "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'"

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:21:26 @ He did very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the people of Israel.)

rsv@1Kings:21:27 @ And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

rsv@1Kings:22:4 @ And he said to Jehosh'aphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" And Jehosh'aphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."

rsv@1Kings:22:8 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micai'ah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehosh'aphat said, "Let not the king say so."

rsv@1Kings:22:10 @ Now the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Sama'ria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

rsv@1Kings:22:11 @ 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:22:12 @ And all the prophets prophesied so, and said, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."

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:22:16 @ But the king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"

rsv@1Kings:22:17 @ And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said, `These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'"

rsv@1Kings:22:18 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

rsv@1Kings:22:19 @ 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:22:23 @ Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has spoken evil concerning you."

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:22:30 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

rsv@1Kings:22:38 @ And they washed the chariot by the pool of Sama'ria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the harlots washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD which he had spoken.

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:22:43 @ He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD; yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

rsv@1Kings:22:45 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehosh'aphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@1Kings:22:46 @ And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated from the land.

rsv@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:1:5 @ The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

rsv@2Kings:1:7 @ He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?"

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:1:14 @ Lo, fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight."

rsv@2Kings:1:16 @ and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron,--is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?--therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'"

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:2:2 @ 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:2:3 @ And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Eli'sha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he said, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."

rsv@2Kings:2:4 @ 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:2:5 @ The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Eli'sha, and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he answered, "Yes, I know it; hold your peace."

rsv@2Kings:2:6 @ 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:2:11 @ 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:2:12 @ And Eli'sha saw it and he cried, "My father, my father! the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces.

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:2:19 @ Now the men of the city said to Eli'sha, "Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful."

rsv@2Kings:2:21 @ Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it, and said, "Thus says the LORD, I have made this water wholesome; henceforth neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it."

rsv@2Kings:2:22 @ So the water has been wholesome to this day, according to the word which Eli'sha spoke.

rsv@2Kings:3:3 @ Nevertheless he clung to the sin of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.

rsv@2Kings:3:4 @ Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he had to deliver annually to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

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:3:8 @ Then he said, "By which way shall we march?" Jeho'ram answered, "By the way of the wilderness of Edom."

rsv@2Kings:3:10 @ Then the king of Israel said, "Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."

rsv@2Kings:3:13 @ And Eli'sha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."

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:3:18 @ This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD; he will also give the Moabites into your hand,

rsv@2Kings:3:19 @ and you shall conquer every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop up all springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

rsv@2Kings:3:21 @ When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out, and were drawn up at the frontier.

rsv@2Kings:3:22 @ And when they rose early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

rsv@2Kings:3:24 @ But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and attacked the Moabites, till they fled before them; and they went forward, slaughtering the Moabites as they went.

rsv@2Kings:3:25 @ And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone, until it was covered; they stopped every spring of water, and felled all the good trees; till only its stones were left in Kir-har'eseth, and the slingers surrounded and conquered it.

rsv@2Kings:3:27 @ Then he took his eldest son who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

rsv@2Kings:4:1 @ Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Eli'sha, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."

rsv@2Kings:4:3 @ Then he said, "Go outside, borrow vessels of all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.

rsv@2Kings:4:4 @ Then go in, and shut the door upon yourself and your sons, and pour into all these vessels; and when one is full, set it aside."

rsv@2Kings:4:5 @ So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her sons; and as she poured they brought the vessels to her.

rsv@2Kings:4:6 @ When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not another." Then the oil stopped flowing.

rsv@2Kings:4:7 @ She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."

rsv@2Kings:4:10 @ Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there."

rsv@2Kings:4:11 @ One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.

rsv@2Kings:4:16 @ And he said, "At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant."

rsv@2Kings:4:22 @ Then she called to her husband, and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the asses, that I may quickly go to the man of God, and come back again."

rsv@2Kings:4:24 @ Then she saddled the ass, and she said to her servant, "Urge the beast on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."

rsv@2Kings:4:27 @ And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Geha'zi came to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

rsv@2Kings:4:29 @ He said to Geha'zi, "Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any one, do not salute him; and if any one salutes you, do not reply; and lay my staff upon the face of the child."

rsv@2Kings:4:30 @ Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her.

rsv@2Kings:4:34 @ Then he went up and lay upon the child, putting his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.

rsv@2Kings:4:35 @ Then he got up again, and walked once to and fro in the house, and went up, and stretched himself upon him; the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

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:5:3 @ She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Sama'ria! He would cure him of his leprosy."

rsv@2Kings:5:5 @ And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten festal garments.

rsv@2Kings:5:6 @ And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Na'aman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy."

rsv@2Kings:5:7 @ And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."

rsv@2Kings:5:8 @ But when Eli'sha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you rent your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel."

rsv@2Kings:5:9 @ So Na'aman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the door of Eli'sha's house.

rsv@2Kings:5:10 @ And Eli'sha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean."

rsv@2Kings:5:14 @ So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

rsv@2Kings:5:15 @ Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him; and he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."

rsv@2Kings:5:16 @ But he said, "As the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

rsv@2Kings:5:17 @ Then Na'aman said, "If not, I pray you, let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for henceforth your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:5:18 @ In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter."

rsv@2Kings:5:20 @ Geha'zi, the servant of Eli'sha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Na'aman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and get something from him."

rsv@2Kings:5:22 @ And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, `There have just now come to me from the hill country of E'phraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; pray, give them a talent of silver and two festal garments.'"

rsv@2Kings:5:23 @ And Na'aman said, "Be pleased to accept two talents." And he urged him, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two festal garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they carried them before Geha'zi.

rsv@2Kings:5:27 @ Therefore the leprosy of Na'aman shall cleave to you, and to your descendants for ever." So he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.

rsv@2Kings:6:4 @ So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

rsv@2Kings:6:14 @ So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.

rsv@2Kings:6:15 @ When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"

rsv@2Kings:6:17 @ Then Eli'sha prayed, and said, "O LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Eli'sha.

rsv@2Kings:6:18 @ And when the Syrians came down against him, Eli'sha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray thee, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Eli'sha.

rsv@2Kings:6:20 @ As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:24 @ Afterward Ben-ha'dad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:25 @ And there was a great famine in Sama'ria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

rsv@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said, "If the LORD will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"

rsv@2Kings:6:30 @ When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes--now he was passing by upon the wall--and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body--

rsv@2Kings:6:32 @ Eli'sha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence; but before the messenger arrived Eli'sha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

rsv@2Kings:7:1 @ But Eli'sha said, "Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Sama'ria."

rsv@2Kings:7:2 @ Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

rsv@2Kings:7:4 @ If we say, `Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."

rsv@2Kings:7:6 @ For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us."

rsv@2Kings:7:7 @ So they fled away in the twilight and forsook their tents, their horses, and their asses, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.

rsv@2Kings:7:8 @ And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back, and entered another tent, and carried off things from it, and went and hid them.

rsv@2Kings:7:10 @ So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were."

rsv@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, `When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"

rsv@2Kings:7:13 @ And one of his servants said, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel that have already perished; let us send and see."

rsv@2Kings:7:15 @ So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

rsv@2Kings:7:16 @ Then the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine meal was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:7:18 @ For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Sama'ria,"

rsv@2Kings:7:19 @ the captain had answered the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

rsv@2Kings:8:1 @ Now Eli'sha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

rsv@2Kings:8:2 @ So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

rsv@2Kings:8:3 @ And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went forth to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

rsv@2Kings:8:5 @ And while he was telling the king how Eli'sha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Geha'zi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Eli'sha restored to life."

rsv@2Kings:8:6 @ And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now."

rsv@2Kings:8:8 @ the king said to Haz'ael, "Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, `Shall I recover from this sickness?'"

rsv@2Kings:8:9 @ So Haz'ael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, "Your son Ben-ha'dad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, `Shall I recover from this sickness?'"

rsv@2Kings:8:12 @ And Haz'ael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set on fire their fortresses, and you will slay their young men with the sword, and dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child."

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:8:21 @ Then Joram passed over to Za'ir with all his chariots, and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders smote the E'domites who had surrounded him; but his army fled home.

rsv@2Kings:8:23 @ 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:9:18 @ So a man on horseback went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, `Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me." And the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back."

rsv@2Kings:9:20 @ Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."

rsv@2Kings:9:22 @ And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the harlotries and the sorceries of your mother Jez'ebel are so many?"

rsv@2Kings:9:26 @ `As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons--says the LORD--I will requite you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and cast him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD."

rsv@2Kings:9:30 @ When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jez'ebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out of the window.

rsv@2Kings:9:33 @ He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down; and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.

rsv@2Kings:9:36 @ 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:10:2 @ "Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,

rsv@2Kings:10:3 @ select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."

rsv@2Kings:10:5 @ So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do all that you bid us. We will not make any one king; do whatever is good in your eyes."

rsv@2Kings:10:8 @ When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning."

rsv@2Kings:10:9 @ Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood, and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master, and slew him; but who struck down all these?

rsv@2Kings:10:11 @ 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:10:19 @ Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Ba'al, all his worshipers and all his priests; let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Ba'al; whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Ba'al.

rsv@2Kings:10:22 @ He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Ba'al." So he brought out the vestments for them.

rsv@2Kings:10:24 @ Then he went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and said, "The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life."

rsv@2Kings:10:25 @ So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, "Go in and slay them; let not a man escape." So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Ba'al

rsv@2Kings:10:29 @ But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and in Daniel.

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:10:33 @ from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manas'sites, from Aro'er, which is by the valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.

rsv@2Kings:10:34 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings: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:11:4 @ But in the seventh year Jehoi'ada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king's son.

rsv@2Kings:11:8 @ shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever approaches the ranks is to be slain. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in."

rsv@2Kings:11:9 @ The captains did according to all that Jehoi'ada the priest commanded, and each brought his men who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath, and came to Jehoi'ada the priest.

rsv@2Kings:11:10 @ And the priest delivered to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the LORD;

rsv@2Kings:11:12 @ Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!"

rsv@2Kings:11:14 @ and when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athali'ah rent her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

rsv@2Kings:11:15 @ Then Jehoi'ada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, "Bring her out between the ranks; and slay with the sword any one who follows her." For the priest said, "Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD."

rsv@2Kings:11:16 @ So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.

rsv@2Kings:11:18 @ Then all the people of the land went to the house of Ba'al, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they slew Mattan the priest of Ba'al before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:11:19 @ And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.

rsv@2Kings:12:2 @ And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.

rsv@2Kings:12:3 @ Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.

rsv@2Kings:12:4 @ Jeho'ash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed--the money from the assessment of persons--and the money which a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,

rsv@2Kings:12:5 @ let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."

rsv@2Kings:12:6 @ But by the twenty-third year of King Jeho'ash the priests had made no repairs on the house.

rsv@2Kings:12:7 @ Therefore King Jeho'ash summoned Jehoi'ada the priest and the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house."

rsv@2Kings:12:8 @ So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.

rsv@2Kings:12:9 @ Then Jehoi'ada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:12:10 @ And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:12:13 @ But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,

rsv@2Kings:12:15 @ And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.

rsv@2Kings:12:16 @ The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

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:12:20 @ His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and slew Jo'ash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

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:13:5 @ (Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians; and the people of Israel dwelt in their homes as formerly.

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:13:12 @ 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:13:14 @ Now when Eli'sha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Jo'ash king of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, crying, "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"

rsv@2Kings:13:18 @ And he said, "Take the arrows"; and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them"; and he struck three times, and stopped.

rsv@2Kings:13:19 @ Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times."

rsv@2Kings:13:20 @ So Eli'sha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

rsv@2Kings:13:21 @ And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Eli'sha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Eli'sha, he revived, and stood on his feet.

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:14:3 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did in all things as Jo'ash his father had done.

rsv@2Kings:14:4 @ But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

rsv@2Kings:14:6 @ But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

rsv@2Kings:14:7 @ He killed ten thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Jok'the-el, which is its name to this day.

rsv@2Kings:14:8 @ 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:14:11 @ 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:14:13 @ 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:14:14 @ And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Sama'ria.

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:14:18 @ 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:14:20 @ And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

rsv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

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: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:15:4 @ Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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:15:10 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him down at Ibleam, and killed him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:11 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Zechari'ah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:15:13 @ 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:15:15 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:15:21 @ 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:15:25 @ 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:15:29 @ 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:15:31 @ 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:15:34 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done.

rsv@2Kings:15:35 @ Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:15:36 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings: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:16:3 @ but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:16:4 @ And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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:17:4 @ But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshe'a; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

rsv@2Kings:17:5 @ Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria, and for three years he besieged it.

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:17:9 @ And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;

rsv@2Kings:17:10 @ they set up for themselves pillars and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;

rsv@2Kings:17:11 @ and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,

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:17:15 @ They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

rsv@2Kings:17:16 @ And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images of two calves; and they made an Ashe'rah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Ba'al.

rsv@2Kings:17:17 @ And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings, and used divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

rsv@2Kings:17:20 @ And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

rsv@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-va'im, and placed them in the cities of Sama'ria instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Sama'ria, and dwelt in its cities.

rsv@2Kings:17:26 @ So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Sama'ria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."

rsv@2Kings:17:27 @ Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away thence; and let him go and dwell there, and teach them the law of the god of the land."

rsv@2Kings:17:28 @ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Sama'ria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:17:29 @ But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;

rsv@2Kings:17:31 @ and the Av'vites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sephar'vites burned their children in the fire to Adram'melech and Anam'melech, the gods of Sephar-va'im.

rsv@2Kings:17:32 @ They also feared the LORD, and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

rsv@2Kings:17:34 @ To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

rsv@2Kings:17:35 @ The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them;

rsv@2Kings:17:36 @ but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.

rsv@2Kings:17:37 @ And the statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,

rsv@2Kings:17:39 @ but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."

rsv@2Kings:17:41 @ So these nations feared the LORD, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children--as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

rsv@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

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:18:6 @ For he held fast to the LORD; he did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@2Kings:18:8 @ He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.

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:18:11 @ The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

rsv@2Kings:18:12 @ because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.

rsv@2Kings:18:13 @ In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki'ah Sennach'erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

rsv@2Kings:18:15 @ 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:18:19 @ 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:18:23 @ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.

rsv@2Kings:18:25 @ Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"

rsv@2Kings:18:27 @ But the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?"

rsv@2Kings:18:32 @ 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:18:35 @ Who among all the gods of the countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem 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:19:9 @ 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:19:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

rsv@2Kings:19:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?

rsv@2Kings:19:14 @ Hezeki'ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezeki'ah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:19:16 @ Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennach'erib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

rsv@2Kings:19:18 @ 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@2Kings:19:19 @ So now, O LORD our God, save us, I beseech thee, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, O LORD, art God alone."

rsv@2Kings:19:21 @ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you--the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you--the daughter of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:19:22 @ "Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

rsv@2Kings:19:23 @ By your messengers you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, `With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.

rsv@2Kings:19:25 @ "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

rsv@2Kings:19:35 @ And that night 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@2Kings:19:37 @ And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And Esarhad'don his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:20:3 @ "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight." And Hezeki'ah wept bitterly.

rsv@2Kings:20:12 @ 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:20:20 @ 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:21:2 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

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:21:8 @ and I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them."

rsv@2Kings:21:9 @ But they did not listen, and Manas'seh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:21:11 @ "Because Manas'seh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;

rsv@2Kings:21:13 @ 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:21:14 @ And I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,

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:21:25 @ 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:22:2 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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:22:7 @ But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money which is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly."

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:22:11 @ And when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he rent his clothes.

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:22:14 @ 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:22:19 @ because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:22:20 @ Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.'" And they brought back word to the king.

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:23:3 @ And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people joined in the covenant.

rsv@2Kings:23:4 @ And the king commanded Hilki'ah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Ba'al, for Ashe'rah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

rsv@2Kings:23:5 @ And he deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of Judah and round about Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Ba'al, to the sun, and the moon, and the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.

rsv@2Kings:23:6 @ 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:23:9 @ However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

rsv@2Kings:23:11 @ 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:23:13 @ And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ash'toreth the abomination of the Sido'nians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Kings:23:14 @ And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Ashe'rim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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:23:18 @ And he said, "Let him be; let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Sama'ria.

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:23:20 @ And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there, upon the altars, and burned the bones of men upon them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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:23:24 @ Moreover Josi'ah put away the mediums and the wizards and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilki'ah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:23:25 @ Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

rsv@2Kings:23:26 @ 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:23:28 @ 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:23:35 @ And Jehoi'akim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

rsv@2Kings:24:2 @ And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chalde'ans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

rsv@2Kings:24:5 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoi'akim, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:24:7 @ And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@2Kings:24:10 @ At that time the servants of Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

rsv@2Kings:24:11 @ And Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

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:24:13 @ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold.

rsv@2Kings:24:14 @ He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest people of the land.

rsv@2Kings:24:15 @ And he carried away Jehoi'achin to Babylon; the king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land, he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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:25:7 @ 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:25:9 @ 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@2Kings:25:11 @ And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard carried into exile.

rsv@2Kings:25:12 @ But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

rsv@2Kings:25:13 @ 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 the bronze to Babylon.

rsv@2Kings:25:14 @ And they took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,

rsv@2Kings:25:16 @ As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

rsv@2Kings:25:17 @ The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and upon it was a capital of bronze; the height of the capital was three cubits; a network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were upon the capital round about. And the second pillar had the like, with the network.

rsv@2Kings:25:18 @ 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:25:23 @ 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:25:26 @ Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose, and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:1 @ Adam, Seth, Enosh;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:2 @ Kenan, Ma-hal'alel, Jared;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:3 @ Enoch, Methu'selah, Lamech;

rsv@1Chronicles:1:4 @ Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:5 @ The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

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:1:8 @ The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

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:1:10 @ Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:11 @ Egypt was the father of Ludim, An'amim, Le'habim, Naph-tu'him,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:12 @ Pathru'sim, Caslu'him (whence came the Philis'tines), and Caph'torim.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:13 @ Canaan was the father of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:14 @ and the Jeb'usites, the Am'orites, the Gir'gashites,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:15 @ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:16 @ the Ar'vadites, the Zem'arites, and the Ha'mathites.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:17 @ The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpach'shad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:18 @ Arpach'shad was the father of Shelah; and Shelah was the father of Eber.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:19 @ To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother Joktan.

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:1:22 @ Ebal, Abim'a-el, Sheba,

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:1:25 @ Eber, Peleg, Re'u;

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:1:29 @ These are their genealogies: the first-born of Ish'mael, Neba'ioth; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

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:1:36 @ The sons of Eli'phaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Am'alek.

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:1:39 @ The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

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:1:42 @ The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Za'avan, and Ja'akan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:43 @ These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela the son of Be'or, the name of whose city was Din'habah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:44 @ When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:45 @ When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Te'manites reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:46 @ When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Mid'ian in the country of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:47 @ When Hadad died, Samlah of Masre'kah reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:48 @ When Samlah died, Sha'ul of Reho'both on the Euphra'tes reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:49 @ When Sha'ul died, Ba'al-ha'nan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:50 @ When Ba'al-ha'nan died, Hadad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pa'i, and his wife's name Mehet'abel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me'zahab.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:51 @ And Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Al'iah, Jetheth,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:52 @ Oholiba'mah, Elah, Pinon,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:53 @ Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:54 @ Mag'di-el, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:1 @ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun,

rsv@1Chronicles:2:2 @ Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naph'tali, Gad, and Asher.

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:2:5 @ The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:6 @ The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:7 @ The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the matter of the devoted thing;

rsv@1Chronicles:2:8 @ 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:2:12 @ Bo'az of Obed, Obed of Jesse.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:13 @ Jesse was the father of Eli'ab his first-born, Abin'adab the second, Shim'ea the third,

rsv@1Chronicles:2:14 @ Nethan'el the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

rsv@1Chronicles:2:15 @ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

rsv@1Chronicles:2:16 @ and their sisters were Zeru'iah and Ab'igail. The sons of Zeru'iah: Abi'shai, Jo'ab, and As'ahel, three.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:17 @ Ab'igail bore Ama'sa, and the father of Ama'sa was Jether the Ish'maelite.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:18 @ 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:2:20 @ Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bez'alel.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:21 @ Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub;

rsv@1Chronicles:2:22 @ and Segub was the father of Ja'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:23 @ But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-ja'ir, Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.

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:2:28 @ The sons of Onam: Sham'mai and Jada. The sons of Sham'mai: Nadab and Abi'shur.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:29 @ The name of Abi'shur's wife was Ab'ihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:30 @ The sons of Nadab: Seled and Ap'pa-im; and Seled died childless.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:31 @ The sons of Ap'pa-im: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:32 @ The sons of Jada, Sham'mai's brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:33 @ The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerah'meel.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:34 @ Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters; but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, whose name was Jarha.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:35 @ So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave; and she bore him Attai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:36 @ Attai was the father of Nathan and Nathan of Zabad.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:37 @ Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal of Obed.

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:2:45 @ The son of Sham'mai: Ma'on; and Ma'on was the father of Bethzur.

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:2:51 @ Salma, the father of Bethelem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:52 @ Shobal the father of Kir'iath-je'arim had other sons: Haro'eh, half of the Menu'hoth.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:53 @ And the families of Kir'iath-je'arim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shu'mathites, and the Mish'ra-ites; from these came the Zo'rathites and the Esh'taolites.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:54 @ The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netoph'athites, At'roth-beth-jo'ab, and half of the Man'aha'thites, the Zorites.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:55 @ The families also of the scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Ti'rathites, the Shim'e-athites, and the Su'cathites. These are the Ken'ites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:1 @ These are the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, by Ahin'o-am the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, by Ab'igail the Car'melitess,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:2 @ the third Ab'salom, whose mother was Ma'acah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adoni'jah, whose mother was Haggith;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:3 @ the fifth Shephati'ah, by Abi'tal; the sixth Ith'ream, by his wife Eglah;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:4 @ six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:5 @ These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shim'e-a, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shu'a, the daughter of Am'mi-el;

rsv@1Chronicles:3:6 @ then Ibhar, Eli'shama, Eliph'elet,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:7 @ Nogah, Nepheg, Japhi'a,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:8 @ Eli'shama, Eli'ada, and Eliph'elet, nine.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:9 @ All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

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:4:3 @ These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelpo'ni,

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:4:9 @ Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."

rsv@1Chronicles:4:10 @ Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that thou wouldst bless me and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from harm so that it might not hurt me!" And God granted what he asked.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:11 @ 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:4:22 @ and Jokim, and the men of Coze'ba, and Jo'ash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient).

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:4:25 @ Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:26 @ The sons of Mishma: Ham'mu-el his son, Zac'cur his son, Shim'e-i his son.

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:4:31 @ Beth-mar'caboth, Ha'zar-su'sim, Beth-biri, and Sha-ara'im. These were their cities until David reigned.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:32 @ And their villages were Etam, A'in, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:33 @ along with all their villages which were round about these cities as far as Ba'al. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.

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:4:38 @ these mentioned by name were princes in their families, and their fathers' houses increased greatly.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:39 @ They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:40 @ where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful; for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:41 @ These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Me-u'nim who were found there, and exterminated them to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:42 @ And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Se'ir, having as their leaders Pelati'ah, Ne-ari'ah, Rephai'ah, and Uz'ziel, the sons of Ishi;

rsv@1Chronicles:4:43 @ and they destroyed the remnant of the Amal'ekites that had escaped, and they have dwelt there to this day.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:1 @ The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but because he polluted his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;

rsv@1Chronicles:5:2 @ though Judah became strong among his brothers and a prince was from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

rsv@1Chronicles:5:3 @ the sons of Reuben, the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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:5:8 @ and Bela the son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Jo'el, who dwelt in Aro'er, as far as Nebo and Ba'al-me'on.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:9 @ He also dwelt to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphra'tes, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:10 @ And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:11 @ The sons of Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Bashan as far as Sal'ecah:

rsv@1Chronicles:5:12 @ Jo'el the chief, Shapham the second, Ja'nai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:13 @ And their kinsmen according to their fathers' houses: Michael, Meshul'lam, Sheba, Jo'rai, Jacan, Zi'a, and Eber, seven.

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:5:16 @ and they dwelt in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon to their limits.

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:5:18 @ The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh had valiant men, who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, ready for service.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:19 @ They made war upon the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab;

rsv@1Chronicles:5:20 @ and when they received help against them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried to God in the battle, and he granted their entreaty because they trusted in him.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:21 @ They carried off their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men alive.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:22 @ For many fell slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the exile.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:23 @ The members of the half-tribe of Manas'seh dwelt in the land; they were very numerous from Bashan to Ba'al-her'mon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.

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:5:25 @ But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:26 @ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Til'gath-pilne'ser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:1 @ The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merar'i.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:2 @ The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uz'ziel.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:3 @ The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:4 @ Elea'zar was the father of Phin'ehas, Phin'ehas of Abishu'a,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:5 @ Abishu'a of Bukki, Bukki of Uzzi,

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:6:16 @ The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merar'i.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:17 @ And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shim'e-i.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:18 @ The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uz'ziel.

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:6:31 @ These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the LORD, after the ark rested there.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:32 @ They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem; and they performed their service in due order.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:33 @ These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Ko'hathites: Heman the singer the son of Jo'el, son of Samuel,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:34 @ 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:6:38 @ son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel;

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:6:44 @ On the left hand were their brethren the sons of Merar'i: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:45 @ son of Hashabi'ah, son of Amazi'ah, son of Hilki'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:46 @ son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:47 @ son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merar'i, son of Levi;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:48 @ and their brethren the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:49 @ But Aaron and his sons made offerings upon the altar of burnt offering and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:50 @ These are the sons of Aaron: Elea'zar his son, Phin'ehas his son, Abishu'a his son,

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:6:54 @ These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Ko'hathites, for theirs was the lot,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:55 @ to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:56 @ but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh.

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:6:58 @ Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:59 @ Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-she'mesh with its pasture lands;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:60 @ and from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasture lands, Al'emeth with its pasture lands, and An'athoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:61 @ To the rest of the Ko'hathites were given by lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manas'seh, ten cities.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:62 @ To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Is'sachar, Asher, Naph'tali, and Manas'seh in Bashan.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:63 @ To the Merar'ites according to their families were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zeb'ulun.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:64 @ So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:65 @ They also gave them by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities which are mentioned by name.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:66 @ And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of E'phraim.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:67 @ They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of E'phraim, Gezer with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:68 @ Jok'me-am with its pasture lands, Beth-hor'on with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:69 @ Ai'jalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rim'mon with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:70 @ and out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh, Aner with its pasture lands, and Bil'e-am with its pasture lands, for the rest of the families of the Ko'hathites.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:71 @ To the Gershomites were given out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ash'taroth with its pasture lands;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:72 @ and out of the tribe of Is'sachar: Kedesh with its pasture lands, Dab'erath with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:73 @ Ramoth with its pasture lands, and Anem with its pasture lands;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:74 @ out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:75 @ Hukok with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:76 @ and out of the tribe of Naph'tali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, Ham'mon with its pasture lands, and Kiriatha'im with its pasture lands.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:77 @ To the rest of the Merar'ites were allotted out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun: Rim'mono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:78 @ and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the steppe with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles:6:79 @ Ked'emoth with its pasture lands, and Meph'a-ath 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:6:81 @ Heshbon with its pasture lands, and Jazer 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:7:4 @ and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:5 @ Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Is'sachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:6 @ The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedi'a-el, three.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:7 @ The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uz'ziel, Jer'imoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

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:7:9 @ and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.

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:7:11 @ All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:12 @ 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:7:14 @ The sons of Manas'seh: As'ri-el, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

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:7:17 @ The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manas'seh.

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:7:22 @ And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

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:7:26 @ Ladan his son, Ammi'hud his son, Eli'shama his son,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:27 @ Nun his son, Joshua 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:7:29 @ also along the borders of the Manas'sites, Beth-she'an and its towns, Ta'anach and its towns, Megid'do and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:30 @ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:31 @ The sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el, who was the father of Bir'zaith.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:32 @ Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shu'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:33 @ The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.

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:7:38 @ The sons of Jether: Jephun'neh, Pispa, and Ara.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:39 @ The sons of Ulla: Arah, Han'niel, and Rizi'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:40 @ All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.

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:8:3 @ And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abi'hud,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:4 @ Abishu'a, Na'aman, Aho'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:5 @ Gera, Shephu'phan, and Huram.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:6 @ These are the sons of Ehud (they were heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to Mana'hath):

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:8:9 @ He had sons by Hodesh his wife: Jobab, Zib'i-a, Mesha, Malcam,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:10 @ Je'uz, Sachi'a, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' houses.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:11 @ He also had sons by Hushim: Abi'tub and Elpa'al.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:12 @ The sons of Elpa'al: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns,

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:8:19 @ Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:20 @ Eli-e'nai, Zil'lethai, Eli'el,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:21 @ Adai'ah, Berai'ah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shim'e-i.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:22 @ Ishpan, Eber, Eli'el,

rsv@1Chronicles:8:23 @ Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,

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:8:28 @ These were the heads of fathers' houses, according to their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

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:8:30 @ His first-born son: Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Ba'al, Nadab,

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:8:33 @ Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Mal'chishu'a, Abin'adab, and Esh-ba'al;

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:8:39 @ The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his first-born, Je'ush the second, and Eliph'elet the third.

rsv@1Chronicles:8:40 @ The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:1 @ So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:2 @ Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:3 @ 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:9:9 @ and their kinsmen according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses.

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:9:13 @ besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

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:9:18 @ stationed hitherto in the king's gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:19 @ Shallum the son of Ko're, son of Ebi'asaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers' house, the Ko'rahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:20 @ And Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar was the ruler over them in time past; the LORD was with him.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:21 @ Zechari'ah the son of Meshelemi'ah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:22 @ All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:23 @ So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:24 @ The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:25 @ and their kinsmen who were in their villages were obliged to come in every seven days, from time to time, to be with these;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:26 @ for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:27 @ And they lodged round about the house of God; for upon them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:28 @ Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:29 @ Others of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:30 @ Others, of the sons of the priests, prepared the mixing of the spices,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:31 @ and Mattithi'ah, one of the Levites, the first-born of Shallum the Ko'rahite, was in charge of making the flat cakes.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:32 @ Also some of their kinsmen of the Ko'hathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:33 @ Now these are the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, dwelling in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:34 @ These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders, who lived in Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:35 @ In Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Je-i'el, and the name of his wife was Ma'acah,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:36 @ and his first-born son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Ba'al, Ner, Nadab,

rsv@1Chronicles:9:37 @ Gedor, Ahi'o, Zech-ari'ah and Mikloth;

rsv@1Chronicles:9:38 @ and Mikloth was the father of Shim'e-am; and these also dwelt opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:39 @ Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Mal'chishu'a, Abin'adab, and Eshba'al;

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:10:1 @ Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:2 @ And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abin'adab and Mal'chishu'a, the sons of Saul.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:3 @ The battle pressed hard upon Saul, and the archers found him; and he was wounded by the archers.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:4 @ Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and make sport of me." But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:5 @ And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword, and died.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:6 @ Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:7 @ And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:8 @ On the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:9 @ And they stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:10 @ And they put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:11 @ But when all Ja'besh-gil'ead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

rsv@1Chronicles:10:12 @ all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

rsv@1Chronicles:10:13 @ So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance,

rsv@1Chronicles:10:14 @ and did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD slew him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:1 @ Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron, and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:2 @ In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD your God said to you, `You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.'"

rsv@1Chronicles:11:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:4 @ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jeb'usites were, the inhabitants of the land.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:5 @ The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not come in here." Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

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:11:7 @ And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:8 @ And he built the city round about from the Millo in complete circuit; and Jo'ab repaired the rest of the city.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:9 @ And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:10 @ Now these are the chiefs of David's mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:11 @ This is an account of David's mighty men: Jasho'be-am, a Hach'monite, was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against three hundred whom he slew at one time.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:12 @ And next to him among the three mighty men was Elea'zar the son of Dodo, the Aho'hite.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:13 @ He was with David at Pas-dam'mim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:14 @ But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great victory.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:15 @ Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:16 @ David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:17 @ And David said longingly, "O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!"

rsv@1Chronicles:11:18 @ Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But David would not drink of it; he poured it out to the LORD,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:19 @ and said, "Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:20 @ Now Abi'shai, the brother of Jo'ab, 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@1Chronicles:11:21 @ He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.

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:11:25 @ He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

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:11:27 @ Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pel'onite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:28 @ Ira the son of Ikkesh of Teko'a, Abi-e'zer of An'athoth,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:29 @ Sib'becai the Hu'shathite, I'lai the Aho'hite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:30 @ 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:11:32 @ Hurai of the brooks of Ga'ash, Abi'el the Ar'bathite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:33 @ Az'maveth of Baha'rum, Eli'ahba of Sha-al'bon,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:34 @ Hashem the Gi'zonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Har'arite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:35 @ Ahi'am the son of Sachar the Har'arite, Eli'phal the son of Ur,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:36 @ Hepher the Meche'rathite, Ahi'jah the Pel'onite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:37 @ Hezro of Carmel, Na'arai the son of Ezbai,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:38 @ Jo'el the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:39 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Na'harai of Be-er'oth, the armor-bearer of Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:40 @ Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:41 @ Uri'ah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:42 @ Ad'ina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:43 @ Hanan the son of Ma'acah, and Josh'aphat the Mithnite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:44 @ Uzzi'a the Ash'terathite, Shama and Je-i'el the sons of Hotham the Aro'erite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:45 @ Jedi'a-el the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:46 @ Eli'el the Ma'havite, and Jer'ibai, and Joshavi'ah, the sons of El'na-am, and Ithmah the Mo'abite,

rsv@1Chronicles:11:47 @ Eli'el, and Obed, and Ja-asi'el the Mezo'ba-ite.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:1 @ Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:2 @ They were bowmen, and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:3 @ 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:12:8 @ From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:

rsv@1Chronicles:12:9 @ Ezer the chief, Obadi'ah second, Eli'ab third,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:10 @ Mishman'nah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:11 @ Attai sixth, Eli'el seventh,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:12 @ Joha'nan eighth, Elza'bad ninth,

rsv@1Chronicles:12:13 @ Jeremiah tenth, Mach'bannai eleventh.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:14 @ These Gadites were officers of the army, the lesser over a hundred and the greater over a thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:15 @ These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:16 @ And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:17 @ David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be knit to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you."

rsv@1Chronicles:12:18 @ Then the Spirit came upon Ama'sai, chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David; and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you." Then David received them, and made them officers of his troops.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:19 @ Some of the men of Manas'seh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, "At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.")

rsv@1Chronicles:12:20 @ As he went to Ziklag these men of Manas'seh deserted to him: Adnah, Joz'abad, Jedi'a-el, Michael, Joz'abad, Eli'hu, and Zil'lethai, chiefs of thousands in Manas'seh.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:21 @ They helped David against the band of raiders; for they were all mighty men of valor, and were commanders in the army.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:22 @ For from day to day men kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:23 @ These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops, who came to David in Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:24 @ The men of Judah bearing shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred armed troops.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:25 @ Of the Simeonites, mighty men of valor for war, seven thousand one hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:26 @ Of the Levites four thousand six hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:27 @ The prince Jehoi'ada, of the house of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:28 @ Zadok, a young man mighty in valor, and twenty-two commanders from his own father's house.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:29 @ Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, of whom the majority had hitherto kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:30 @ Of the E'phraimites twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:31 @ Of the half-tribe of Manas'seh eighteen thousand, who were expressly named to come and make David king.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:32 @ Of Is'sachar men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, two hundred chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:33 @ Of Zeb'ulun fifty thousand seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:34 @ Of Naph'tali a thousand commanders with whom were thirty-seven thousand men armed with shield and spear.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:35 @ Of the Danites twenty-eight thousand six hundred men equipped for battle.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:36 @ Of Asher forty thousand seasoned troops ready for battle.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:37 @ Of the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh from beyond the Jordan, one hundred and twenty thousand men armed with all the weapons of war.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:38 @ All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel; likewise all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:39 @ And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren had made preparation for them.

rsv@1Chronicles:12:40 @ And also their neighbors, from as far as Is'sachar and Zeb'ulun and Naph'tali, came bringing food on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of meal, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:1 @ David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:2 @ And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brethren who remain in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasture lands, that they may come together to us.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:3 @ Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us; for we neglected it in the days of Saul."

rsv@1Chronicles:13:4 @ All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:5 @ So David assembled all Israel from the Shihor of Egypt to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kir'iath-je'arim.

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:13:8 @ And David and all Israel were making merry before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.

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:13:12 @ And David was afraid of God that day; and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God home to me?"

rsv@1Chronicles:13:13 @ So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.

rsv@1Chronicles:13:14 @ And the ark of God remained with the household of O'bed-e'dom in his house three months; and the LORD blessed the household of O'bed-e'dom and all that he had.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:1 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:2 @ And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:3 @ And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David begot more sons and daughters.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:4 @ These are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammu'a, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

rsv@1Chronicles:14:5 @ Ibhar, Eli'shu-a, El'pelet,

rsv@1Chronicles:14:6 @ Nogah, Nepheg, Japhi'a,

rsv@1Chronicles:14:7 @ Eli'shama, Beeli'ada, and Eliph'elet.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:8 @ When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; and David heard of it and went out against them.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:9 @ Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:10 @ And David inquired of God, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up, and I will give them into your hand."

rsv@1Chronicles:14:11 @ And he went up to Ba'al-pera'zim, and David defeated them there; and David said, "God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Ba'al-pera'zim.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:12 @ And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:13 @ And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:14 @ And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, "You shall not go up after them; go around and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:15 @ And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."

rsv@1Chronicles:14:16 @ And David did as God commanded him, and they smote the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:17 @ And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:1 @ David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:2 @ Then David said, "No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him for ever."

rsv@1Chronicles:15:3 @ And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:4 @ And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:

rsv@1Chronicles:15:5 @ of the sons of Kohath, Uri'el the chief, with a hundred and twenty of his brethren;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:6 @ of the sons of Merar'i, Asai'ah the chief, with two hundred and twenty of his brethren;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:7 @ of the sons of Gershom, Jo'el the chief, with a hundred and thirty 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:15:9 @ of the sons of Hebron, Eli'el the chief, with eighty of his brethren;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:10 @ of the sons of Uz'ziel, Ammin'adab the chief, with a hundred and twelve 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:15:12 @ and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:13 @ Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke forth upon us, because we did not care for it in the way that is ordained."

rsv@1Chronicles:15:14 @ So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:15 @ And the Levites carried the ark of God upon their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:16 @ David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:17 @ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Jo'el; and of his brethren Asaph the son of Berechi'ah; and of the sons of Merar'i, their brethren, Ethan the son of Kusha'iah;

rsv@1Chronicles:15:18 @ and with them their brethren of the second order, Zechari'ah, Ja-a'ziel, Shemi'ramoth, Jehi'el, Unni, Eli'ab, Benai'ah, Ma-asei'ah, Mattithi'ah, Eliph'elehu, and Miknei'ah, and the gatekeepers O'bed-e'dom and Je-i'el.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:19 @ The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals;

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:15:25 @ So David and the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of O'bed-e'dom with rejoicing.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:26 @ And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:27 @ David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenani'ah the leader of the music of the singers; and David wore a linen ephod.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:28 @ So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:29 @ And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David dancing and making merry; and she despised him in her heart.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:1 @ And they brought the ark of God, and set it inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:2 @ And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:3 @ and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:4 @ Moreover he appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:5 @ 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:16:7 @ Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the LORD by Asaph and his brethren.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:8 @ O give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:9 @ Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:10 @ Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:11 @ Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:12 @ Remember the wonderful works that he has done, the wonders he wrought, the judgments he uttered,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:13 @ O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:14 @ He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:15 @ He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:16 @ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:17 @ which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:18 @ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance."

rsv@1Chronicles:16:19 @ When they were few in number, and of little account, and sojourners in it,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:20 @ wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:21 @ he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:22 @ saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"

rsv@1Chronicles:16:23 @ Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:24 @ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:25 @ For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:26 @ For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the LORD made the heavens.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:27 @ Honor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:28 @ Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:29 @ Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come before him! Worship the LORD in holy array;

rsv@1Chronicles:16:30 @ tremble before him, all the earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:31 @ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"

rsv@1Chronicles:16:32 @ Let the sea roar, and all that fills it, let the field exult, and everything in it!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:33 @ Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:34 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@1Chronicles:16:35 @ Say also: "Deliver us, O God of our salvation, and gather and save us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:36 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!" Then all the people said "Amen!" and praised the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:37 @ So David left Asaph and his brethren there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister continually before the ark as each day required,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:38 @ and also O'bed-e'dom and his sixty-eight brethren; while O'bed-e'dom, the son of Jedu'thun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:39 @ And he left Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,

rsv@1Chronicles:16:40 @ to offer burnt offerings to the LORD upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, according to all that is written in the law of the LORD which he commanded Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:41 @ With them were Heman and Jedu'thun, and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:42 @ Heman and Jedu'thun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jedu'thun were appointed to the gate.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:43 @ Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:1 @ Now when David dwelt in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."

rsv@1Chronicles:17:2 @ And Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."

rsv@1Chronicles:17:3 @ But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

rsv@1Chronicles:17:4 @ "Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: You shall not build me a house to dwell in.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:5 @ For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I led up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:6 @ In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'

rsv@1Chronicles:17:7 @ Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;

rsv@1Chronicles:17:8 @ and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:9 @ And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,

rsv@1Chronicles:17:10 @ from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:11 @ When your days are fulfilled to go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:12 @ He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:13 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son; I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,

rsv@1Chronicles:17:14 @ but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom for ever and his throne shall be established for ever.'"

rsv@1Chronicles:17:15 @ In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:16 @ Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

rsv@1Chronicles:17:17 @ And this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God; thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O LORD God!

rsv@1Chronicles:17:18 @ And what more can David say to thee for honoring thy servant? For thou knowest thy servant.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:19 @ For thy servant's sake, O LORD, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:20 @ There is none like thee, O LORD, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:21 @ What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for thyself a name for great and terrible things, in driving out nations before thy people whom thou didst redeem from Egypt?

rsv@1Chronicles:17:22 @ And thou didst make thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:23 @ And now, O LORD, let the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast spoken;

rsv@1Chronicles:17:24 @ and thy name will be established and magnified for ever, saying, `The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God,' and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:25 @ For thou, my God, hast revealed to thy servant that thou wilt build a house for him; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray before thee.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:26 @ And now, O LORD, thou art God, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;

rsv@1Chronicles:17:27 @ now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for what thou, O LORD, hast blessed is blessed for ever."

rsv@1Chronicles:18:1 @ After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:2 @ And he defeated Moab, and the Mo'abites became servants to David and brought tribute.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:3 @ David also defeated Hadade'zer king of Zobah, toward Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:4 @ And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots.

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:18:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:7 @ And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadade'zer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:8 @ And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadade'zer, David took very much bronze; with it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:9 @ When To'u king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadade'zer, king of Zobah,

rsv@1Chronicles:18:10 @ he sent his son Hador'am to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'u. And he sent all sorts of articles of gold, of silver, and of bronze;

rsv@1Chronicles:18:11 @ these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Am'alek.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:12 @ And Abi'shai, the son of Zeru'iah, slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:13 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:14 @ So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and equity to all his people.

rsv@1Chronicles:18:15 @ 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:19:3 @ But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?"

rsv@1Chronicles:19:4 @ So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away;

rsv@1Chronicles:19:5 @ and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

rsv@1Chronicles:19:6 @ When the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopota'mia, from Aram-ma'acah, and from Zobah.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:7 @ They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Ma'acah with his army, who came and encamped before Med'eba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:8 @ When David heard of it, he sent Jo'ab and all the army of the mighty men.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:9 @ And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:10 @ When Jo'ab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Syrians;

rsv@1Chronicles:19:11 @ the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:12 @ And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:13 @ Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him."

rsv@1Chronicles:19:14 @ So Jo'ab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle; and they fled before him.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:15 @ And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abi'shai, Jo'ab's brother, and entered the city. Then Jo'ab came to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:16 @ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphra'tes, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadade'zer at their head.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:17 @ And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and crossed the Jordan, and came to them, and drew up his forces against them. And when David set the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:18 @ And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand foot soldiers, and killed also Shophach the commander of their army.

rsv@1Chronicles:19:19 @ And when the servants of Hadade'zer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David, and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to help the Ammonites any more.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:1 @ In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, Jo'ab led out the army, and ravaged the country of the Ammonites, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Jo'ab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:2 @ And David took the crown of their king from his head; he found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:3 @ And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and axes; and thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:4 @ And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sib'becai the Hu'shathite slew Sip'pai, who was one of the descendants of the giants; and the Philistines were subdued.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:5 @ And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elha'nan the son of Ja'ir slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:6 @ And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was descended from the giants.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:7 @ And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shim'e-a, David's brother, slew him.

rsv@1Chronicles:20:8 @ These were descended from the giants in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:1 @ Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:2 @ So David said to Jo'ab and the commanders of the army, "Go, number Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:3 @ But Jo'ab said, "May the LORD add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should he bring guilt upon Israel?"

rsv@1Chronicles:21:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Jo'ab. So Jo'ab departed and went throughout all Israel, and came back to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:5 @ 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:21:6 @ But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king's command was abhorrent to Jo'ab.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:7 @ But God was displeased with this thing, and he smote Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:8 @ And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:9 @ And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,

rsv@1Chronicles:21:10 @ "Go and say to David, `Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.'"

rsv@1Chronicles:21:11 @ So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Take which you will:

rsv@1Chronicles:21:12 @ either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence upon the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:13 @ Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but let me not fall into the hand of man."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:14 @ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell seventy thousand men of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:15 @ And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but when he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he repented of the evil; and he said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:16 @ And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:17 @ And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father's house; but let not the plague be upon thy people."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:18 @ Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and rear an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:19 @ So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:20 @ Now Ornan was threshing wheat; he turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:21 @ As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went forth from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:22 @ And David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD--give it to me at its full price--that the plague may be averted from the people."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:23 @ Then Ornan said to David, "Take it; and let my lord the king do what seems good to him; see, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for a cereal offering. I give it all."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:24 @ But King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will buy it for the full price; I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing."

rsv@1Chronicles:21:25 @ So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:26 @ And David built there an altar to the LORD and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD, and he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:27 @ Then the LORD commanded the angel; and he put his sword back into its sheath.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:28 @ At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite, he made his sacrifices there.

rsv@1Chronicles:21:29 @ For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon;

rsv@1Chronicles:21:30 @ but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:1 @ Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

rsv@1Chronicles:22:2 @ David commanded to gather together the aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:3 @ David also provided great stores of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,

rsv@1Chronicles:22:4 @ and cedar timbers without number; for the Sido'nians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:5 @ For David said, "Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands; I will therefore make preparation for it." So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:6 @ Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:7 @ David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:8 @ But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, `You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me upon the earth.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:9 @ Behold, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of peace. I will give him peace from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:10 @ He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel for ever.'

rsv@1Chronicles:22:11 @ Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:12 @ Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:13 @ Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Fear not; be not dismayed.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:14 @ With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone too I have provided. To these you must add.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:15 @ You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working

rsv@1Chronicles:22:16 @ gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and be doing! The LORD be with you!"

rsv@1Chronicles:22:17 @ David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

rsv@1Chronicles:22:18 @ "Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD and his people.

rsv@1Chronicles:22:19 @ Now set your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the LORD."

rsv@1Chronicles:23:1 @ When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:2 @ David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:3 @ The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was thirty-eight thousand men.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:4 @ "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, six thousand shall be officers and judges,

rsv@1Chronicles:23:5 @ four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments which I have made for praise."

rsv@1Chronicles:23:6 @ And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merar'i.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:7 @ The sons of Gersham were Ladan and Shim'e-i.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:8 @ The sons of Ladan: Jehi'el the chief, and Zetham, and Jo'el, three.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:9 @ The sons of Shim'e-i: Shelo'moth, Ha'zi-el, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.

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:23:12 @ The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uz'ziel, four.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:13 @ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things, that he and his sons for ever should burn incense before the LORD, and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:14 @ But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:15 @ The sons of Moses: Gershom and Elie'zer.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:16 @ The sons of Gershom: Sheb'uel the chief.

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:23:18 @ The sons of Izhar: Shelo'mith the chief.

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:23:22 @ Elea'zar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:23 @ The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jer'emoth, three.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:24 @ These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, the heads of fathers' houses as they were registered according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:25 @ For David said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given peace to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:26 @ And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service"--

rsv@1Chronicles:23:27 @ for by the last words of David these were the number of the Levites from twenty years old and upward--

rsv@1Chronicles:23:28 @ "but their duty shall be to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God;

rsv@1Chronicles:23:29 @ to assist also with the showbread, the flour for the cereal offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:30 @ And they shall stand every morning, thanking and praising the LORD, and likewise at evening,

rsv@1Chronicles:23:31 @ and whenever burnt offerings are offered to the LORD on sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, continually before the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:32 @ Thus they shall keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and shall attend the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of the LORD."

rsv@1Chronicles:24:1 @ The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:2 @ But Nadab and Abi'hu died before their father, and had no children, so Elea'zar and Ith'amar became the priests.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:3 @ With the help of Zadok of the sons of Elea'zar, and Ahim'elech of the sons of Ith'amar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:4 @ Since more chief men were found among the sons of Elea'zar than among the sons of Ith'amar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers' houses of the sons of Elea'zar, and eight of the sons of Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:5 @ They organized them by lot, all alike, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both the sons of Elea'zar and the sons of Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:6 @ And the scribe Shemai'ah the son of Nethan'el, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahim'elech the son of Abi'athar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites; one father's house being chosen for Elea'zar and one chosen for Ith'amar.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:7 @ The first lot fell to Jehoi'arib, the second to Jedai'ah,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:8 @ the third to Harim, the fourth to Se-o'rim,

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:24:12 @ the eleventh to Eli'ashib, the twelfth to Jakim,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:13 @ the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jesheb'e-ab,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:14 @ the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:15 @ the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Hap'pizzez,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:16 @ the nineteenth to Pethahi'ah, the twentieth to Jehez'kel,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:17 @ the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,

rsv@1Chronicles:24:18 @ the twenty-third to Delai'ah, the twenty-fourth to Ma-azi'ah.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:19 @ These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

rsv@1Chronicles:24:20 @ 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:25:1 @ David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jedu'thun, who should prophesy with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:

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:25:5 @ All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him; for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:6 @ They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jedu'thun, and Heman were under the order of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:7 @ The number of them along with their brethren, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skilful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

rsv@1Chronicles:25:8 @ And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

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:25:10 @ the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:11 @ the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren, 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:25:17 @ the tenth to Shim'e-i, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:18 @ the eleventh to Az'arel, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:19 @ the twelfth to Hashabi'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:20 @ to the thirteenth, Shu'ba-el, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:21 @ to the fourteenth, Mattithi'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:22 @ to the fifteenth, to Jer'emoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:23 @ to the sixteenth, to Hanani'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:24 @ to the seventeenth, to Joshbekash'ah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:25 @ to the eighteenth, to Hana'ni, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:26 @ to the nineteenth, to Mallo'thi, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:27 @ to the twentieth, to Eli'athah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:28 @ to the twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

rsv@1Chronicles:25:29 @ to the twenty-second, to Giddal'ti, 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:25:31 @ to the twenty-fourth, to Romam'ti-e'zer, 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:26:3 @ Elam the fifth, Jehoha'nan the sixth, Eli-e-ho-e'nai the seventh.

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:26:5 @ Am'mi-el the sixth, Is'sachar the seventh, Pe-ul'lethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

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:26:8 @ All these were of the sons of O'bed-e'dom with their sons and brethren, able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of O'bed-e'dom.

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:26:12 @ These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brethren did, ministering in the house of the LORD;

rsv@1Chronicles:26:13 @ and they cast lots by fathers' houses, small and great alike, for their gates.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:14 @ 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:26:15 @ O'bed-e'dom's came out for the south, and to his sons was allotted the storehouse.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:16 @ For Shuppim and Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shal'lecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:17 @ On the east there were six each day, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the storehouse;

rsv@1Chronicles:26:18 @ and for the parbar on the west there were four at the road and two at the parbar.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:19 @ These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the Ko'rahites and the sons of Merar'i.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:20 @ And of the Levites, Ahi'jah had charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:21 @ The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehi'eli.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:22 @ The sons of Jehi'eli, Zetham and Jo'el his brother, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:23 @ Of the Am'ramites, the Iz'harites, the He'bronites, and the Uzzie'lites--

rsv@1Chronicles:26:24 @ and Sheb'uel the son of Gershom, son of Moses, was chief officer in charge of the treasuries.

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:26:26 @ This Shelo'moth and his brethren were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' houses, and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had dedicated.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:27 @ From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:28 @ Also all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah had dedicated--all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelo'moth and his brethren.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:29 @ Of the Iz'harites, Chenani'ah and his sons were appointed to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:30 @ Of the He'bronites, Hashabi'ah and his brethren, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the service of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:26:31 @ Of the He'bronites, Jeri'jah was chief of the He'bronites of whatever genealogy or fathers' houses. (In the fortieth year of David's reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.)

rsv@1Chronicles:26:32 @ King David appointed him and his brethren, two thousand seven hundred men of ability, heads of fathers' houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manas'sites for everything pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:1 @ This is the list of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers' houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering twenty-four thousand:

rsv@1Chronicles:27:2 @ Jasho'beam the son of Zab'di-el was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:3 @ He was a descendant of Perez, and was chief of all the commanders of the army for the first month.

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:27:9 @ Sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Teko'ite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:10 @ Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pel'onite, of the sons of E'phraim; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:11 @ Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sib'becai the Hu'shathite, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:12 @ Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abi-e'zer of An'athoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:13 @ Tenth, for the tenth month, was Ma'harai of Netoph'ah, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:14 @ 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:27:15 @ Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netoph'athite, of Oth'ni-el; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:16 @ Over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites Elie'zer the son of Zichri was chief officer; for the Simeonites, Shephati'ah the son of Ma'acah;

rsv@1Chronicles:27:17 @ 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:27:22 @ for Dan, Az'arel the son of Jero'ham. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:23 @ David did not number those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.

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:27:26 @ and over those who did the work of the field for tilling the soil was Ezri the son of Chelub;

rsv@1Chronicles:27:27 @ and over the vineyards was Shim'e-i the Ra'mathite; and over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:28 @ Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephe'lah was Ba'al-ha'nan the Gede'rite; and over the stores of oil was Jo'ash.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:29 @ Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Shar'onite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:30 @ Over the camels was Obil the Ish'maelite; and over the she-asses was Jehde'iah the Meron'othite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:31 @ All these were stewards of King David's property.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:32 @ Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe; he and Jehi'el the son of Hach'moni attended the king's sons.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:33 @ Ahith'ophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.

rsv@1Chronicles: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:28:1 @ David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men, and all the seasoned warriors.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:2 @ Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brethren and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God; and I made preparations for building.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:3 @ But God said to me, `You may not build a house for my name, for you are a warrior and have shed blood.'

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:28:5 @ And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:6 @ He said to me, `It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:7 @ I will establish his kingdom for ever if he continues resolute in keeping my commandments and my ordinances, as he is today.'

rsv@1Chronicles:28:8 @ Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:9 @ "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:10 @ Take heed now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it."

rsv@1Chronicles:28:11 @ Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;

rsv@1Chronicles:28:12 @ and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;

rsv@1Chronicles:28:13 @ for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the LORD; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the LORD,

rsv@1Chronicles:28:14 @ the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service,

rsv@1Chronicles:28:15 @ the weight of the golden lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service,

rsv@1Chronicles:28:16 @ the weight of gold for each table for the showbread, the silver for the silver tables,

rsv@1Chronicles:28:17 @ and pure gold for the forks, the basins, and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each;

rsv@1Chronicles:28:18 @ for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:19 @ All this he made clear by the writing from the hand of the LORD concerning it, all the work to be done according to the plan.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:20 @ Then David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Fear not, be not dismayed; for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.

rsv@1Chronicles:28:21 @ And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command."

rsv@1Chronicles:29:1 @ And David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great; for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:2 @ So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones, and marble.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:3 @ Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:

rsv@1Chronicles:29:4 @ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,

rsv@1Chronicles:29:5 @ and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself today to the LORD?"

rsv@1Chronicles:29:6 @ Then the heads of fathers' houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the king's work.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:7 @ They gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:8 @ And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, in the care of Jehi'el the Gershonite.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:9 @ Then the people rejoiced because these had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the LORD; David the king also rejoiced greatly.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:10 @ Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly; and David said: "Blessed art thou, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:11 @ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:12 @ Both riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all. In thy hand are power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:13 @ And now we thank thee, our God, and praise thy glorious name.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:14 @ "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from thee, and of thy own have we given thee.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:15 @ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:16 @ O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building thee a house for thy holy name comes from thy hand and is all thy own.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:17 @ I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen thy people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to thee.

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@1Chronicles:29:19 @ Grant to Solomon my son that with a whole heart he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision."

rsv@1Chronicles:29:20 @ Then David said to all the assembly, "Bless the LORD your God." And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads, and worshiped the LORD, and did obeisance to the king.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:21 @ And they performed sacrifices to the LORD, and on the next day offered burnt offerings to the LORD, a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel;

rsv@1Chronicles:29:22 @ and they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:23 @ Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father; and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:24 @ All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:25 @ And the LORD gave Solomon great repute in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:26 @ Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:27 @ The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:28 @ Then he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:29 @ Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,

rsv@1Chronicles:29:30 @ with accounts of all his rule and his might and of the circumstances that came upon him and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the countries.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:1 @ Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:2 @ Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:3 @ And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:4 @ (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kir'iath-je'arim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)

rsv@2Chronicles:1:5 @ Moreover the bronze altar that Bez'alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly sought the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:6 @ And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:7 @ In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."

rsv@2Chronicles:1:8 @ And Solomon said to God, "Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:9 @ O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled, for thou hast made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:10 @ Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this thy people, that is so great?"

rsv@2Chronicles:1:11 @ God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may rule my people over whom I have made you king,

rsv@2Chronicles:1:12 @ wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."

rsv@2Chronicles:1:13 @ So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:14 @ Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:15 @ 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:1:16 @ And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Ku'e, and the king's traders received them from Ku'e for a price.

rsv@2Chronicles:1:17 @ They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:1 @ Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal palace for himself.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:2 @ And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to bear burdens and eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:3 @ And Solomon sent word to Huram the king of Tyre: "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:4 @ Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the continual offering of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained for ever for Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:5 @ The house which I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:6 @ But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to burn incense before him?

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:2:8 @ Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,

rsv@2Chronicles:2:9 @ to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:10 @ I will give for your servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil."

rsv@2Chronicles:2:11 @ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in a letter which he sent to Solomon, "Because the LORD loves his people he has made you king over them."

rsv@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Huram also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD, and a royal palace for himself.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:13 @ "Now I have sent a skilled man, endued with understanding, Huram-abi,

rsv@2Chronicles:2:14 @ the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:15 @ Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants;

rsv@2Chronicles:2:16 @ and we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem."

rsv@2Chronicles:2:17 @ Then Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them which David his father had taken; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

rsv@2Chronicles:2:18 @ Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred as overseers to make the people work.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Mori'ah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jeb'usite.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:2 @ He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:3 @ These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:4 @ The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house; and its height was a hundred and twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:5 @ The nave he lined with cypress, and covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:6 @ He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parva'im.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:7 @ So he lined the house with gold--its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:8 @ And he made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:9 @ The weight of the nails was one shekel to fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:10 @ In the most holy place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:11 @ The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;

rsv@2Chronicles:3:12 @ and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:13 @ The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits; the cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:14 @ And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:15 @ In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:16 @ He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

rsv@2Chronicles:3:17 @ He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Bo'az.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:1 @ He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:2 @ Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:3 @ Under it were figures of gourds, for thirty cubits, compassing the sea round about; the gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:4 @ It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:5 @ Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held over three thousand baths.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:6 @ He also made ten lavers in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:7 @ And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:8 @ He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:9 @ He made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze;

rsv@2Chronicles:4:10 @ and he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:11 @ Huram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:

rsv@2Chronicles:4:12 @ the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

rsv@2Chronicles:4:13 @ and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:14 @ He made the stands also, and the lavers upon the stands,

rsv@2Chronicles:4:15 @ and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:16 @ The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.

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:4:18 @ Solomon made all these things in great quantities, so that the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.

rsv@2Chronicles:4:19 @ So Solomon made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,

rsv@2Chronicles:4:20 @ the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;

rsv@2Chronicles:4:21 @ the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;

rsv@2Chronicles:4:22 @ the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the most holy place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:1 @ Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:2 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:3 @ And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast which is in the seventh month.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:4 @ And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:5 @ And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:6 @ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:7 @ So the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:8 @ For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:9 @ And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside; and they are there to this day.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:10 @ There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

rsv@2Chronicles:5:11 @ Now when the priests came out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard to their divisions;

rsv@2Chronicles:5:12 @ and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jedu'thun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with a hundred and twenty priests who were trumpeters;

rsv@2Chronicles:5:13 @ and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever," the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,

rsv@2Chronicles:5:14 @ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:1 @ Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:2 @ I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:6:3 @ Then the king faced about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:4 @ And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:5 @ `Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:6 @ but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

rsv@2Chronicles:6:7 @ Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:8 @ But the LORD said to David my father, `Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:9 @ nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.'

rsv@2Chronicles:6:10 @ Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise which he made; for I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:11 @ And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which he made with the people of Israel."

rsv@2Chronicles:6:12 @ Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:13 @ Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court; and he stood upon it. Then he knelt upon his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:14 @ and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:15 @ who hast kept with thy servant David my father what thou didst declare to him; yea, thou didst speak with thy mouth, and with thy hand hast fulfilled it this day.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:16 @ Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father what thou hast promised him, saying, `There shall never fail you a man before me to sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'

rsv@2Chronicles:6:17 @ Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:18 @ "But will God dwell indeed with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

rsv@2Chronicles:6:19 @ Yet have regard to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, hearkening to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:20 @ that thy eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where thou hast promised to set thy name, that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:21 @ And hearken thou to the supplications of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:22 @ "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and comes and swears his oath before thy altar in this house,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:23 @ then hear thou from heaven, and act, and judge thy servants, requiting the guilty by bringing his conduct upon his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:24 @ "If thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, when they turn again and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:25 @ then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:26 @ "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and acknowledge thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:27 @ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:28 @ "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:29 @ whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing his own affliction, and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:30 @ then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each whose heart thou knowest, according to all his ways (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of the children of men);

rsv@2Chronicles:6:31 @ that they may fear thee and walk in thy ways all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:32 @ "Likewise when a foreigner, who is not of thy people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and thy outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:33 @ hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to thee; in order that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:34 @ "If thy people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to thee toward this city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:35 @ then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:36 @ "If they sin against thee--for there is no man who does not sin--and thou art angry with them, and dost give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near;

rsv@2Chronicles:6:37 @ yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captivity, saying, `We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly';

rsv@2Chronicles:6:38 @ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity, to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name,

rsv@2Chronicles:6:39 @ then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:40 @ Now, O my God, let thy eyes be open and thy ears attentive to a prayer of this place.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:41 @ "And now arise, O LORD God, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might. Let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in thy goodness.

rsv@2Chronicles:6:42 @ O LORD God, do not turn away the face of thy anointed one! Remember thy steadfast love for David thy servant."

rsv@2Chronicles:7:1 @ When Solomon had ended his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:2 @ And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:3 @ When all the children of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD upon the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the earth on the pavement, and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:7:4 @ Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:5 @ King Solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:6 @ The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD--for his steadfast love endures for ever--whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets; and all Israel stood.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:7 @ And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:8 @ At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:9 @ And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:10 @ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:11 @ Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house; all that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:12 @ Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:13 @ When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

rsv@2Chronicles:7:14 @ if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:15 @ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:16 @ For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:17 @ And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

rsv@2Chronicles:7:18 @ then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, `There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel.'

rsv@2Chronicles:7:19 @ "But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

rsv@2Chronicles:7:20 @ then I will pluck you up from the land which I have given you; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

rsv@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And at this house, which is exalted, every one passing by will be astonished, and say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?"

rsv@2Chronicles:7:22 @ Then they will say, `Because they forsook the LORD the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil upon them'"

rsv@2Chronicles:8:1 @ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

rsv@2Chronicles:8:2 @ Solomon rebuilt the cities which Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:3 @ And Solomon went to Ha'math-zo'bah, and took it.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:4 @ He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store-cities which he built in Hamath.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:5 @ He also built Upper Beth-hor'on and Lower Beth-hor'on, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

rsv@2Chronicles:8:6 @ and Ba'alath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:7 @ All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, who were not of Israel,

rsv@2Chronicles:8:8 @ from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed--these Solomon made a forced levy and so they are to this day.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:9 @ But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:10 @ And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred and fifty, who exercised authority over the people.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:11 @ Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy."

rsv@2Chronicles:8:12 @ Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD upon the altar of the LORD which he had built before the vestibule,

rsv@2Chronicles:8:13 @ as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts--the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:14 @ According to the ordinance of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates; for so David the man of God had commanded.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:15 @ And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:16 @ Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:17 @ Then Solomon went to E'zion-ge'ber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:18 @ And Huram sent him by his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon, and fetched from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:1 @ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:2 @ And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from Solomon which he could not explain to her.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:3 @ And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

rsv@2Chronicles:9:4 @ the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:5 @ And she said to the king, "The report was true which I heard in my own land of your affairs and of your wisdom,

rsv@2Chronicles:9:6 @ but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it; and behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report which I heard.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:7 @ Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!

rsv@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them for ever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."

rsv@2Chronicles:9:9 @ Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones: there were no spices such as those which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:10 @ Moreover the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:11 @ And the king made of the algum wood steps for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers; there never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:12 @ And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:13 @ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

rsv@2Chronicles:9:14 @ besides that which the traders and merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:15 @ King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:16 @ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:17 @ The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with pure gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:18 @ The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,

rsv@2Chronicles:9:19 @ while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:20 @ All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:21 @ For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:22 @ Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:23 @ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:24 @ Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:25 @ And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:26 @ And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphra'tes to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:27 @ And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:28 @ And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jerobo'am the son of Nebat?

rsv@2Chronicles:9:30 @ Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

rsv@2Chronicles:9:31 @ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehobo'am his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:1 @ Rehobo'am went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:2 @ And when Jerobo'am the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from King Solomon), then Jerobo'am returned from Egypt.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:3 @ And they sent and called him; and Jerobo'am and all Israel came and said to Rehobo'am,

rsv@2Chronicles:10:4 @ "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke upon us, and we will serve you."

rsv@2Chronicles:10:5 @ He said to them, "Come to me again in three days." So the people went away.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:6 @ Then King Rehobo'am took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?"

rsv@2Chronicles:10:7 @ And they said to him, "If you will be kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:10:8 @ But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:9 @ And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, `Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us'?"

rsv@2Chronicles:10:10 @ And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, `Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us'; thus shall you say to them, `My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:11 @ And now, whereas my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:10:12 @ So Jerobo'am and all the people came to Rehobo'am the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day."

rsv@2Chronicles:10:13 @ And the king answered them harshly, and forsaking the counsel of the old men,

rsv@2Chronicles:10:14 @ King Rehobo'am spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."

rsv@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfil his word, which he spoke by Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite to Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:16 @ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:17 @ But Rehobo'am reigned over the people of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:18 @ Then King Rehobo'am sent Hador'am, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehobo'am made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:19 @ So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

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:11:4 @ `Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your brethren. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they hearkened to the word of the LORD, and returned and did not go against Jerobo'am.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:5 @ Rehobo'am dwelt in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:6 @ He built Bethlehem, Etam, Teko'a,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:7 @ Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

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:11:11 @ He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.

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:11:13 @ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him from all places where they lived.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:14 @ For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jerobo'am and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,

rsv@2Chronicles:11:15 @ and he appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, and for the calves which he had made.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:16 @ And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:17 @ 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:11:18 @ Rehobo'am took as wife Ma'halath the daughter of Jer'imoth the son of David, and of Ab'ihail the daughter of Eli'ab the son of Jesse;

rsv@2Chronicles:11:19 @ 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:12:1 @ When the rule of Rehobo'am was established and was strong, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:2 @ In the fifth year of King Rehobo'am, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

rsv@2Chronicles:12:3 @ with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt--Libyans, Suk'ki-im, and Ethiopians.

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:12:6 @ Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous."

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:12:8 @ Nevertheless they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."

rsv@2Chronicles:12:9 @ So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house; he took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made;

rsv@2Chronicles:12:10 @ and King Rehobo'am made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:11 @ And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and bore them, and brought them back to the guardroom.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:12 @ And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction; moreover, conditions were good in Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:13 @ So King Rehobo'am established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehobo'am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonitess.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:14 @ And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

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:13:5 @ Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel for ever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

rsv@2Chronicles:13:6 @ Yet Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord;

rsv@2Chronicles:13:7 @ and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehobo'am the son of Solomon, when Rehobo'am was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:8 @ "And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jerobo'am made you for gods.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:9 @ Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:10 @ But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:11 @ They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening; for we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.

rsv@2Chronicles:13:12 @ Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers; for you cannot succeed."

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:14:2 @ And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:3 @ He took away the foreign altars and the high places, and broke down the pillars and hewed down the Ashe'rim,

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:14:11 @ And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like thee to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee."

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:14:14 @ And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

rsv@2Chronicles:14:15 @ And they smote the tents of those who had cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:1 @ 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:15:3 @ For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;

rsv@2Chronicles:15:4 @ but when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:5 @ In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:6 @ They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:7 @ But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."

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:15:10 @ They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:11 @ They sacrificed to the LORD on that day, from the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:12 @ And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

rsv@2Chronicles:15:13 @ and that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:14 @ They took oath to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns.

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:15:17 @ But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was blameless all his days.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:18 @ And he brought into the house of God the votive gifts of his father and his own votive gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.

rsv@2Chronicles:15:19 @ And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

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:16:2 @ Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king's house, and sent them to Ben-ha'dad king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:16:3 @ "Let there be a league between me and you, as between my father and your father; behold, I am sending to you silver and gold; go, break your league with Ba'asha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me."

rsv@2Chronicles:16:4 @ And Ben-ha'dad hearkened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered I'jon, Dan, A'bel-ma'im, and all the store-cities of Naph'tali.

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:16:8 @ Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with exceedingly many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:9 @ For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show his might in behalf of those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars."

rsv@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:11 @ The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:12 @ In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe; yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:13 @ And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.

rsv@2Chronicles:16:14 @ They buried him in the tomb which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier which had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great fire in his honor.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:1 @ Jehosh'aphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against 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:17:3 @ The LORD was with Jehosh'aphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Ba'als,

rsv@2Chronicles:17:4 @ but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the ways of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:5 @ Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought tribute to Jehosh'aphat; and he had great riches and honor.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:6 @ 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:17:11 @ Some of the Philistines brought Jehosh'aphat presents, and silver for tribute; and the Arabs also brought him seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred he-goats.

rsv@2Chronicles:17:12 @ And Jehosh'aphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store-cities,

rsv@2Chronicles:17:13 @ 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:17:15 @ and next to him Jehoha'nan the commander, with two hundred and eighty thousand,

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:17:17 @ Of Benjamin: Eli'ada, a mighty man of valor, with two hundred thousand men armed with bow and shield,

rsv@2Chronicles:17:18 @ and next to him Jeho'zabad with a hundred and eighty thousand armed for war.

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:18:4 @ And Jehosh'aphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:5 @ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear?" And they said, "Go up; for God will give it into the hand of the king."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:6 @ But Jehosh'aphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?"

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:18:11 @ And all the prophets prophesied so, and said, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."

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:18:15 @ But the king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:16 @ And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said, `These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:17 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:18 @ 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:18:20 @ Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, `I will entice him.' And the LORD said to him, `By what means?'

rsv@2Chronicles:18:21 @ And he said, `I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, `You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.'

rsv@2Chronicles:18:22 @ Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; the LORD has spoken evil concerning you."

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:18:26 @ and say, `Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I return in peace.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:18:27 @ 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:18:29 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehosh'aphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into battle.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:30 @ Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, "Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:31 @ And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehosh'aphat, they said, "It is the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him; and Jehosh'aphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him,

rsv@2Chronicles:18:32 @ for when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:33 @ But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

rsv@2Chronicles:18:34 @ And the battle grew hot that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening; then at sunset he died.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:1 @ Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:2 @ But Jehu the son of Hana'ni the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehosh'aphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:3 @ 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:19:4 @ Jehosh'aphat dwelt at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill country of E'phraim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:5 @ He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

rsv@2Chronicles:19:6 @ and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD; he is with you in giving judgment.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:7 @ Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the LORD our God, or partiality, or taking bribes."

rsv@2Chronicles:19:8 @ Moreover in Jerusalem Jehosh'aphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:9 @ And he charged them: "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:

rsv@2Chronicles:19:10 @ whenever a case comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brethren. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:11 @ And behold, Amari'ah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadi'ah the son of Ish'mael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters; and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright!"

rsv@2Chronicles:20:1 @ After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Me-u'nites, came against Jehosh'aphat for battle.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:2 @ Some men came and told Jehosh'aphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Haz'azon-ta'mar" (that is, En-ge'di).

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:20:6 @ and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, art thou not God in heaven? Dost thou not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? In thy hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee.

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:20:8 @ And they have dwelt in it, and have built thee in it a sanctuary for thy name, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:20:9 @ `If evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee, for thy name is in this house, and cry to thee in our affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.'

rsv@2Chronicles:20:10 @ And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Se'ir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy--

rsv@2Chronicles:20:11 @ behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:12 @ O our God, wilt thou not execute judgment upon them? For we are powerless against this great multitude that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon thee."

rsv@2Chronicles:20:13 @ 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:20:16 @ Tomorrow go down against them; behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz; you will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeru'el.

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:20:21 @ And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy array, as they went before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:20:22 @ And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Se'ir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:23 @ For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Se'ir, destroying them utterly, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Se'ir, they all helped to destroy one another.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:24 @ 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:20:25 @ When Jehosh'aphat and his people came to take the spoil from them, they found cattle in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.

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:20:28 @ They came to Jerusalem, with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:29 @ And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:30 @ So the realm of Jehosh'aphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest round about.

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:20:32 @ He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it; he did what was right in the sight of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:33 @ The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:34 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehosh'aphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hana'ni, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:35 @ After this Jehosh'aphat king of Judah joined with Ahazi'ah king of Israel, who did wickedly.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:36 @ He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshish, and they built the ships in E'zion-ge'ber.

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:21:1 @ Jehosh'aphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Jeho'ram his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:2 @ 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:21:4 @ When Jeho'ram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he slew all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:5 @ Jeho'ram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

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:21:7 @ Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant which he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons for ever.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:8 @ In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah, and set up a king of their own.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:9 @ Then Jeho'ram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and smote the E'domites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:10 @ So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:11 @ 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:21:14 @ behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

rsv@2Chronicles:21:15 @ and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:21:16 @ And the LORD stirred up against Jeho'ram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabs who are near the Ethiopians;

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:21:18 @ And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:19 @ In course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:20 @ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem; and he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:1 @ And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahazi'ah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah reigned.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahazi'ah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athali'ah, the granddaughter of Omri.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:3 @ 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:23:3 @ And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoi'ada said to them, "Behold, the king's son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:4 @ This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,

rsv@2Chronicles:23:5 @ and one third shall be at the king's house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:6 @ Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:7 @ The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever enters the house shall be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out."

rsv@2Chronicles:23:8 @ The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoi'ada the priest commanded. They each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the sabbath; for Jehoi'ada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:9 @ And Jehoi'ada the priest delivered to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of God;

rsv@2Chronicles:23:10 @ and he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:11 @ Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they proclaimed him king, and Jehoi'ada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."

rsv@2Chronicles:23:12 @ 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:23:14 @ Then Jehoi'ada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; any one who follows her is to be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Do not slay her in the house of the LORD."

rsv@2Chronicles:23:15 @ So they laid hands on her; and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king's house, and they slew her there.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:16 @ And Jehoi'ada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD's people.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:17 @ Then all the people went to the house of Ba'al, and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they slew Mattan the priest of Ba'al before the altars.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:18 @ And Jehoi'ada posted watchmen for the house of the LORD under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:19 @ He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:20 @ And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land; and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the upper gate to the king's house. And they set the king upon the royal throne.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:21 @ So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, after Athali'ah had been slain with the sword.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:1 @ 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:24:2 @ And Jo'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoi'ada the priest.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:3 @ Jehoi'ada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:4 @ After this Jo'ash decided to restore the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:5 @ And he gathered the priests and the Levites, and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you hasten the matter." But the Levites did not hasten it.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:6 @ So the king summoned Jehoi'ada the chief, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"

rsv@2Chronicles:24:7 @ For the sons of Athali'ah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God; and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Ba'als.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:8 @ So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:9 @ 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:24:10 @ And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:11 @ And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:12 @ And the king and Jehoi'ada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:13 @ So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:14 @ And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoi'ada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoi'ada.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:15 @ But Jehoi'ada grew old and full of days, and died; he was a hundred and thirty years old at his death.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:16 @ And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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:24:19 @ Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD; these testified against them, but they would not give heed.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:20 @ 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:24:21 @ But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.

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:24:24 @ Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Jo'ash.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:25 @ When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoi'ada the priest, and slew him on his bed. So he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:26 @ Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shim'e-ath the Ammonitess, and Jeho'zabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

rsv@2Chronicles:24:27 @ Accounts of his sons, and of the many oracles against him, and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Commentary on the Book of the Kings. And Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:1 @ 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:25:2 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a blameless heart.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:3 @ And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:4 @ But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

rsv@2Chronicles:25:5 @ Then Amazi'ah assembled the men of Judah, and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:6 @ He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:7 @ But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these E'phraimites.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:8 @ But if you suppose that in this way you will be strong for war, God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to cast down."

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:25:16 @ But as he was speaking the king said to him, "Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?" So the prophet stopped, but said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel."

rsv@2Chronicles:25:17 @ 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:25:24 @ And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, and O'bed-e'dom with them; he seized also the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages, and he returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:25 @ Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jo'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, king of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:26 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

rsv@2Chronicles:25:27 @ From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:28 @ And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.

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:26:6 @ He went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:7 @ God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs that dwelt in Gurba'al, and against the Me-u'nites.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:8 @ The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzzi'ah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:9 @ Moreover Uzzi'ah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:10 @ And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephe'lah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:11 @ Moreover Uzzi'ah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Je-i'el the secretary and Ma-asei'ah the officer, under the direction of Hanani'ah, one of the king's commanders.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:12 @ The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses of mighty men of valor was two thousand six hundred.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:13 @ Under their command was an army of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

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:26:15 @ In Jerusalem he made engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:16 @ But when he was strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:17 @ But Azari'ah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the LORD who were men of valor;

rsv@2Chronicles:26:18 @ and they withstood King Uzzi'ah, and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzzi'ah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God."

rsv@2Chronicles:26:19 @ 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:27:3 @ He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did much building on the wall of Ophel.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:4 @ Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:5 @ He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:6 @ So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:7 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:8 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:9 @ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:1 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, like his father David,

rsv@2Chronicles:28:2 @ but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made molten images for the Ba'als;

rsv@2Chronicles:28:3 @ and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:4 @ And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:5 @ Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:6 @ 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:28:8 @ The men of Israel took captive two hundred thousand of their kinsfolk, women, sons, and daughters; they also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:9 @ 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:28:11 @ Now hear me, and send back the captives from your kinsfolk whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you."

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:28:13 @ and said to them, "You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel."

rsv@2Chronicles:28:14 @ So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:15 @ And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:16 @ 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:28:20 @ So Til'gath-pilne'ser king of Assyria came against him, and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:21 @ For Ahaz took from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria; but it did not help him.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:22 @ In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:23 @ For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, and said, "Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:24 @ 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:29:2 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:3 @ In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:4 @ He brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the square on the east,

rsv@2Chronicles:29:5 @ and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:6 @ For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God; they have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:7 @ They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

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:29:9 @ For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:10 @ Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:11 @ My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, and to be his ministers and burn incense to him."

rsv@2Chronicles:29:12 @ Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Ama'sai, and Jo'el the son of Azari'ah, of the sons of the Ko'hathites; and of the sons of Merar'i, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azari'ah the son of Jehal'lelel; and of the Gershonites, Jo'ah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Jo'ah;

rsv@2Chronicles:29:13 @ 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:29:15 @ They gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:16 @ The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD; and the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:17 @ They began to sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD; then for eight days they sanctified the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:18 @ Then they went in to Hezeki'ah the king and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:19 @ All the utensils which King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD."

rsv@2Chronicles:29:20 @ 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:29:22 @ So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar; and they killed the rams and their blood was thrown against the altar; and they killed the lambs and their blood was thrown against the altar.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:23 @ Then the he-goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands upon them,

rsv@2Chronicles:29:24 @ and the priests killed them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:25 @ And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:26 @ The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:27 @ 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:29:28 @ The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:29 @ When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.

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:29:32 @ The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:33 @ And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:34 @ But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had sanctified themselves their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished--for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in sanctifying themselves.

rsv@2Chronicles:29:35 @ Besides the great number of burnt offerings there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the libations for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the LORD was restored.

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:30:2 @ For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the passover in the second month--

rsv@2Chronicles:30:3 @ for they could not keep it in its time because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem--

rsv@2Chronicles:30:4 @ and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:5 @ So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the passover to the LORD the God of Israel, at Jerusalem; for they had not kept it in great numbers as prescribed.

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:30:7 @ Do not be like your fathers and your brethren, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:8 @ Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:9 @ For if you return to the LORD, your brethren and your children will find compassion with their captors, and return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him."

rsv@2Chronicles:30:10 @ So the couriers went from city to city through the country of E'phraim and Manas'seh, and as far as Zeb'ulun; but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:11 @ Only a few men of Asher, of Manas'seh, and of Zeb'ulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

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:30:13 @ And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:14 @ They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron valley.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:15 @ And they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were put to shame, so that they sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:16 @ They took their accustomed posts according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:17 @ For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had to kill the passover lamb for every one who was not clean, to make it holy to the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:18 @ For a multitude of the people, many of them from E'phraim, Manas'seh, Is'sachar, and Zeb'ulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezeki'ah had prayed for them, saying, "The good LORD pardon every one

rsv@2Chronicles:30:19 @ who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness."

rsv@2Chronicles:30:20 @ And the LORD heard Hezeki'ah, and healed the people.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:21 @ And the people of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with all their might to the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:22 @ And Hezeki'ah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So the people ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:23 @ Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days; so they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:24 @ For Hezeki'ah king of Judah gave the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:25 @ The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:26 @ So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:30:27 @ Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:1 @ 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:31:3 @ The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:4 @ And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:5 @ As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

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:31:7 @ In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

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:31:16 @ except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upwards, all who entered the house of the LORD as the duty of each day required, for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:17 @ The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upwards was according to their offices, by their divisions.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:18 @ The priests were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole multitude; for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:19 @ And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to every one among the Levites who was enrolled.

rsv@2Chronicles: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:31:21 @ And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:1 @ After these things and these acts of faithfulness Sennach'erib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:2 @ And when Hezeki'ah saw that Sennach'erib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,

rsv@2Chronicles:32:3 @ he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:4 @ A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?"

rsv@2Chronicles:32:5 @ He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall; and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:6 @ And he set combat commanders over the people, and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:32:7 @ "Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him; for there is one greater with us than with him.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:8 @ 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:32:10 @ "Thus says Sennach'erib king of Assyria, `On what are you relying, that you stand siege in Jerusalem?

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:32:13 @ Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:14 @ Who among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:15 @ 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:32:19 @ And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

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:32:21 @ And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.

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:32:28 @ storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:29 @ He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very great possessions.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:30 @ This same Hezeki'ah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezeki'ah prospered in all his works.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:31 @ And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to try him and to know all that was in his heart.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:32 @ Now the rest of the acts of Hezeki'ah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:33 @ And Hezeki'ah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manas'seh his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:1 @ Manas'seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:2 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

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:33:4 @ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever."

rsv@2Chronicles:33:5 @ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:6 @ And he burned his sons as an offering in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:7 @ And the image of the idol which he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;

rsv@2Chronicles:33:8 @ and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses."

rsv@2Chronicles:33:9 @ 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:33:10 @ The LORD spoke to Manas'seh and to his people, but they gave no heed.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:11 @ Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manas'seh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:12 @ And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:13 @ He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manas'seh knew that the LORD was God.

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:33:15 @ And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

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:33:17 @ Nevertheless the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manas'seh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:19 @ And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Ashe'rim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:20 @ So Manas'seh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:21 @ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:22 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manas'seh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manas'seh his father had made, and served them.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:23 @ And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manas'seh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.

rsv@2Chronicles:33:24 @ And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his house.

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:34:2 @ He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:3 @ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Ashe'rim, and the graven and the molten images.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:4 @ And they broke down the altars of the Ba'als in his presence; and he hewed down the incense altars which stood above them; and he broke in pieces the Ashe'rim and the graven and the molten images, and he made dust of them and strewed it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:5 @ He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:6 @ And in the cities of Manas'seh, E'phraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naph'tali, in their ruins round about,

rsv@2Chronicles:34:7 @ he broke down the altars, and beat the Ashe'rim and the images into powder, and hewed down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to 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:34:10 @ They delivered it to the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD gave it for repairing and restoring the house.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:11 @ They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:12 @ And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadi'ah the Levites, of the sons of Merar'i, and Zechari'ah and Meshul'lam, of the sons of the Ko'hathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skilful with instruments of music,

rsv@2Chronicles:34:13 @ were over the burden bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service; and some of the Levites were scribes, and officials, and gatekeepers.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:14 @ 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:34:16 @ Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, "All that was committed to your servants they are doing.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:17 @ They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen."

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:34:19 @ When the king heard the words of the law he rent his clothes.

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:34:23 @ And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: `Tell the man who sent you to me,

rsv@2Chronicles:34:24 @ Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which was read before the king of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:25 @ Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.

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:34:27 @ because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me, and have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:28 @ Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.'" And they brought back word to the king.

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:34:31 @ And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:32 @ Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:34:33 @ And Josi'ah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel, and made all who were in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:1 @ Josi'ah kept a passover to the LORD in Jerusalem; and they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:2 @ He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:3 @ And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built; you need no longer carry it upon your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:4 @ Prepare yourselves according to your fathers' houses by your divisions, following the directions of David king of Israel and the directions of Solomon his son.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:5 @ And stand in the holy place according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of your brethren the lay people, and let there be for each a part of a father's house of the Levites.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:6 @ And kill the passover lamb, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses."

rsv@2Chronicles:35:7 @ Then Josi'ah contributed to the lay people, as passover offerings for all that were present, lambs and kids from the flock to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls; these were from the king's possessions.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:8 @ And his princes contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilki'ah, Zechari'ah, and Jehi'el, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the passover offerings two thousand six hundred lambs and kids and three hundred bulls.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:9 @ Conani'ah also, and Shemai'ah and Nethan'el his brothers, and Hashabi'ah and Je-i'el and Jo'zabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the passover offerings five thousand lambs and kids and five hundred bulls.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:10 @ When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:11 @ And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from them while the Levites flayed the victims.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:12 @ And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:13 @ And they roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the ordinance; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:14 @ And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:15 @ The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jedu'thun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not need to depart from their service, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:16 @ 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:35:17 @ And the people of Israel who were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

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:36:3 @ Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid upon the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:4 @ 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:36:5 @ Jehoi'akim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:6 @ Against him came up Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:7 @ Nebuchadnez'zar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:8 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoi'akim, and the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoi'achin his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:9 @ Jehoi'achin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:10 @ 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:36:13 @ He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnez'zar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:14 @ All the leading priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:15 @ The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;

rsv@2Chronicles:36:16 @ but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, till there was no remedy.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:17 @ Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chalde'ans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged; he gave them all into his hand.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:18 @ And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:19 @ And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:20 @ He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,

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:1:4 @ and let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem."

rsv@Ezra:1:5 @ Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, every one whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem;

rsv@Ezra:1:6 @ and all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.

rsv@Ezra:1:7 @ Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD which Nebuchadnez'zar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.

rsv@Ezra:1:8 @ Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in charge of Mith'redath the treasurer, who counted them out to Shesh-baz'zar the prince of Judah.

rsv@Ezra:1:10 @ thirty bowls of gold, two thousand four hundred and ten bowls of silver, and a thousand other vessels;

rsv@Ezra:1:11 @ all the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine. All these did Shesh-baz'zar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.

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:2:6 @ The sons of Pa'hath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Jo'ab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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:2:49 @ the sons of Uzza, the sons of Pase'ah, the sons of Besai,

rsv@Ezra:2:59 @ The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers' houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

rsv@Ezra:2:61 @ Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habai'ah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzil'lai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzil'lai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).

rsv@Ezra:2:62 @ These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean;

rsv@Ezra:2:63 @ the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.

rsv@Ezra:2:65 @ besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.

rsv@Ezra:2:66 @ Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules were two hundred and forty-five,

rsv@Ezra:2:67 @ their camels were four hundred and thirty-five, and their asses were six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

rsv@Ezra:2:68 @ Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site;

rsv@Ezra:2:69 @ according to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.

rsv@Ezra:2:70 @ The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem and its vicinity; and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all Israel in their towns.

rsv@Ezra:3:2 @ Then arose Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

rsv@Ezra:3:3 @ They set the altar in its place, for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings upon it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.

rsv@Ezra:3:7 @ So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sido'nians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

rsv@Ezra:3:8 @ Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el and Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their brethren, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of the LORD.

rsv@Ezra:3:9 @ And Jeshua with his sons and his kinsmen, and Kad'mi-el and his sons, the sons of Judah, together took the oversight of the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Hen'adad and the Levites, their sons and kinsmen.

rsv@Ezra:3:10 @ And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel;

rsv@Ezra:3:11 @ and they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

rsv@Ezra:3:12 @ But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy;

rsv@Ezra: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:4:2 @ they approached Zerub'babel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you; for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of E'sar-had'don king of Assyria who brought us here."

rsv@Ezra:4:3 @ But Zerub'babel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, "You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us."

rsv@Ezra:4:7 @ And in the days of Ar-ta-xerx'es, Bishlam and Mith'redath and Tab'eel and the rest of their associates wrote to Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Persia; the letter was written in Aramaic and translated.

rsv@Ezra:4:8 @ Rehum the commander and Shim'shai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Ar-ta-xerx'es the king as follows--

rsv@Ezra:4:9 @ then wrote Rehum the commander, Shim'shai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

rsv@Ezra:4:10 @ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnap'par deported and settled in the cities of Sama'ria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, and now

rsv@Ezra:4:11 @ this is a copy of the letter that they sent-- "To Ar-ta-xerx'es the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now

rsv@Ezra:4:14 @ Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,

rsv@Ezra:4:15 @ in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

rsv@Ezra:4:16 @ We make known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River."

rsv@Ezra:4:17 @ The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shim'shai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Sama'ria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now

rsv@Ezra:4:21 @ Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.

rsv@Ezra:4:23 @ Then, when the copy of King Ar-ta-xerx'es' letter was read before Rehum and Shim'shai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

rsv@Ezra:5:1 @ 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:5:2 @ Then Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el and Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

rsv@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time Tat'tenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and She'thar-boz'enai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?"

rsv@Ezra:5:4 @ They also asked them this, "What are the names of the men who are building this building?"

rsv@Ezra:5:6 @ The copy of the letter which Tat'tenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and She'thar-boz'enai and his associates the governors who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king;

rsv@Ezra:5:8 @ 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:5:10 @ We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of the men at their head.

rsv@Ezra:5:12 @ But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, the Chalde'an, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.

rsv@Ezra:5:14 @ And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnez'zar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Shesh-baz'zar, whom he had made governor;

rsv@Ezra:5:15 @ and he said to him, "Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple which is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site."

rsv@Ezra:5:16 @ Then this Shesh-baz'zar came and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.'

rsv@Ezra:5:17 @ Therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter."

rsv@Ezra:6:1 @ Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.

rsv@Ezra:6:3 @ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt offerings are brought; its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,

rsv@Ezra:6:4 @ with three courses of great stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.

rsv@Ezra:6:5 @ And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnez'zar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; you shall put them in the house of God."

rsv@Ezra:6:6 @ "Now therefore, Tat'tenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, She'thar-boz'enai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away;

rsv@Ezra:6:8 @ Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God; the cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.

rsv@Ezra:6:9 @ And whatever is needed-- young bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require-- let that be given to them day by day without fail,

rsv@Ezra:6:10 @ that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

rsv@Ezra:6:12 @ May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people that shall put forth a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence."

rsv@Ezra:6:13 @ Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tat'tenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, She'thar-boz'enai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.

rsv@Ezra:6:14 @ 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:6:16 @ And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

rsv@Ezra:6:17 @ They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

rsv@Ezra:6:18 @ And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

rsv@Ezra:6:19 @ On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles kept the passover.

rsv@Ezra:6:20 @ For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they killed the passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves;

rsv@Ezra:6:21 @ it was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the pollutions of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@Ezra:7:1 @ Now after this, in the reign of Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Persia, Ezra the son of Serai'ah, son of Azari'ah, son of Hilki'ah,

rsv@Ezra:7:5 @ son of Abi'shu-a, son of Phin'ehas, son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron the chief priest--

rsv@Ezra:7:6 @ this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses which the LORD the God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

rsv@Ezra:7:7 @ And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

rsv@Ezra:7:10 @ For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach his statutes and ordinances in Israel.

rsv@Ezra:7:11 @ This is a copy of the letter which King Ar-ta-xerx'es gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel:

rsv@Ezra:7:12 @ "Ar-ta-xerx'es, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven. And now

rsv@Ezra:7:13 @ I make a decree that any one of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.

rsv@Ezra:7:14 @ 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:7:16 @ with all the silver and gold which you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezra:7:18 @ Whatever seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.

rsv@Ezra:7:19 @ The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezra:7:21 @ "And I, Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, be it done with all diligence,

rsv@Ezra:7:22 @ up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

rsv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.

rsv@Ezra:7:24 @ We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll upon any one of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

rsv@Ezra:7:25 @ "And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and those who do not know them, you shall teach.

rsv@Ezra:7:27 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem,

rsv@Ezra:8:1 @ These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Ar-ta-xerx'es the king:

rsv@Ezra:8:7 @ Of the sons of Elam, Jeshai'ah the son of Athali'ah, and with him seventy 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:8:19 @ also Hashabi'ah and with him Jeshai'ah of the sons of Merar'i, with his kinsmen and their sons, twenty;

rsv@Ezra:8:20 @ besides two hundred and twenty of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.

rsv@Ezra:8:21 @ 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:8:23 @ So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

rsv@Ezra:8:24 @ Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebi'ah, Hashabi'ah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.

rsv@Ezra:8:25 @ And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered;

rsv@Ezra:8:26 @ I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels worth a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,

rsv@Ezra:8:27 @ twenty bowls of gold worth a thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold.

rsv@Ezra:8:28 @ And I said to them, "You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.

rsv@Ezra:8:29 @ Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD."

rsv@Ezra:8:30 @ So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

rsv@Ezra:8:31 @ Then we departed from the river Aha'va on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.

rsv@Ezra:8:33 @ On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Mer'emoth the priest, son of Uri'ah, and with him was Elea'zar the son of Phin'ehas, and with them were the Levites, Jo'zabad the son of Jeshua and No-adi'ah the son of Bin'nui.

rsv@Ezra:8:35 @ At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve he-goats; all this was a burnt offering to the LORD.

rsv@Ezra:9:1 @ After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Jeb'usites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

rsv@Ezra:9:2 @ For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons; so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost."

rsv@Ezra:9:4 @ Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered round me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.

rsv@Ezra:9:5 @ And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle rent, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

rsv@Ezra:9:6 @ saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

rsv@Ezra:9:7 @ From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as at this day.

rsv@Ezra:9:8 @ But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant, and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

rsv@Ezra:9:11 @ which thou didst command by thy servants the prophets, saying, `The land which you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.

rsv@Ezra:9:13 @ And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that thou, our God, hast punished us less than our iniquities deserved and hast given us such a remnant as this,

rsv@Ezra:9:14 @ shall we break thy commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou wouldst consume us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

rsv@Ezra:9:15 @ O LORD the God of Israel, thou art just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as at this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guilt, for none can stand before thee because of this."

rsv@Ezra:10:1 @ While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

rsv@Ezra:10:2 @ And Shecani'ah the son of Jehi'el, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

rsv@Ezra:10:3 @ Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

rsv@Ezra:10:5 @ Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

rsv@Ezra:10:6 @ Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God, and went to the chamber of Jehoha'nan the son of Eli'ashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water; for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

rsv@Ezra:10:7 @ And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,

rsv@Ezra:10:8 @ and that if any one did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

rsv@Ezra:10:10 @ And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have trespassed and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.

rsv@Ezra:10:11 @ Now then make confession to the LORD the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."

rsv@Ezra:10:13 @ But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a work for one day or for two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

rsv@Ezra:10:14 @ Let our officials stand for the whole assembly; let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, till the fierce wrath of our God over this matter be averted from us."

rsv@Ezra:10:15 @ Only Jonathan the son of As'ahel and Jahzei'ah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshul'lum and Shab'bethai the Levite supported them.

rsv@Ezra:10:16 @ Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;

rsv@Ezra:10:18 @ 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:10:19 @ They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

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:10:29 @ Of the sons of Bani were Meshul'lum, Malluch, Adai'ah, Jashub, She'al, and Jer'emoth.

rsv@Ezra:10:44 @ All these had married foreign women, and they put them away with their children.

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:1:6 @ 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:1:11 @ 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:2:13 @ 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:2:16 @ 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:2:19 @ But when Sanbal'lat the Hor'onite and Tobi'ah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

rsv@Nehemiah:3:1 @ Then Eli'ashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hanan'el.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:4 @ 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:3:8 @ 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:3:12 @ Next to him Shallum the son of Hallo'hesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:16 @ 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:3:19 @ 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:3:22 @ 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:3:27 @ 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:3:30 @ 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: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:4:7 @ 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:4:11 @ 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:4:18 @ 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:4:23 @ 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:5:3 @ 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:5:5 @ 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:5:9 @ 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:5:17 @ 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: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:6:6 @ 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:6:14 @ Remember Tobi'ah and Sanbal'lat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess No-adi'ah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:16 @ And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations round about us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem; for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:17 @ Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobi'ah, and Tobi'ah's letters came to them.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:18 @ For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecani'ah the son of Arah: and his son Jehoha'nan had taken the daughter of Meshul'lam the son of Berechi'ah as his wife.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:19 @ Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence, and reported my words to him. And Tobi'ah sent letters to make me afraid.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:1 @ Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:3 @ And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each to his station and each opposite his own house."

rsv@Nehemiah:7:4 @ 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:7:11 @ The sons of Pa'hath-mo'ab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Jo'ab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:39 @ The priests: the sons of Jedai'ah, namely the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.

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:7:52 @ the sons of Besai, the sons of Me-u'nim, the sons of Nephush'esim,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:61 @ The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

rsv@Nehemiah:7:63 @ Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobai'ah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzil'lai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzil'lai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

rsv@Nehemiah:7:64 @ 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:7:67 @ 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:8:6 @ 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:8:9 @ And Nehemi'ah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:11 @ So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, "Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved."

rsv@Nehemiah:8:13 @ On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:14 @ And they found it written in the law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,

rsv@Nehemiah:8:15 @ and that they should publish and proclaim in all their towns and in Jerusalem, "Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written."

rsv@Nehemiah:8:16 @ So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of E'phraim.

rsv@Nehemiah: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: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:9:8 @ and thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make with him the covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Per'izzite, the Jeb'usite, and the Gir'gashite; and thou hast fulfilled thy promise, for thou art righteous.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:10 @ and didst perform signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for thou knewest that they acted insolently against our fathers; and thou didst get thee a name, as it is to this day.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:13 @ 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:9:18 @ 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:9:34 @ 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:10:7 @ 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:10:20 @ Mag'piash, Meshul'lam, Hezir,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:21 @ Meshez'abel, Zadok, Jad'du-a,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:24 @ Hallo'hesh, Pi'lha, Shobek,

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:10:34 @ 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:11:7 @ 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:11:10 @ 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:11:13 @ 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:11:15 @ And of the Levites: Shemai'ah the son of Hasshub, son of Azri'kam, son of Hashabi'ah, son of Bunni;

rsv@Nehemiah:11:16 @ and Shab'bethai and Jo'zabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;

rsv@Nehemiah:11:18 @ All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:19 @ The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren, who kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:20 @ And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:22 @ The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabi'ah, son of Mattani'ah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:24 @ And Pethahi'ah the son of Meshez'abel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:25 @ 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:11:30 @ 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:11:36 @ 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:12:7 @ 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:12:10 @ And Jeshua was the father of Joi'akim, Joi'akim the father of Eli'ashib, Eli'ashib the father of Joi'ada,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:12 @ 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:12:16 @ of Iddo, Zechari'ah; of Gin'nethon, Meshul'lam;

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:12:35 @ 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:12:40 @ 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:12:43 @ 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:12:47 @ 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:13:9 @ 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:13:12 @ 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:13:15 @ 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:13:19 @ 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:13:22 @ And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of thy steadfast love.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:25 @ And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair; and I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:26 @ 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:13:28 @ 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:1:3 @ in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and servants, the army chiefs of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces being before him,

rsv@Esther:1:4 @ while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his majesty for many days, a hundred and eighty days.

rsv@Esther:1:5 @ And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the capital, both great and small, a banquet lasting for seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

rsv@Esther:1:6 @ There were white cotton curtains and blue hangings caught up with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

rsv@Esther:1:7 @ Drinks were served in golden goblets, goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.

rsv@Esther:1:8 @ And drinking was according to the law, no one was compelled; for the king had given orders to all the officials of his palace to do as every man desired.

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:1:11 @ to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to behold.

rsv@Esther:1:12 @ But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.

rsv@Esther:1:13 @ Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times-- for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,

rsv@Esther:1:14 @ the men next to him being Carshe'na, Shethar, Adma'tha, Tarshish, Meres, Marse'na, and Memu'can, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom--:

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:1:18 @ This very day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will be telling it to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.

rsv@Esther:1:19 @ If it please the king, let a royal order go forth from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be altered, that Vashti is to come no more before King Ahasu-e'rus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.

rsv@Esther:1:20 @ So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low."

rsv@Esther:1:21 @ This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memu'can proposed;

rsv@Esther:1:22 @ he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be lord in his own house and speak according to the language of his people.

rsv@Esther:2:1 @ After these things, when the anger of King Ahasu-e'rus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

rsv@Esther:2:2 @ Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.

rsv@Esther:2:3 @ And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the capital, under custody of Hegai the king's eunuch who is in charge of the women; let their ointments be given them.

rsv@Esther:2:4 @ And let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This pleased the king, and he did so.

rsv@Esther:2:5 @ Now there was a Jew in Susa the capital whose name was Mor'decai, the son of Ja'ir, son of Shim'e-i, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

rsv@Esther:2:6 @ 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:2:8 @ So when the king's order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many maidens were gathered in Susa the capital in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king's palace and put in custody of Hegai who had charge of the women.

rsv@Esther:2:9 @ And the maiden pleased him and won his favor; and he quickly provided her with her ointments and her portion of food, and with seven chosen maids from the king's palace, and advanced her and her maids to the best place in the harem.

rsv@Esther:2:10 @ Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mor'decai had charged her not to make it known.

rsv@Esther:2:11 @ And every day Mor'decai walked in front of the court of the harem, to learn how Esther was and how she fared.

rsv@Esther:2:12 @ Now when the turn came for each maiden to go in to King Ahasu-e'rus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women--

rsv@Esther:2:13 @ when the maiden went in to the king in this way she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.

rsv@Esther:2:14 @ In the evening she went, and in the morning she came back to the second harem in custody of Sha-ash'gaz the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines; she did not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

rsv@Esther:2:15 @ When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Ab'ihail the uncle of Mor'decai, who had adopted her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king's eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

rsv@Esther:2:16 @ And when Esther was taken to King Ahasu-e'rus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,

rsv@Esther:2:17 @ the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

rsv@Esther:2:18 @ Then the king gave a great banquet to all his princes and servants; it was Esther's banquet. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.

rsv@Esther:2:19 @ When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mor'decai was sitting at the king's gate.

rsv@Esther:2:20 @ Now Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mor'decai had charged her; for Esther obeyed Mor'decai just as when she was brought up by him.

rsv@Esther:2:21 @ And in those days, as Mor'decai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasu-e'rus.

rsv@Esther:2:22 @ And this came to the knowledge of Mor'decai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mor'decai.

rsv@Esther:2:23 @ When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.

rsv@Esther:3:1 @ After these things King Ahasu-e'rus promoted Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

rsv@Esther:3:2 @ And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mor'decai did not bow down or do obeisance.

rsv@Esther:3:3 @ Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mor'decai, "Why do you transgress the king's command?"

rsv@Esther:3:4 @ And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mor'decai's words would avail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

rsv@Esther:3:5 @ And when Haman saw that Mor'decai did not bow down or do obeisance to him, Haman was filled with fury.

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:3:9 @ If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries."

rsv@Esther:3:10 @ So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of the Jews.

rsv@Esther:3:11 @ And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you."

rsv@Esther:3:12 @ Then the king's secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king's satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the princes of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasu-e'rus and sealed with the king's ring.

rsv@Esther:3:13 @ Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

rsv@Esther:3:14 @ A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.

rsv@Esther:3:15 @ The couriers went in haste by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the capital. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

rsv@Esther:4:1 @ When Mor'decai learned all that had been done, Mor'decai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

rsv@Esther:4:2 @ he went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

rsv@Esther:4:3 @ And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

rsv@Esther:4:4 @ When Esther's maids and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mor'decai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

rsv@Esther:4:5 @ Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mor'decai to learn what this was and why it was.

rsv@Esther:4:6 @ Hathach went out to Mor'decai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate,

rsv@Esther:4:7 @ and Mor'decai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

rsv@Esther:4:8 @ Mor'decai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and entreat him for her people.

rsv@Esther:4:9 @ And Hathach went and told Esther what Mor'decai had said.

rsv@Esther:4:10 @ Then Esther spoke to Hathach and gave him a message for Mor'decai, saying,

rsv@Esther:4:11 @ "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law; all alike are to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter that he may live. And I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

rsv@Esther:4:12 @ And they told Mor'decai what Esther had said.

rsv@Esther:4:13 @ Then Mor'decai told them to return answer to Esther, "Think not that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.

rsv@Esther:4:14 @ For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

rsv@Esther:4:15 @ Then Esther told them to reply to Mor'decai,

rsv@Esther:4:16 @ "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

rsv@Esther:4:17 @ Mor'decai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.

rsv@Esther:5:1 @ On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, opposite the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne inside the palace opposite the entrance to the palace;

rsv@Esther:5:2 @ and when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter.

rsv@Esther:5:3 @ And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom."

rsv@Esther:5:4 @ And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the king and Haman come this day to a dinner that I have prepared for the king."

rsv@Esther:5:5 @ Then said the king, "Bring Haman quickly, that we may do as Esther desires." So the king and Haman came to the dinner that Esther had prepared.

rsv@Esther:5:6 @ And as they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."

rsv@Esther:5:7 @ But Esther said, "My petition and my request is:

rsv@Esther:5:8 @ If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and fulfil my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the dinner which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said."

rsv@Esther:5:9 @ And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mor'decai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mor'decai.

rsv@Esther:5:10 @ Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and his wife Zeresh.

rsv@Esther:5:11 @ And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.

rsv@Esther:5:12 @ And Haman added, "Even Queen Esther let no one come with the king to the banquet she prepared but myself. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.

rsv@Esther:5:13 @ Yet all this does me no good, so long as I see Mor'decai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

rsv@Esther:5:14 @ Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mor'decai hanged upon it; then go merrily with the king to the dinner." This counsel pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

rsv@Esther:6:1 @ On that night the king could not sleep; and he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

rsv@Esther:6:2 @ And it was found written how Mor'decai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands upon King Ahasu-e'rus.

rsv@Esther:6:3 @ And the king said, "What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mor'decai for this?" The king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

rsv@Esther:6:4 @ And the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mor'decai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

rsv@Esther:6:5 @ So the king's servants told him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."

rsv@Esther:6:6 @ So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?"

rsv@Esther:6:7 @ and Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

rsv@Esther:6:8 @ let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set;

rsv@Esther:6:9 @ and let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble princes; let him array the man whom the king delights to honor, and let him conduct the man on horseback through the open square of the city, proclaiming before him: `Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'"

rsv@Esther:6:10 @ Then the king said to Haman, "Make haste, take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mor'decai the Jew who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned."

rsv@Esther:6:11 @ So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he arrayed Mor'decai and made him ride through the open square of the city, proclaiming, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."

rsv@Esther:6:12 @ Then Mor'decai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

rsv@Esther:6:13 @ And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mor'decai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him."

rsv@Esther:6:14 @ While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and brought Haman in haste to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

rsv@Esther:7:1 @ So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.

rsv@Esther:7:2 @ And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."

rsv@Esther:7:3 @ Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

rsv@Esther:7:4 @ For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."

rsv@Esther:7:5 @ Then King Ahasu-e'rus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?"

rsv@Esther:7:6 @ And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen.

rsv@Esther:7:7 @ And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

rsv@Esther:7:8 @ And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.

rsv@Esther:7:9 @ Then said Harbo'na, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, "Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mor'decai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman's house, fifty cubits high."

rsv@Esther:7:10 @ And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mor'decai. Then the anger of the king abated.

rsv@Esther:8:1 @ 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:8:2 @ and the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mor'decai. And Esther set Mor'decai over the house of Haman.

rsv@Esther:8:3 @ Then Esther spoke again to the king; she fell at his feet and besought him with tears to avert the evil design of Haman the Ag'agite and the plot which he had devised against the Jews.

rsv@Esther:8:4 @ And the king held out the golden scepter to Esther,

rsv@Esther:8:5 @ and Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.

rsv@Esther:8:6 @ For how can I endure to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

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:8:8 @ And you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."

rsv@Esther:8:9 @ The king's secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and an edict was written according to all that Mor'decai commanded concerning the Jews to the satraps and the governors and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.

rsv@Esther:8:10 @ The writing was in the name of King Ahasu-e'rus and sealed with the king's ring, and letters were sent by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud.

rsv@Esther:8:11 @ By these the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods,

rsv@Esther:8:12 @ upon one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

rsv@Esther:8:13 @ A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, and by proclamation to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to avenge themselves upon their enemies.

rsv@Esther:8:14 @ So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out in haste, urged by the king's command; and the decree was issued in Susa the capital.

rsv@Esther:8:15 @ Then Mor'decai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple, while the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

rsv@Esther:8:16 @ The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.

rsv@Esther:8:17 @ And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

rsv@Esther:9:1 @ Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,

rsv@Esther:9:2 @ 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:9:3 @ All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal officials also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mor'decai had fallen upon them.

rsv@Esther:9:4 @ For Mor'decai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for the man Mor'decai grew more and more powerful.

rsv@Esther:9:5 @ So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

rsv@Esther:9:6 @ In Susa the capital itself the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men,

rsv@Esther:9:7 @ and also slew Par-shan-da'tha and Dalphon and Aspa'tha

rsv@Esther:9:8 @ and Pora'tha and Ada'lia and Arida'tha

rsv@Esther:9:9 @ and Parmash'ta and Ar'isai and Ar'idai and Vaiza'tha,

rsv@Esther:9:10 @ the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of the Jews; but they laid no hand on the plunder.

rsv@Esther:9:11 @ That very day the number of those slain in Susa the capital was reported to the king.

rsv@Esther:9:12 @ And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the capital the Jews have slain five hundred men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled."

rsv@Esther:9:13 @ And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."

rsv@Esther:9:14 @ So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

rsv@Esther:9:15 @ The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they slew three hundred men in Susa; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

rsv@Esther:9:16 @ Now the other Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies, and slew seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

rsv@Esther:9:17 @ This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

rsv@Esther:9:18 @ But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.

rsv@Esther:9:19 @ Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting and holiday-making, and a day on which they send choice portions to one another.

rsv@Esther:9:20 @ And Mor'decai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus, both near and far,

rsv@Esther:9:21 @ enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

rsv@Esther:9:22 @ as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending choice portions to one another and gifts to the poor.

rsv@Esther:9:23 @ So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mor'decai had written to them.

rsv@Esther:9:24 @ For Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to crush and destroy them;

rsv@Esther:9:25 @ but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his wicked plot which he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

rsv@Esther:9:26 @ Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. And therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had befallen them,

rsv@Esther:9:27 @ the Jews ordained and took it upon themselves and their descendants and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

rsv@Esther:9:28 @ that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every family, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.

rsv@Esther:9:29 @ Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Ab'ihail, and Mor'decai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.

rsv@Esther:9:30 @ Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasu-e'rus, in words of peace and truth,

rsv@Esther:9:31 @ that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mor'decai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined upon the Jews, and as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.

rsv@Esther:9:32 @ The command of Queen Esther fixed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.

rsv@Esther:10:1 @ King Ahasu-e'rus laid tribute on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

rsv@Esther:10:2 @ And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mor'decai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

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:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

rsv@Job:1:3 @ He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

rsv@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

rsv@Job:1:8 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"

rsv@Job:1:9 @ Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nought?

rsv@Job:1:10 @ Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

rsv@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

rsv@Job:1:13 @ Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

rsv@Job:1:14 @ and there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them;

rsv@Job:1:15 @ and the Sabe'ans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:16 @ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:17 @ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chalde'ans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:18 @ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

rsv@Job:1:19 @ and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:21 @ And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

rsv@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

rsv@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause."

rsv@Job:2:5 @ But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face."

rsv@Job:2:7 @ So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

rsv@Job:2:8 @ And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.

rsv@Job:2:12 @ And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

rsv@Job:3:4 @ Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

rsv@Job:3:5 @ Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

rsv@Job:3:6 @ That night--let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

rsv@Job:3:10 @ because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

rsv@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

rsv@Job:3:13 @ For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,

rsv@Job:3:14 @ with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

rsv@Job:3:15 @ or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

rsv@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

rsv@Job:3:21 @ who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

rsv@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

rsv@Job:3:25 @ For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

rsv@Job:3:26 @ I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes."

rsv@Job:4:2 @ "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?

rsv@Job:4:4 @ Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

rsv@Job:4:5 @ But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

rsv@Job:4:11 @ The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

rsv@Job:4:14 @ dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

rsv@Job:4:15 @ A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

rsv@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

rsv@Job:4:18 @ Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

rsv@Job:4:19 @ how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

rsv@Job:4:20 @ Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

rsv@Job:5:1 @ "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

rsv@Job:5:5 @ His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

rsv@Job:5:6 @ For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;

rsv@Job:5:9 @ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

rsv@Job:5:10 @ he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;

rsv@Job:5:12 @ He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

rsv@Job:5:13 @ He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

rsv@Job:5:14 @ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

rsv@Job:5:15 @ But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty.

rsv@Job:5:17 @ "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:5:18 @ For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.

rsv@Job:5:19 @ He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.

rsv@Job:5:21 @ You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

rsv@Job:5:22 @ At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Job:5:23 @ For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

rsv@Job:5:25 @ You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

rsv@Job:5:26 @ You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

rsv@Job:6:2 @ "O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

rsv@Job:6:5 @ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?

rsv@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?

rsv@Job:6:7 @ My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

rsv@Job:6:8 @ "O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;

rsv@Job:6:12 @ Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?

rsv@Job:6:13 @ In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.

rsv@Job:6:14 @ "He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:6:15 @ My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,

rsv@Job:6:16 @ which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.

rsv@Job:6:23 @ Or, `y's hand'? Or, `ppressors'?

rsv@Job:6:25 @ How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

rsv@Job:6:26 @ Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

rsv@Job:6:27 @ You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

rsv@Job:7:2 @ Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,

rsv@Job:7:3 @ so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

rsv@Job:7:5 @ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

rsv@Job:7:8 @ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

rsv@Job:7:9 @ As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

rsv@Job:7:10 @ he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.

rsv@Job:7:11 @ "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

rsv@Job:7:12 @ Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?

rsv@Job:7:15 @ so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

rsv@Job:7:18 @ dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

rsv@Job:7:21 @ Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."

rsv@Job:8:2 @ "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

rsv@Job:8:3 @ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

rsv@Job:8:4 @ If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.

rsv@Job:8:8 @ "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;

rsv@Job:8:9 @ for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

rsv@Job:8:13 @ Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.

rsv@Job:8:15 @ He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.

rsv@Job:8:16 @ He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

rsv@Job:8:17 @ His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

rsv@Job:8:18 @ If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `ng, "I have never seen you.'

rsv@Job:8:20 @ "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

rsv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

rsv@Job:9:5 @ he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;

rsv@Job:9:6 @ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

rsv@Job:9:7 @ who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;

rsv@Job:9:8 @ who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;

rsv@Job:9:9 @ who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;

rsv@Job:9:10 @ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.

rsv@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

rsv@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, `u'?

rsv@Job:9:17 @ For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;

rsv@Job:9:18 @ he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

rsv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

rsv@Job:9:20 @ Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

rsv@Job:9:21 @ I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

rsv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

rsv@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?

rsv@Job:9:31 @ yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

rsv@Job:10:1 @ "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

rsv@Job:10:3 @ Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

rsv@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?

rsv@Job:10:7 @ although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

rsv@Job:10:8 @ Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.

rsv@Job:10:10 @ Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

rsv@Job:10:11 @ Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

rsv@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.

rsv@Job:10:13 @ Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.

rsv@Job:10:17 @ thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.

rsv@Job:10:21 @ before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

rsv@Job:10:22 @ the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."

rsv@Job:11:4 @ For you say, `r you say, "My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'

rsv@Job:11:6 @ and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

rsv@Job:11:10 @ If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?

rsv@Job:11:11 @ For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

rsv@Job:11:14 @ If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

rsv@Job:11:17 @ And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

rsv@Job:11:18 @ And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.

rsv@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."

rsv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

rsv@Job:12:4 @ I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

rsv@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

rsv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?

rsv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

rsv@Job:12:18 @ He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.

rsv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

rsv@Job:12:20 @ He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.

rsv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.

rsv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.

rsv@Job:12:23 @ He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

rsv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

rsv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

rsv@Job:13:3 @ But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

rsv@Job:13:4 @ As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

rsv@Job:13:9 @ Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

rsv@Job:13:11 @ Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

rsv@Job:13:12 @ Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

rsv@Job:13:14 @ I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

rsv@Job:13:16 @ This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

rsv@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

rsv@Job:13:26 @ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

rsv@Job:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.

rsv@Job:13:28 @ Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

rsv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

rsv@Job:14:3 @ And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?

rsv@Job:14:6 @ look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.

rsv@Job:14:9 @ yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

rsv@Job:14:10 @ But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

rsv@Job:14:11 @ As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,

rsv@Job:14:12 @ so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.

rsv@Job:14:13 @ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

rsv@Job:14:15 @ Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.

rsv@Job:14:16 @ For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;

rsv@Job:14:17 @ my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.

rsv@Job:14:18 @ "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

rsv@Job:14:19 @ the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.

rsv@Job:14:20 @ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

rsv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

rsv@Job:15:5 @ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

rsv@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

rsv@Job:15:12 @ Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

rsv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

rsv@Job:15:16 @ how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

rsv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

rsv@Job:15:21 @ Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

rsv@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.

rsv@Job:15:23 @ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ` wanders abroad for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

rsv@Job:15:24 @ distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.

rsv@Job:15:28 @ and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;

rsv@Job:15:30 @ he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.

rsv@Job:15:31 @ Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.

rsv@Job:15:34 @ For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

rsv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."

rsv@Job:16:3 @ Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

rsv@Job:16:6 @ "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

rsv@Job:16:7 @ Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

rsv@Job:16:8 @ And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.

rsv@Job:16:9 @ He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

rsv@Job:16:10 @ Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.

rsv@Job:16:11 @ God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

rsv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,

rsv@Job:16:13 @ his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.

rsv@Job:16:16 @ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;

rsv@Job:16:18 @ "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

rsv@Job:16:19 @ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.

rsv@Job:17:5 @ He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.

rsv@Job:17:6 @ "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

rsv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

rsv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

rsv@Job:17:12 @ They make night into day; `he light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'

rsv@Job:17:13 @ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

rsv@Job:17:16 @ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

rsv@Job:18:5 @ "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

rsv@Job:18:7 @ His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.

rsv@Job:18:9 @ A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.

rsv@Job:18:13 @ By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.

rsv@Job:18:16 @ His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

rsv@Job:18:17 @ His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

rsv@Job:18:18 @ He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

rsv@Job:18:19 @ He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

rsv@Job:18:20 @ They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

rsv@Job:19:2 @ "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?

rsv@Job:19:3 @ These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?

rsv@Job:19:5 @ If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,

rsv@Job:19:8 @ He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

rsv@Job:19:13 @ "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

rsv@Job:19:15 @ the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.

rsv@Job:19:16 @ I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.

rsv@Job:19:18 @ Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

rsv@Job:19:20 @ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

rsv@Job:19:22 @ Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

rsv@Job:19:25 @ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;

rsv@Job:19:26 @ and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,

rsv@Job:19:27 @ whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

rsv@Job:20:5 @ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

rsv@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

rsv@Job:20:12 @ "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

rsv@Job:20:15 @ He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

rsv@Job:20:20 @ "Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.

rsv@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.

rsv@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.

rsv@Job:20:26 @ Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.

rsv@Job:20:28 @ The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.

rsv@Job:21:6 @ When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

rsv@Job:21:8 @ Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

rsv@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

rsv@Job:21:10 @ Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.

rsv@Job:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

rsv@Job:21:14 @ They say to God, `ey say to God, "Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

rsv@Job:21:17 @ "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

rsv@Job:21:18 @ That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

rsv@Job:21:19 @ You say, `God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

rsv@Job:21:20 @ Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:21:21 @ For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

rsv@Job:21:22 @ Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

rsv@Job:21:23 @ One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,

rsv@Job:21:24 @ his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.

rsv@Job:21:25 @ Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

rsv@Job:21:27 @ "Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

rsv@Job:21:29 @ Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony

rsv@Job:21:30 @ that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

rsv@Job:21:31 @ Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?

rsv@Job:22:3 @ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

rsv@Job:22:4 @ Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

rsv@Job:22:5 @ Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

rsv@Job:22:6 @ For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

rsv@Job:22:8 @ The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.

rsv@Job:22:9 @ You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

rsv@Job:22:10 @ Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;

rsv@Job:22:12 @ "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

rsv@Job:22:13 @ Therefore you say, `erefore you say, "What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

rsv@Job:22:14 @ Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'

rsv@Job:22:18 @ Yet he filled their houses with good things-- but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

rsv@Job:22:23 @ If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

rsv@Job:22:24 @ if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,

rsv@Job:22:28 @ You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

rsv@Job:22:29 @ For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.

rsv@Job:22:30 @ He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

rsv@Job:23:6 @ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me.

rsv@Job:23:13 @ But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.

rsv@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.

rsv@Job:23:17 @ for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.

rsv@Job:24:1 @ "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?

rsv@Job:24:3 @ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

rsv@Job:24:4 @ They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

rsv@Job:24:5 @ Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.

rsv@Job:24:9 @ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

rsv@Job:24:10 @ They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;

rsv@Job:24:11 @ among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

rsv@Job:24:12 @ From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

rsv@Job:24:14 @ The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

rsv@Job:24:15 @ The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, `No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face.

rsv@Job:24:16 @ In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

rsv@Job:24:17 @ For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

rsv@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

rsv@Job:24:20 @ The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.'

rsv@Job:24:21 @ "They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

rsv@Job:24:22 @ Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

rsv@Job:24:23 @ He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.

rsv@Job:25:2 @ "Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.

rsv@Job:25:3 @ Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

rsv@Job:25:6 @ how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!"

rsv@Job:26:5 @ The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.

rsv@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

rsv@Job:26:10 @ He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

rsv@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

rsv@Job:27:2 @ "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;

rsv@Job:27:6 @ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

rsv@Job:27:7 @ "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

rsv@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

rsv@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him?

rsv@Job:27:10 @ Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

rsv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

rsv@Job:27:13 @ "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty:

rsv@Job:27:15 @ Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.

rsv@Job:27:18 @ The house which he builds is like a spider's web, like a booth which a watchman makes.

rsv@Job:27:19 @ He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

rsv@Job:27:20 @ Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

rsv@Job:27:22 @ It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.

rsv@Job:27:23 @ It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from its place.

rsv@Job:28:3 @ Men put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

rsv@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

rsv@Job:28:6 @ Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

rsv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

rsv@Job:28:13 @ Man does not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living.

rsv@Job:28:20 @ "Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

rsv@Job:28:21 @ It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.

rsv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens.

rsv@Job:28:27 @ then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.

rsv@Job:29:3 @ when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

rsv@Job:29:9 @ the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

rsv@Job:29:10 @ the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

rsv@Job:29:11 @ When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved;

rsv@Job:29:12 @ because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

rsv@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

rsv@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

rsv@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

rsv@Job:29:18 @ Then I thought, `en I thought, "I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

rsv@Job:29:19 @ my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

rsv@Job:29:20 @ my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

rsv@Job:30:3 @ Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

rsv@Job:30:4 @ they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.

rsv@Job:30:6 @ In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

rsv@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

rsv@Job:30:8 @ A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

rsv@Job:30:10 @ They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.

rsv@Job:30:11 @ Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

rsv@Job:30:12 @ On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

rsv@Job:30:13 @ They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.

rsv@Job:30:17 @ The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

rsv@Job:30:18 @ With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

rsv@Job:30:19 @ God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

rsv@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.

rsv@Job:30:24 @ "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

rsv@Job:30:26 @ But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

rsv@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

rsv@Job:30:30 @ My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

rsv@Job:31:1 @ "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

rsv@Job:31:3 @ Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

rsv@Job:31:4 @ Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

rsv@Job:31:7 @ if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

rsv@Job:31:11 @ For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

rsv@Job:31:12 @ for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.

rsv@Job:31:14 @ what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

rsv@Job:31:16 @ "If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

rsv@Job:31:17 @ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

rsv@Job:31:20 @ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

rsv@Job:31:21 @ if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

rsv@Job:31:23 @ For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

rsv@Job:31:28 @ this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

rsv@Job:31:33 @ if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

rsv@Job:31:34 @ because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors--

rsv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

rsv@Job:32:5 @ And when Eli'hu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he became angry.

rsv@Job:32:8 @ But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

rsv@Job:32:13 @ Beware lest you say, `ware lest you say, "We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man.'

rsv@Job:32:14 @ He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.

rsv@Job:32:19 @ Behold, my heart is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.

rsv@Job:33:3 @ My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

rsv@Job:33:4 @ The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

rsv@Job:33:7 @ Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.

rsv@Job:33:9 @ You say, `u say, "I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

rsv@Job:33:11 @ he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'

rsv@Job:33:14 @ For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

rsv@Job:33:16 @ then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings,

rsv@Job:33:19 @ "Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;

rsv@Job:33:20 @ so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.

rsv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and his bones which were not seen stick out.

rsv@Job:33:25 @ let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';

rsv@Job:33:26 @ then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,

rsv@Job:33:29 @ "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,

rsv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

rsv@Job:34:3 @ for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

rsv@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.

rsv@Job:34:6 @ in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

rsv@Job:34:8 @ who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?

rsv@Job:34:10 @ "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

rsv@Job:34:15 @ all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

rsv@Job:34:17 @ Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,

rsv@Job:34:18 @ who says to a king, `o says to a king, "Worthless one,' and to nobles, `d to nobles, "Wicked man';

rsv@Job:34:19 @ who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

rsv@Job:34:21 @ "For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

rsv@Job:34:22 @ There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

rsv@Job:34:24 @ He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.

rsv@Job:34:26 @ He strikes them for their wickedness in the sight of men,

rsv@Job:34:29 @ When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--

rsv@Job:34:30 @ that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.

rsv@Job:34:37 @ For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."

rsv@Job:35:6 @ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

rsv@Job:35:7 @ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?

rsv@Job:35:8 @ Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

rsv@Job:35:9 @ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

rsv@Job:35:10 @ But none says, `t none says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

rsv@Job:35:11 @ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'

rsv@Job:35:12 @ There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

rsv@Job:35:13 @ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

rsv@Job:35:14 @ How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

rsv@Job:35:15 @ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,

rsv@Job:35:16 @ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."

rsv@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

rsv@Job:36:5 @ "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

rsv@Job:36:6 @ He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

rsv@Job:36:7 @ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.

rsv@Job:36:9 @ then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

rsv@Job:36:11 @ If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

rsv@Job:36:13 @ "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

rsv@Job:36:16 @ He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

rsv@Job:36:18 @ Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

rsv@Job:36:19 @ Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?

rsv@Job:36:20 @ Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

rsv@Job:36:23 @ Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ` who can say, "Thou hast done wrong'?

rsv@Job:36:28 @ which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.

rsv@Job:36:31 @ For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

rsv@Job:36:33 @ Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.

rsv@Job:37:1 @ "At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.

rsv@Job:37:2 @ Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

rsv@Job:37:4 @ After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

rsv@Job:37:5 @ God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.

rsv@Job:37:9 @ From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.

rsv@Job:37:13 @ Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.

rsv@Job:37:15 @ Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

rsv@Job:37:18 @ Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

rsv@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

rsv@Job:37:21 @ "And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

rsv@Job:37:22 @ Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with terrible majesty.

rsv@Job:37:23 @ The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

rsv@Job:37:24 @ Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."

rsv@Job:38:3 @ Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

rsv@Job:38:6 @ On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,

rsv@Job:38:9 @ when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

rsv@Job:38:10 @ and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

rsv@Job:38:11 @ and said, `d said, "Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?

rsv@Job:38:16 @ "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

rsv@Job:38:17 @ Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

rsv@Job:38:19 @ "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,

rsv@Job:38:22 @ "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

rsv@Job:38:23 @ which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

rsv@Job:38:26 @ to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;

rsv@Job:38:27 @ to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?

rsv@Job:38:31 @ "Can you bind the chains of the Plei'ades, or loose the cords of Orion?

rsv@Job:38:33 @ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

rsv@Job:38:41 @ Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?

rsv@Job:39:4 @ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.

rsv@Job:39:8 @ He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

rsv@Job:39:10 @ Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

rsv@Job:39:12 @ Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?

rsv@Job:39:14 @ For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,

rsv@Job:39:18 @ When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

rsv@Job:39:20 @ Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

rsv@Job:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

rsv@Job:39:22 @ He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

rsv@Job:39:24 @ With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

rsv@Job:39:27 @ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

rsv@Job:39:28 @ On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag.

rsv@Job:39:29 @ Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.

rsv@Job:39:30 @ His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he."

rsv@Job:40:2 @ "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

rsv@Job:40:7 @ "Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.

rsv@Job:40:10 @ "Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.

rsv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.

rsv@Job:40:16 @ Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

rsv@Job:40:17 @ He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

rsv@Job:40:18 @ His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

rsv@Job:40:21 @ Under the lotus plants he lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh.

rsv@Job:40:22 @ For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.

rsv@Job:40:23 @ Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.

rsv@Job:41:1 @ "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

rsv@Job:41:10 @ No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he that can stand before me?

rsv@Job:41:18 @ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

rsv@Job:41:19 @ Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

rsv@Job:41:20 @ Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

rsv@Job:41:21 @ His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

rsv@Job:41:22 @ In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

rsv@Job:41:23 @ The folds of his flesh cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.

rsv@Job:41:25 @ When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

rsv@Job:41:26 @ Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail; nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

rsv@Job:41:28 @ The arrow cannot make him flee; for him slingstones are turned to stubble.

rsv@Job:41:30 @ His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

rsv@Job:41:31 @ He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

rsv@Job:41:32 @ Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.

rsv@Job:42:3 @ `ho is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

rsv@Job:42:4 @ `ear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'

rsv@Job:42:5 @ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;

rsv@Job:42:6 @ therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

rsv@Job:42:7 @ After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eli'phaz the Te'manite: "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

rsv@Job:42:8 @ Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."

rsv@Job:42:10 @ And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

rsv@Job:42:12 @ And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

rsv@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

rsv@Psalms:1:2 @ but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

rsv@Psalms:1:3 @ He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

rsv@Psalms:1:4 @ The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.

rsv@Psalms:2:1 @ Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?

rsv@Psalms:2:2 @ The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,

rsv@Psalms:2:8 @ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.

rsv@Psalms:2:9 @ You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

rsv@Psalms:2:12 @ kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

rsv@Psalms:3:2 @ O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

rsv@Psalms:3:7 @ I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.

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:4:2 @ Answer me when I call, O God of my right! Thou hast given me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.

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:4:6 @ Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:4:8 @ Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. [ (Psalms strkjv@4:9) In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O LORD, makest me dwell in safety. ]

rsv@Psalms:5:1 @ To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:5:5 @ For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee.

rsv@Psalms:5:6 @ The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.

rsv@Psalms:5:7 @ Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.

rsv@Psalms:5:9 @ Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies; make thy way straight before me.

rsv@Psalms:5:10 @ For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

rsv@Psalms:5:11 @ Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against thee.

rsv@Psalms:5:12 @ But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice, let them ever sing for joy; and do thou defend them, that those who love thy name may exult in thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@5:13) For thou dost bless the righteous, O LORD; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield. ]

rsv@Psalms:6:3 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

rsv@Psalms:6:8 @ My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.

rsv@Psalms:6:10 @ The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD accepts my prayer. [ (Psalms strkjv@6:11) All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled; they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment. ]

rsv@Psalms:7:3 @ lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

rsv@Psalms:7:7 @ Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

rsv@Psalms:7:8 @ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.

rsv@Psalms:7:9 @ The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

rsv@Psalms:7:10 @ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.

rsv@Psalms:7:11 @ My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

rsv@Psalms:7:13 @ If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

rsv@Psalms:7:15 @ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

rsv@Psalms:7:16 @ He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.

rsv@Psalms:7:17 @ His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends. [ (Psalms strkjv@7:18) I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. ]

rsv@Psalms:8:2 @ O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted

rsv@Psalms:8:3 @ by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

rsv@Psalms:8:4 @ When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;

rsv@Psalms:8:6 @ Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.

rsv@Psalms:8:9 @ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. [ (Psalms strkjv@8:10) O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:9:4 @ When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.

rsv@Psalms:9:6 @ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:9:7 @ The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities thou hast rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

rsv@Psalms:9:8 @ But the LORD sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;

rsv@Psalms:9:9 @ and he judges the world with righteousness, he judges the peoples with equity.

rsv@Psalms:9:10 @ The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

rsv@Psalms:9:12 @ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!

rsv@Psalms:9:13 @ For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

rsv@Psalms:9:14 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD! Behold what I suffer from those who hate me, O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

rsv@Psalms:9:15 @ that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.

rsv@Psalms:10:1 @ Why dost thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

rsv@Psalms:10:2 @ In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.

rsv@Psalms:10:3 @ For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:10:4 @ In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

rsv@Psalms:10:5 @ His ways prosper at all times; thy judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

rsv@Psalms:10:7 @ His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

rsv@Psalms:10:8 @ He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,

rsv@Psalms:10:9 @ he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

rsv@Psalms:10:10 @ The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might.

rsv@Psalms:10:13 @ Why does the wicked renounce God, and say in his heart, "Thou wilt not call to account"?

rsv@Psalms:10:14 @ Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayest take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

rsv@Psalms:10:15 @ Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

rsv@Psalms:10:17 @ O LORD, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear

rsv@Psalms:10:18 @ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

rsv@Psalms:11:4 @ if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do"?

rsv@Psalms:11:5 @ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.

rsv@Psalms:11:6 @ The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence.

rsv@Psalms:11:7 @ On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. [ (Psalms strkjv@11:8) For the LORD is righteous, he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face. ]

rsv@Psalms:12:3 @ Every one utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

rsv@Psalms:12:4 @ May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

rsv@Psalms:12:6 @ "Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."

rsv@Psalms:12:7 @ The promises of the LORD are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

rsv@Psalms:12:8 @ Do thou, O LORD, protect us, guard us ever from this generation. [ (Psalms strkjv@12:9) On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the sons of men. ]

rsv@Psalms:13:4 @ Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

rsv@Psalms:13:5 @ lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him"; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

rsv@Psalms:14:2 @ The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.

rsv@Psalms:14:4 @ They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.

rsv@Psalms:14:7 @ You would confound the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge. [ (Psalms strkjv@14:8) O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad. ]

rsv@Psalms:15:3 @ He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;

rsv@Psalms:15:4 @ who does not slander with his tongue, and does no evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

rsv@Psalms:15:5 @ in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; [ (Psalms strkjv@15:6) who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. ]

rsv@Psalms:16:2 @ Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge.

rsv@Psalms:16:5 @ Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

rsv@Psalms:16:6 @ The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot.

rsv@Psalms:16:7 @ The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

rsv@Psalms:16:8 @ I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

rsv@Psalms:16:10 @ Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure.

rsv@Psalms:16:11 @ For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit. [ (Psalms strkjv@16:12) Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:17:3 @ From thee let my vindication come! Let thy eyes see the right!

rsv@Psalms:17:4 @ If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.

rsv@Psalms:17:8 @ Wondrously show thy steadfast love, O savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at thy right hand.

rsv@Psalms:17:10 @ from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me.

rsv@Psalms:17:12 @ They track me down; now they surround me; they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:17:15 @ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes. [ (Psalms strkjv@17:16) As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy form. ]

rsv@Psalms:18:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:

rsv@Psalms:18:3 @ The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

rsv@Psalms:18:4 @ I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:18:6 @ the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

rsv@Psalms:18:7 @ In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

rsv@Psalms:18:10 @ He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

rsv@Psalms:18:12 @ He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.

rsv@Psalms:18:13 @ Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

rsv@Psalms:18:14 @ The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

rsv@Psalms:18:21 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@Psalms:18:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.

rsv@Psalms:18:24 @ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

rsv@Psalms:18:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

rsv@Psalms:18:26 @ With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;

rsv@Psalms:18:28 @ For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.

rsv@Psalms:18:29 @ Yea, thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

rsv@Psalms:18:31 @ This God--his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

rsv@Psalms:18:38 @ I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back till they were consumed.

rsv@Psalms:18:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.

rsv@Psalms:18:44 @ Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst make me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

rsv@Psalms:18:46 @ Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

rsv@Psalms:18:47 @ The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,

rsv@Psalms:18:48 @ the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me;

rsv@Psalms:18:49 @ who delivered me from my enemies; yea, thou didst exalt me above my adversaries; thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

rsv@Psalms:18:50 @ For this I will extol thee, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name. [ (Psalms strkjv@18:51) Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:19:3 @ Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.

rsv@Psalms:19:5 @ yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

rsv@Psalms:19:6 @ which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs its course with joy.

rsv@Psalms:19:8 @ The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

rsv@Psalms:19:9 @ the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;

rsv@Psalms:19:10 @ the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

rsv@Psalms:19:11 @ More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

rsv@Psalms:19:14 @ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. [ (Psalms strkjv@19:15) Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. ]

rsv@Psalms:20:4 @ May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:20:5 @ May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfil all your plans!

rsv@Psalms:20:7 @ Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.

rsv@Psalms:20:8 @ Some boast of chariots, and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the LORD our God.

rsv@Psalms:21:2 @ In thy strength the king rejoices, O LORD; and in thy help how greatly he exults!

rsv@Psalms:21:3 @ Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:21:4 @ For thou dost meet him with goodly blessings; thou dost set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

rsv@Psalms:21:5 @ He asked life of thee; thou gavest it to him, length of days for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:21:6 @ His glory is great through thy help; splendor and majesty thou dost bestow upon him.

rsv@Psalms:21:7 @ Yea, thou dost make him most blessed for ever; thou dost make him glad with the joy of thy presence.

rsv@Psalms:21:9 @ Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.

rsv@Psalms:21:11 @ You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children from among the sons of men.

rsv@Psalms:21:13 @ For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. [ (Psalms strkjv@21:14) Be exalted, O LORD, in thy strength! We will sing and praise thy power. ]

rsv@Psalms:22:3 @ O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest.

rsv@Psalms:22:4 @ Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:22:7 @ But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.

rsv@Psalms:22:9 @ "He committed his cause to the LORD; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"

rsv@Psalms:22:15 @ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;

rsv@Psalms:22:16 @ my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

rsv@Psalms:22:18 @ I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me;

rsv@Psalms:22:25 @ For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

rsv@Psalms:22:26 @ From thee comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.

rsv@Psalms:22:28 @ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.

rsv@Psalms:22:29 @ For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.

rsv@Psalms:23:3 @ he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters;

rsv@Psalms:23:4 @ he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

rsv@Psalms:23:6 @ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows. [ (Psalms strkjv@23:7) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:24:2 @ The earth is the LORD's and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;

rsv@Psalms:24:3 @ for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.

rsv@Psalms:24:5 @ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.

rsv@Psalms:24:6 @ He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.

rsv@Psalms:24:8 @ Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.

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:25:3 @ O my God, in thee I trust, let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

rsv@Psalms:25:8 @ Remember not the sins of my youth, or my transgressions; according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:25:10 @ He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.

rsv@Psalms:25:11 @ All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:25:14 @ He himself shall abide in prosperity, and his children shall possess the land.

rsv@Psalms:25:15 @ The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:25:16 @ My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

rsv@Psalms:25:18 @ Relieve the troubles of my heart, and bring me out of my distresses.

rsv@Psalms:25:20 @ Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.

rsv@Psalms:25:22 @ May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@25:23) Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. ]

rsv@Psalms:26:3 @ Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

rsv@Psalms:26:4 @ For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee.

rsv@Psalms:26:11 @ men in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.

rsv@Psalms:26:12 @ But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me. [ (Psalms strkjv@26:13) My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the LORD. ]

rsv@Psalms:27:3 @ When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

rsv@Psalms:27:7 @ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:27:12 @ Teach me thy way, O LORD; and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:27:13 @ Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

rsv@Psalms:27:14 @ I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! [ (Psalms strkjv@27:15) Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the LORD! ]

rsv@Psalms:28:2 @ To thee, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:28:7 @ Blessed be the LORD! for he has heard the voice of my supplications.

rsv@Psalms:28:9 @ The LORD is the strength of his people, he is the saving refuge of his anointed. [ (Psalms strkjv@28:10) O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:29:5 @ The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

rsv@Psalms:29:7 @ He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox.

rsv@Psalms:29:8 @ The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.

rsv@Psalms:29:9 @ The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

rsv@Psalms:29:10 @ The voice of the LORD makes the oaks to whirl, and strips the forests bare; and in his temple all cry, "Glory!"

rsv@Psalms:29:11 @ The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@29:12) May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace! ]

rsv@Psalms:30:2 @ I will extol thee, O LORD, for thou hast drawn me up, and hast not let my foes rejoice over me.

rsv@Psalms:30:4 @ O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:30:5 @ Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.

rsv@Psalms:30:6 @ For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

rsv@Psalms:30:8 @ By thy favor, O LORD, thou hadst established me as a strong mountain; thou didst hide thy face, I was dismayed.

rsv@Psalms:30:10 @ "What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?

rsv@Psalms:30:12 @ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, [ (Psalms strkjv@30:13) that my soul may praise thee and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:31:2 @ In thee, O LORD, do I seek refuge; let me never be put to shame; in thy righteousness deliver me!

rsv@Psalms:31:3 @ Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!

rsv@Psalms:31:4 @ Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,

rsv@Psalms:31:7 @ Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:31:8 @ I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love, because thou hast seen my affliction, thou hast taken heed of my adversities,

rsv@Psalms:31:10 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.

rsv@Psalms:31:11 @ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.

rsv@Psalms:31:12 @ I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

rsv@Psalms:31:13 @ I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

rsv@Psalms:31:16 @ My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!

rsv@Psalms:31:20 @ O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:31:21 @ In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them from the plots of men; thou holdest them safe under thy shelter from the strife of tongues.

rsv@Psalms:31:22 @ Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was beset as in a besieged city.

rsv@Psalms:31:24 @ Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily. [ (Psalms strkjv@31:25) Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! ]

rsv@Psalms:32:2 @ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

rsv@Psalms:32:3 @ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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:32:7 @ Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.

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:33:4 @ For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:33:5 @ He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:33:7 @ He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

rsv@Psalms:33:10 @ The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:33:12 @ Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

rsv@Psalms:33:13 @ The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men;

rsv@Psalms:33:15 @ he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.

rsv@Psalms:34:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.

rsv@Psalms:34:2 @ I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

rsv@Psalms:34:3 @ My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.

rsv@Psalms:34:6 @ Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

rsv@Psalms:34:7 @ This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

rsv@Psalms:34:9 @ O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!

rsv@Psalms:34:13 @ What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?

rsv@Psalms:34:16 @ The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.

rsv@Psalms:34:18 @ When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

rsv@Psalms:34:19 @ The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

rsv@Psalms:34:21 @ He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

rsv@Psalms:35:9 @ Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!

rsv@Psalms:35:11 @ All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like thee, thou who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"

rsv@Psalms:35:12 @ Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.

rsv@Psalms:35:16 @ But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;

rsv@Psalms:35:18 @ How long, O LORD, wilt thou look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

rsv@Psalms:35:20 @ Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

rsv@Psalms:35:22 @ They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!"

rsv@Psalms:35:24 @ Bestir thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord!

rsv@Psalms:35:25 @ Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me!

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:35:27 @ Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

rsv@Psalms:35:28 @ Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and say evermore, "Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!" [ (Psalms strkjv@35:29) Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. ]

rsv@Psalms:36:2 @ Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.

rsv@Psalms:36:3 @ For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

rsv@Psalms:36:6 @ Thy steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.

rsv@Psalms:36:7 @ Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:36:9 @ They feast on the abundance of thy house, and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.

rsv@Psalms:37:5 @ Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

rsv@Psalms:37:8 @ Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

rsv@Psalms:37:10 @ For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the LORD shall possess the land.

rsv@Psalms:37:12 @ But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

rsv@Psalms:37:13 @ The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;

rsv@Psalms:37:14 @ but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

rsv@Psalms:37:19 @ The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide for ever;

rsv@Psalms:37:20 @ they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance.

rsv@Psalms:37:21 @ But the wicked perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish--like smoke they vanish away.

rsv@Psalms:37:22 @ The wicked borrows, and cannot pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

rsv@Psalms:37:23 @ for those blessed by the LORD shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:37:24 @ The steps of a man are from the LORD, and he establishes him in whose way he delights;

rsv@Psalms:37:27 @ He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.

rsv@Psalms:37:29 @ For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:37:30 @ The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell upon it for ever.

rsv@Psalms:37:33 @ The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

rsv@Psalms:37:35 @ Wait for the LORD, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:37:38 @ Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.

rsv@Psalms:37:39 @ But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:37:40 @ The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their refuge in the time of trouble. [ (Psalms strkjv@37:41) The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them, because they take refuge in him. ]

rsv@Psalms:38:4 @ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

rsv@Psalms:38:5 @ For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

rsv@Psalms:38:6 @ My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness,

rsv@Psalms:38:8 @ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

rsv@Psalms:38:11 @ My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.

rsv@Psalms:38:13 @ Those who seek my life lay their snares, those who seek my hurt speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all the day long.

rsv@Psalms:38:14 @ But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.

rsv@Psalms:38:15 @ Yea, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

rsv@Psalms:38:19 @ I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.

rsv@Psalms:38:20 @ Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

rsv@Psalms:38:21 @ Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.

rsv@Psalms:39:2 @ I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence."

rsv@Psalms:39:3 @ I was dumb and silent, I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse,

rsv@Psalms:39:7 @ Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nought are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

rsv@Psalms:39:9 @ Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the scorn of the fool!

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:39:13 @ "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers. [ (Psalms strkjv@39:14) Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!" ]

rsv@Psalms:40:3 @ He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

rsv@Psalms:40:5 @ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!

rsv@Psalms:40:7 @ Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; but thou hast given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.

rsv@Psalms:40:10 @ I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:40:11 @ I have not hid thy saving help within my heart, I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.

rsv@Psalms:40:12 @ Do not thou, O LORD, withhold thy mercy from me, let thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness ever preserve me!

rsv@Psalms:40:13 @ For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, till I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

rsv@Psalms:40:15 @ Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

rsv@Psalms:40:17 @ But may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; may those who love thy salvation say continually, "Great is the LORD!" [ (Psalms strkjv@40:18) As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord takes thought for me. Thou art my help and my deliverer; do not tarry, O my God! ]

rsv@Psalms:41:2 @ Blessed is he who considers the poor! The LORD delivers him in the day of trouble;

rsv@Psalms:41:3 @ the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; thou dost not give him up to the will of his enemies.

rsv@Psalms:41:4 @ The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness thou healest all his infirmities.

rsv@Psalms:41:6 @ My enemies say of me in malice: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

rsv@Psalms:41:7 @ And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers mischief; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

rsv@Psalms:41:9 @ They say, "A deadly thing has fastened upon him; he will not rise again from where he lies."

rsv@Psalms:41:13 @ But thou hast upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in thy presence for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@41:14) Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. ]

rsv@Psalms:42:5 @ These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

rsv@Psalms:42:8 @ Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.

rsv@Psalms:42:10 @ I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

rsv@Psalms:42:11 @ As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?" [ (Psalms strkjv@42:12) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. ]

rsv@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

rsv@Psalms:44:3 @ thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;

rsv@Psalms:44:5 @ Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:44:6 @ Through thee we push down our foes; through thy name we tread down our assailants.

rsv@Psalms:44:8 @ But thou hast saved us from our foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.

rsv@Psalms:44:10 @ Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.

rsv@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.

rsv@Psalms:44:15 @ Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:44:20 @ that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.

rsv@Psalms:44:24 @ Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!

rsv@Psalms:44:25 @ Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?

rsv@Psalms:44:26 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground. [ (Psalms strkjv@44:27) Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love! ]

rsv@Psalms:45:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.

rsv@Psalms:45:2 @ My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

rsv@Psalms:45:3 @ You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you for ever.

rsv@Psalms:45:4 @ Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty!

rsv@Psalms:45:5 @ In your majesty ride forth victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend the right; let your right hand teach you dread deeds!

rsv@Psalms:45:6 @ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.

rsv@Psalms:45:7 @ Your divine throne endures for ever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;

rsv@Psalms:45:8 @ you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows;

rsv@Psalms:45:9 @ your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

rsv@Psalms:45:10 @ daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

rsv@Psalms:45:12 @ and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;

rsv@Psalms:45:13 @ the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts, the richest of the people

rsv@Psalms:45:14 @ with all kinds of wealth. The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;

rsv@Psalms:45:15 @ in many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train.

rsv@Psalms:45:16 @ With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.

rsv@Psalms:45:17 @ Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. [ (Psalms strkjv@45:18) I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations; therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:46:2 @ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

rsv@Psalms:46:9 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has wrought desolations in the earth.

rsv@Psalms:46:10 @ He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, he burns the chariots with fire!

rsv@Psalms:47:2 @ Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

rsv@Psalms:47:4 @ He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

rsv@Psalms:47:5 @ He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:47:7 @ Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

rsv@Psalms:47:8 @ For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!

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:48:9 @ 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:48:11 @ As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Thy right hand is filled with victory;

rsv@Psalms:49:2 @ Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

rsv@Psalms:49:6 @ Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,

rsv@Psalms:49:7 @ men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

rsv@Psalms:49:12 @ Their graves are their homes for ever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.

rsv@Psalms:49:15 @ Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

rsv@Psalms:49:17 @ Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.

rsv@Psalms:49:18 @ For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

rsv@Psalms:49:19 @ Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,

rsv@Psalms:50:3 @ Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

rsv@Psalms:50:4 @ Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

rsv@Psalms:50:6 @ "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"

rsv@Psalms:50:7 @ The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:50:8 @ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

rsv@Psalms:50:9 @ I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

rsv@Psalms:50:11 @ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

rsv@Psalms:50:12 @ I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.

rsv@Psalms:50:14 @ Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

rsv@Psalms:50:17 @ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?

rsv@Psalms:50:20 @ "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

rsv@Psalms:50:22 @ These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

rsv@Psalms:50:23 @ "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver! [ (Psalms strkjv@50:24) He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!" ]

rsv@Psalms:51:2 @ Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

rsv@Psalms:51:4 @ For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

rsv@Psalms:51:5 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.

rsv@Psalms:51:7 @ Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

rsv@Psalms:51:9 @ Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.

rsv@Psalms:51:10 @ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

rsv@Psalms:51:12 @ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.

rsv@Psalms:51:13 @ Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

rsv@Psalms:51:14 @ Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee.

rsv@Psalms:51:15 @ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.

rsv@Psalms:51:18 @ The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

rsv@Psalms:51:19 @ Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, [ (Psalms strkjv@51:20) then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy altar. ]

rsv@Psalms:52:3 @ you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

rsv@Psalms:52:8 @ "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"

rsv@Psalms:52:9 @ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@52:10) I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it. I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. ]

rsv@Psalms:53:2 @ The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.

rsv@Psalms:53:4 @ They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.

rsv@Psalms:53:6 @ There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them. [ (Psalms strkjv@53:7) O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad. ]

rsv@Psalms:54:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, "David is in hiding among us."

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:54:6 @ He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy faithfulness put an end to them.

rsv@Psalms:54:7 @ With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee; I will give thanks to thy name, O LORD, for it is good. [ (Psalms strkjv@54:8) For thou hast delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies. ]

rsv@Psalms:55:4 @ by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

rsv@Psalms:55:7 @ And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

rsv@Psalms:55:8 @ yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:55:9 @ I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."

rsv@Psalms:55:10 @ Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

rsv@Psalms:55:12 @ ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.

rsv@Psalms:55:16 @ Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.

rsv@Psalms:55:23 @ Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. [ (Psalms strkjv@55:24) But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee. ]

rsv@Psalms:56:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

rsv@Psalms:56:2 @ Be gracious to me, O God, for men trample upon me; all day long foemen oppress me;

rsv@Psalms:56:3 @ my enemies trample upon me all day long, for many fight against me proudly.

rsv@Psalms:56:5 @ In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?

rsv@Psalms:56:7 @ They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,

rsv@Psalms:56:8 @ so recompense them for their crime; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

rsv@Psalms:56:10 @ Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

rsv@Psalms:57:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

rsv@Psalms:57:2 @ Be merdiful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in thee my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.

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:57:5 @ I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

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:57:10 @ I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to thee among the nations.

rsv@Psalms:57:11 @ For thy steadfast love is great to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds. [ (Psalms strkjv@57:12) Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:58:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.

rsv@Psalms:58:4 @ The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.

rsv@Psalms:58:6 @ so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.

rsv@Psalms:58:9 @ Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

rsv@Psalms:58:11 @ The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. [ (Psalms strkjv@58:12) Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth." ]

rsv@Psalms:59:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.

rsv@Psalms:59:2 @ Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, protect me from those who rise up against me,

rsv@Psalms:59:4 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men band themselves against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,

rsv@Psalms:59:10 @ O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.

rsv@Psalms:59:11 @ My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:59:12 @ Slay them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!

rsv@Psalms:59:13 @ For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies which they utter,

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:59:17 @ But I will sing of thy might; I will sing aloud of thy steadfast love in the morning. For thou hast been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress. [ (Psalms strkjv@59:18) O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee, for thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. ]

rsv@Psalms:60:2 @ O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses; thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.

rsv@Psalms:60:3 @ Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.

rsv@Psalms:60:11 @ Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.

rsv@Psalms:60:12 @ O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man! [ (Psalms strkjv@60:13) With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. ]

rsv@Psalms:61:8 @ May he be enthroned for ever before God; bid steadfast love and faithfulness watch over him! [ (Psalms strkjv@61:9) So will I ever sing praises to thy name, as I pay my vows day after day. ]

rsv@Psalms:62:2 @ For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.

rsv@Psalms:62:3 @ He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly moved.

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:62:7 @ He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.

rsv@Psalms:62:8 @ On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

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:62:10 @ Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

rsv@Psalms:62:11 @ Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

rsv@Psalms:63:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

rsv@Psalms:63:2 @ O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.

rsv@Psalms:63:5 @ So I will bless thee as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on thy name.

rsv@Psalms:63:6 @ My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,

rsv@Psalms:63:7 @ when I think of thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;

rsv@Psalms:63:10 @ But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

rsv@Psalms:64:2 @ Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy,

rsv@Psalms:64:4 @ who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

rsv@Psalms:64:5 @ shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.

rsv@Psalms:64:6 @ They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see us?

rsv@Psalms:64:7 @ Who can search out our crimes? We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!

rsv@Psalms:65:3 @ O thou who hearest prayer! To thee shall all flesh come

rsv@Psalms:65:4 @ on account of sins. When our transgressions prevail over us, thou dost forgive them.

rsv@Psalms:65:5 @ Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in thy courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple!

rsv@Psalms:65:6 @ By dread deeds thou dost answer us with deliverance, O God of our salvation, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the farthest seas;

rsv@Psalms:65:7 @ who by thy strength hast established the mountains, being girded with might;

rsv@Psalms:65:8 @ who dost still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples;

rsv@Psalms:65:9 @ so that those who dwell at earth's farthest bounds are afraid at thy signs; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

rsv@Psalms:65:10 @ Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly enrichest it; the river of God is full of water; thou providest their grain, for so thou hast prepared it.

rsv@Psalms:65:11 @ Thou waterest its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.

rsv@Psalms:65:12 @ Thou crownest the year with thy bounty; the tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness.

rsv@Psalms:65:13 @ The pastures of the wilderness drip, the hills gird themselves with joy, [ (Psalms strkjv@65:14) the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy. ]

rsv@Psalms:66:4 @ Say to God, "How terrible are thy deeds! So great is thy power that thy enemies cringe before thee.

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:66:9 @ Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,

rsv@Psalms:66:11 @ For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.

rsv@Psalms:66:20 @ But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer. [ (Psalms strkjv@66:21) Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me! ]

rsv@Psalms:67:2 @ May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:67:4 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!

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:67:6 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!

rsv@Psalms:67:7 @ The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. [ (Psalms strkjv@67:8) God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him! ]

rsv@Psalms:68:2 @ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him!

rsv@Psalms:68:5 @ Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds; his name is the LORD, exult before him!

rsv@Psalms:68:6 @ Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

rsv@Psalms:68:7 @ God gives the desolate a home to dwell in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

rsv@Psalms:68:8 @ O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:9 @ the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, at the presence of God; yon Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:68:10 @ Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;

rsv@Psalms:68:11 @ thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy.

rsv@Psalms:68:12 @ The Lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore the tidings:

rsv@Psalms:68:13 @ "The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil,

rsv@Psalms:68:17 @ Why look you with envy, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount which God desired for his abode, yea, where the LORD will dwell for ever?

rsv@Psalms:68:19 @ Thou didst ascend the high mount, leading captives in thy train, and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

rsv@Psalms:68:20 @ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:21 @ Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

rsv@Psalms:68:22 @ But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.

rsv@Psalms:68:24 @ that you may bathe your feet in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."

rsv@Psalms:68:25 @ Thy solemn processions are seen, O God, the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary--

rsv@Psalms:68:27 @ "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!"

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:68:31 @ Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.

rsv@Psalms:68:33 @ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:34 @ to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; lo, he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.

rsv@Psalms:68:35 @ Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies. [ (Psalms strkjv@68:36) Terrible is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel, he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! ]

rsv@Psalms:69:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:69:4 @ I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

rsv@Psalms:69:5 @ More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

rsv@Psalms:69:6 @ O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.

rsv@Psalms:69:15 @ rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

rsv@Psalms:69:18 @ Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.

rsv@Psalms:69:19 @ Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!

rsv@Psalms:69:20 @ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.

rsv@Psalms:69:21 @ Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

rsv@Psalms:69:24 @ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.

rsv@Psalms:69:26 @ May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.

rsv@Psalms:69:33 @ Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

rsv@Psalms:69:34 @ For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

rsv@Psalms:69:35 @ Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.

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:70:3 @ Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

rsv@Psalms:71:2 @ In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline thy ear to me, and save me!

rsv@Psalms:71:3 @ Be thou to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress.

rsv@Psalms:71:4 @ Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

rsv@Psalms:71:10 @ For my enemies speak concerning me, those who watch for my life consult together,

rsv@Psalms:71:16 @ With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come, I will praise thy righteousness, thine alone.

rsv@Psalms:71:19 @ and thy righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like thee?

rsv@Psalms:71:20 @ Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again; from the depths of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.

rsv@Psalms:71:22 @ I will also praise thee with the harp for thy faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to thee with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:71:23 @ My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to thee; my soul also, which thou hast rescued.

rsv@Psalms:72:2 @ Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!

rsv@Psalms:72:3 @ May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!

rsv@Psalms:72:4 @ Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!

rsv@Psalms:72:5 @ May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor!

rsv@Psalms:72:6 @ May he live while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!

rsv@Psalms:72:8 @ In his days may righteousness flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!

rsv@Psalms:72:10 @ May his foes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!

rsv@Psalms:72:11 @ May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute, may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!

rsv@Psalms:72:14 @ He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

rsv@Psalms:72:15 @ From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight.

rsv@Psalms:72:16 @ Long may he live, may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!

rsv@Psalms:72:17 @ May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may men blossom forth from the cities like the grass of the field!

rsv@Psalms:72:18 @ May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!

rsv@Psalms:72:19 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

rsv@Psalms:72:20 @ Blessed be his glorious name for ever; may his glory fill the whole earth! Amen and Amen! [ (Psalms strkjv@72:21) The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. ]

rsv@Psalms:73:5 @ For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.

rsv@Psalms:73:8 @ Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.

rsv@Psalms:73:9 @ They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

rsv@Psalms:73:13 @ Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

rsv@Psalms:73:19 @ Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.

rsv@Psalms:73:20 @ How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

rsv@Psalms:73:21 @ They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.

rsv@Psalms:73:24 @ Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand.

rsv@Psalms:73:26 @ Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.

rsv@Psalms:73:27 @ My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

rsv@Psalms:74:2 @ O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

rsv@Psalms:74:4 @ Direct thy steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

rsv@Psalms:74:5 @ Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place; they set up their own signs for signs.

rsv@Psalms:74:6 @ At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

rsv@Psalms:74:8 @ They set thy sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.

rsv@Psalms:74:9 @ They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

rsv@Psalms:74:15 @ Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

rsv@Psalms:74:17 @ Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.

rsv@Psalms:74:19 @ Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles thy name.

rsv@Psalms:74:21 @ Have regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

rsv@Psalms:74:23 @ Arise, O God, plead thy cause; remember how the impious scoff at thee all the day! [ (Psalms strkjv@74:24) Do not forget the clamor of thy foes, the uproar of thy adversaries which goes up continually! ]

rsv@Psalms:75:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:75:7 @ For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;

rsv@Psalms:75:8 @ but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

rsv@Psalms:75:10 @ But I will rejoice for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. [ (Psalms strkjv@75:11) All the horns of the wicked he will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. ]

rsv@Psalms:76:3 @ His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

rsv@Psalms:76:5 @ Glorious art thou, more majestic than the everlasting mountains.

rsv@Psalms:76:10 @ when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:76:11 @ Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.

rsv@Psalms:76:12 @ Make your vows to the LORD your God, and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared, [ (Psalms strkjv@76:13) who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is terrible to the kings of the earth. ]

rsv@Psalms:77:3 @ In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

rsv@Psalms:77:9 @ Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?

rsv@Psalms:77:15 @ Thou art the God who workest wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:77:18 @ The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; thy arrows flashed on every side.

rsv@Psalms:77:20 @ Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen. [ (Psalms strkjv@77:21) Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ]

rsv@Psalms:78:6 @ He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;

rsv@Psalms:78:10 @ The E'phraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

rsv@Psalms:78:12 @ They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.

rsv@Psalms:78:16 @ He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

rsv@Psalms:78:18 @ Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

rsv@Psalms:78:19 @ They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

rsv@Psalms:78:20 @ They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

rsv@Psalms:78:24 @ Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;

rsv@Psalms:78:28 @ he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;

rsv@Psalms:78:32 @ the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them, and laid low the picked men of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:78:33 @ In spite of all this they still sinned; despite his wonders they did not believe.

rsv@Psalms:78:35 @ When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.

rsv@Psalms:78:37 @ But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

rsv@Psalms:78:39 @ Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.

rsv@Psalms:78:40 @ He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

rsv@Psalms:78:41 @ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

rsv@Psalms:78:42 @ They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:78:44 @ when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zo'an.

rsv@Psalms:78:46 @ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

rsv@Psalms:78:48 @ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

rsv@Psalms:78:50 @ He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.

rsv@Psalms:78:51 @ He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

rsv@Psalms:78:53 @ Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

rsv@Psalms:78:54 @ He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

rsv@Psalms:78:56 @ He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

rsv@Psalms:78:57 @ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,

rsv@Psalms:78:59 @ For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

rsv@Psalms:78:65 @ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

rsv@Psalms:78:67 @ And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.

rsv@Psalms:78:69 @ but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.

rsv@Psalms:78:72 @ from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance. [ (Psalms strkjv@78:73) With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand. ]

rsv@Psalms:79:3 @ They have given the bodies of thy servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:79:9 @ Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.

rsv@Psalms:79:11 @ Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

rsv@Psalms:79:12 @ Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!

rsv@Psalms:80:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

rsv@Psalms:80:2 @ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

rsv@Psalms:80:4 @ Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

rsv@Psalms:80:7 @ Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

rsv@Psalms:80:8 @ Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

rsv@Psalms:80:11 @ The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

rsv@Psalms:80:12 @ it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.

rsv@Psalms:80:14 @ The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

rsv@Psalms:80:19 @ Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name! [ (Psalms strkjv@80:20) Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved! ]

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:81:15 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.

rsv@Psalms:81:16 @ Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@81:17) I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." ]

rsv@Psalms:82:4 @ Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

rsv@Psalms:82:5 @ Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

rsv@Psalms:82:6 @ They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

rsv@Psalms:82:8 @ nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince." [ (Psalms strkjv@82:9) Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations! ]

rsv@Psalms:83:3 @ For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.

rsv@Psalms:83:4 @ They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.

rsv@Psalms:83:7 @ the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

rsv@Psalms:83:11 @ who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

rsv@Psalms:83:12 @ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,

rsv@Psalms:83:13 @ who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."

rsv@Psalms:83:15 @ As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

rsv@Psalms:83:16 @ so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!

rsv@Psalms:83:17 @ Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:84:3 @ My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

rsv@Psalms:84:4 @ Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.

rsv@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:84:6 @ Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

rsv@Psalms:84:11 @ For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

rsv@Psalms:84:12 @ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly. [ (Psalms strkjv@84:13) O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee! ]

rsv@Psalms:85:2 @ LORD, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:85:5 @ Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away thy indignation toward us!

rsv@Psalms:85:11 @ Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

rsv@Psalms:85:12 @ Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.

rsv@Psalms:85:13 @ Yea, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase. [ (Psalms strkjv@85:14) Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way. ]

rsv@Psalms:86:3 @ Preserve my life, for I am godly; save thy servant who trusts in thee. Thou art my God;

rsv@Psalms:86:11 @ For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou alone art God.

rsv@Psalms:86:15 @ O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seek my life, and they do not set thee before them.

rsv@Psalms:86:16 @ But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:87:3 @ the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:87:6 @ And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.

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:88:4 @ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:88:8 @ Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:88:9 @ Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

rsv@Psalms:88:11 @ Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:88:12 @ Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon?

rsv@Psalms:88:13 @ Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

rsv@Psalms:88:14 @ But I, O LORD, cry to thee; in the morning my prayer comes before thee.

rsv@Psalms:88:16 @ Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.

rsv@Psalms:88:17 @ Thy wrath has swept over me; thy dread assaults destroy me.

rsv@Psalms:88:18 @ They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in upon me together. [ (Psalms strkjv@88:19) Thou hast caused lover and friend to shun me; my companions are in darkness. ]

rsv@Psalms:89:2 @ I will sing of thy steadfast love, O LORD, for ever; with my mouth I will proclaim thy faithfulness to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:89:3 @ For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:89:5 @ `your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.'" [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:6 @ Let the heavens praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!

rsv@Psalms:89:7 @ For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:89:8 @ a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and terrible above all that are round about him?

rsv@Psalms:89:9 @ O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O LORD, with thy faithfulness round about thee?

rsv@Psalms:89:10 @ Thou dost rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, thou stillest them.

rsv@Psalms:89:11 @ Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass, thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.

rsv@Psalms:89:15 @ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before thee.

rsv@Psalms:89:16 @ Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance,

rsv@Psalms:89:17 @ who exult in thy name all the day, and extol thy righteousness.

rsv@Psalms:89:24 @ I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

rsv@Psalms:89:25 @ My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

rsv@Psalms:89:28 @ And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:89:30 @ I will establish his line for ever and his throne as the days of the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:89:31 @ If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,

rsv@Psalms:89:32 @ if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

rsv@Psalms:89:33 @ then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;

rsv@Psalms:89:34 @ but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:89:36 @ Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.

rsv@Psalms:89:38 @ Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure." [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:42 @ All that pass by despoil him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

rsv@Psalms:89:43 @ Thou hast exalted the right hand of his foes; thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.

rsv@Psalms:89:50 @ Lord, where is thy steadfast love of old, which by thy faithfulness thou didst swear to David?

rsv@Psalms:89:51 @ Remember, O Lord, how thy servant is scorned; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,

rsv@Psalms:89:52 @ with which thy enemies taunt, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of thy anointed. [ (Psalms strkjv@89:53) Blessed be the LORD for ever! Amen and Amen. ]

rsv@Psalms:90:1 @ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

rsv@Psalms:90:4 @ Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"

rsv@Psalms:90:5 @ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

rsv@Psalms:90:7 @ in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.

rsv@Psalms:90:9 @ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

rsv@Psalms:90:11 @ The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

rsv@Psalms:90:17 @ Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children. [ (Psalms strkjv@90:18) Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. ]

rsv@Psalms:91:1 @ He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

rsv@Psalms:91:2 @ will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."

rsv@Psalms:91:3 @ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;

rsv@Psalms:91:4 @ he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

rsv@Psalms:91:5 @ You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

rsv@Psalms:91:6 @ nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

rsv@Psalms:91:8 @ You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:91:12 @ On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

rsv@Psalms:91:14 @ Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.

rsv@Psalms:91:15 @ When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue him and honor him.

rsv@Psalms:92:2 @ It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to thy name, O Most High;

rsv@Psalms:92:3 @ to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, and thy faithfulness by night,

rsv@Psalms:92:8 @ that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

rsv@Psalms:92:10 @ For, lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thy enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

rsv@Psalms:92:11 @ But thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; thou hast poured over me fresh oil.

rsv@Psalms:92:12 @ My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

rsv@Psalms:92:15 @ They still bring forth fruit in old age, they are ever full of sap and green, [ (Psalms strkjv@92:16) to show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. ]

rsv@Psalms:93:1 @ The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved;

rsv@Psalms:93:2 @ thy throne is established from of old; thou art from everlasting.

rsv@Psalms:93:4 @ Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!

rsv@Psalms:93:5 @ Thy decrees are very sure; holiness befits thy house, O LORD, for evermore.

rsv@Psalms:94:2 @ Rise up, O judge of the earth; render to the proud their deserts!

rsv@Psalms:94:6 @ They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

rsv@Psalms:94:7 @ and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."

rsv@Psalms:94:8 @ Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

rsv@Psalms:94:9 @ He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

rsv@Psalms:94:10 @ He who chastens the nations, does he not chastise? He who teaches men knowledge,

rsv@Psalms:94:12 @ Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O LORD, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law

rsv@Psalms:94:13 @ to give him respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:94:16 @ Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

rsv@Psalms:94:19 @ When the cares of my heart are many, thy consolations cheer my soul.

rsv@Psalms:94:23 @ He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.

rsv@Psalms:95:2 @ Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

rsv@Psalms:95:8 @ Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

rsv@Psalms:95:9 @ when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

rsv@Psalms:95:11 @ Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.

rsv@Psalms:96:2 @ Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.

rsv@Psalms:96:3 @ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!

rsv@Psalms:96:5 @ For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the LORD made the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:96:6 @ Honor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

rsv@Psalms:96:7 @ Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!

rsv@Psalms:96:10 @ Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."

rsv@Psalms:96:12 @ let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy

rsv@Psalms:96:13 @ before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.

rsv@Psalms:97:2 @ Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

rsv@Psalms:97:3 @ Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.

rsv@Psalms:97:4 @ His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles.

rsv@Psalms:97:6 @ The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory.

rsv@Psalms:97:7 @ All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.

rsv@Psalms:97:10 @ The LORD loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:98:4 @ He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

rsv@Psalms:98:5 @ Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

rsv@Psalms:98:6 @ Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!

rsv@Psalms:98:9 @ Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together [ (Psalms strkjv@98:10) before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. ]

rsv@Psalms:99:1 @ The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

rsv@Psalms:99:2 @ The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:99:4 @ Mighty King, lover of justice, thou hast established equity; thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They cried to the LORD, and he answered them.

rsv@Psalms:99:7 @ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the statutes that he gave them.

rsv@Psalms:100:3 @ Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

rsv@Psalms:100:5 @ Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! [ (Psalms strkjv@100:6) For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations. ]

rsv@Psalms:101:3 @ I will give heed to the way that is blameless. Oh when wilt thou come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;

rsv@Psalms:101:4 @ I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me.

rsv@Psalms:101:5 @ Perverseness of heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

rsv@Psalms:101:6 @ Him who slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. The man of haughty looks and arrogant heart I will not endure.

rsv@Psalms:101:7 @ I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.

rsv@Psalms:101:8 @ No man who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no man who utters lies shall continue in my presence. [ (Psalms strkjv@101:9) Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD. ]

rsv@Psalms:102:3 @ Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!

rsv@Psalms:102:4 @ For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

rsv@Psalms:102:6 @ Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.

rsv@Psalms:102:7 @ I am like a vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

rsv@Psalms:102:9 @ All the day my enemies taunt me, those who deride me use my name for a curse.

rsv@Psalms:102:10 @ For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,

rsv@Psalms:102:13 @ But thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:102:15 @ For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.

rsv@Psalms:102:18 @ he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.

rsv@Psalms:102:23 @ when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:102:27 @ They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will all wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away;

rsv@Psalms:102:28 @ but thou art the same, and thy years have no end. [ (Psalms strkjv@102:29) The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee. ]

rsv@Psalms:103:2 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

rsv@Psalms:103:3 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

rsv@Psalms:103:4 @ who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

rsv@Psalms:103:6 @ who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

rsv@Psalms:103:7 @ The LORD works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.

rsv@Psalms:103:8 @ He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:103:11 @ He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.

rsv@Psalms:103:13 @ as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

rsv@Psalms:103:14 @ As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him.

rsv@Psalms:103:16 @ As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

rsv@Psalms:103:17 @ for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

rsv@Psalms:103:18 @ But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

rsv@Psalms:103:20 @ The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

rsv@Psalms:103:21 @ Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word!

rsv@Psalms:103:22 @ Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will! [ (Psalms strkjv@103:23) Bless the LORD, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul! ]

rsv@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty,

rsv@Psalms:104:2 @ who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent,

rsv@Psalms:104:3 @ who hast laid the beams of thy chambers on the waters, who makest the clouds thy chariot, who ridest on the wings of the wind,

rsv@Psalms:104:4 @ who makest the winds thy messengers, fire and flame thy ministers.

rsv@Psalms:104:10 @ Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills,

rsv@Psalms:104:11 @ they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.

rsv@Psalms:104:12 @ By them the birds of the air have their habitation; they sing among the branches.

rsv@Psalms:104:13 @ From thy lofty abode thou waterest the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy work.

rsv@Psalms:104:16 @ The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted.

rsv@Psalms:104:17 @ In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.

rsv@Psalms:104:20 @ Thou makest darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

rsv@Psalms:104:22 @ When the sun rises, they get them away and lie down in their dens.

rsv@Psalms:104:23 @ Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

rsv@Psalms:104:24 @ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.

rsv@Psalms:104:27 @ These all look to thee, to give them their food in due season.

rsv@Psalms:104:28 @ When thou givest to them, they gather it up; when thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good things.

rsv@Psalms:104:29 @ When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

rsv@Psalms:104:30 @ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.

rsv@Psalms:104:32 @ who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!

rsv@Psalms:104:35 @ Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:105:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples!

rsv@Psalms:105:2 @ Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!

rsv@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually!

rsv@Psalms:105:5 @ Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,

rsv@Psalms:105:6 @ O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!

rsv@Psalms:105:14 @ he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,

rsv@Psalms:105:15 @ saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"

rsv@Psalms:105:19 @ until what he had said came to pass the word of the LORD tested him.

rsv@Psalms:105:20 @ The king sent and released him, the ruler of the peoples set him free;

rsv@Psalms:105:21 @ he made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions,

rsv@Psalms:105:22 @ to instruct his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

rsv@Psalms:105:24 @ And the LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their foes.

rsv@Psalms:105:26 @ He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

rsv@Psalms:105:27 @ They wrought his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.

rsv@Psalms:105:28 @ He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.

rsv@Psalms:105:31 @ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

rsv@Psalms:105:33 @ He smote their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

rsv@Psalms:105:37 @ Then he led forth Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

rsv@Psalms:105:41 @ He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; it flowed through the desert like a river.

rsv@Psalms:105:43 @ So he led forth his people with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

rsv@Psalms:105:44 @ And he gave them the lands of the nations; and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,

rsv@Psalms:105:45 @ to the end that they should keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise the LORD! O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:106:3 @ Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

rsv@Psalms:106:4 @ Remember me, O LORD, when thou showest favor to thy people; help me when thou deliverest them;

rsv@Psalms:106:5 @ that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy heritage.

rsv@Psalms:106:9 @ He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry; and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

rsv@Psalms:106:11 @ And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.

rsv@Psalms:106:14 @ But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

rsv@Psalms:106:16 @ When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:106:23 @ Therefore he said he would destroy them-- had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

rsv@Psalms:106:24 @ Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

rsv@Psalms:106:26 @ Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

rsv@Psalms:106:27 @ and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.

rsv@Psalms:106:28 @ Then they attached themselves to the Ba'al of Pe'or, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

rsv@Psalms:106:31 @ And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation for ever.

rsv@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered him at the waters of Mer'ibah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

rsv@Psalms:106:34 @ They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,

rsv@Psalms:106:42 @ Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

rsv@Psalms:106:43 @ Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes, and were brought low through their iniquity.

rsv@Psalms:106:44 @ Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

rsv@Psalms:106:48 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:107:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:107:3 @ and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

rsv@Psalms:107:4 @ Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;

rsv@Psalms:107:6 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:9 @ For he satisfies him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

rsv@Psalms:107:10 @ Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

rsv@Psalms:107:13 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:14 @ he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder.

rsv@Psalms:107:17 @ Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

rsv@Psalms:107:18 @ they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

rsv@Psalms:107:19 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:20 @ he sent forth his word, and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.

rsv@Psalms:107:22 @ And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!

rsv@Psalms:107:23 @ Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;

rsv@Psalms:107:25 @ For he commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

rsv@Psalms:107:28 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:29 @ he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

rsv@Psalms:107:30 @ Then they were glad because they had quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.

rsv@Psalms:107:33 @ He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,

rsv@Psalms:107:34 @ a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

rsv@Psalms:107:35 @ He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

rsv@Psalms:107:36 @ And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in;

rsv@Psalms:107:38 @ By his blessing they multiply greatly; and he does not let their cattle decrease.

rsv@Psalms:107:39 @ When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

rsv@Psalms:107:40 @ he pours contempt upon princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

rsv@Psalms:107:41 @ but he raises up the needy out of affliction, and makes their families like flocks.

rsv@Psalms:107:42 @ The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops its mouth.

rsv@Psalms:107:43 @ Whoever is wise, let him give heed to these things; let men consider the steadfast love of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:108:4 @ I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the peoples, I will sing praises to thee among the nations.

rsv@Psalms:108:5 @ For thy steadfast love is great above the heavens, thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

rsv@Psalms:108:12 @ Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.

rsv@Psalms:108:13 @ O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man! [ (Psalms strkjv@108:14) With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. ]

rsv@Psalms:109:3 @ For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

rsv@Psalms:109:4 @ They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.

rsv@Psalms:109:10 @ May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

rsv@Psalms:109:13 @ Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!

rsv@Psalms:109:17 @ For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.

rsv@Psalms:109:18 @ He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!

rsv@Psalms:109:19 @ He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

rsv@Psalms:109:25 @ My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

rsv@Psalms:109:29 @ Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad!

rsv@Psalms:110:2 @ The LORD says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool."

rsv@Psalms:110:3 @ The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your foes!

rsv@Psalms:110:4 @ Your people will offer themselves freely on the day you lead your host upon the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning like dew your youth will come to you.

rsv@Psalms:110:5 @ The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchiz'edek."

rsv@Psalms:110:7 @ He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. [ (Psalms strkjv@110:8) He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head. ]

rsv@Psalms:111:3 @ Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:111:5 @ He provides food for those who fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:111:8 @ they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.

rsv@Psalms:111:10 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who practice it. His praise endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:112:1 @ Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

rsv@Psalms:112:2 @ His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

rsv@Psalms:112:3 @ Wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:112:4 @ Light rises in the darkness for the upright; the LORD is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

rsv@Psalms:112:8 @ His heart is steady, he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his adversaries.

rsv@Psalms:112:9 @ He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn is exalted in honor.

rsv@Psalms:112:10 @ The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked man comes to nought.

rsv@Psalms:113:2 @ Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore!

rsv@Psalms:113:7 @ He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

rsv@Psalms:113:8 @ to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.

rsv@Psalms:113:9 @ He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:114:7 @ Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

rsv@Psalms:115:1 @ Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory, for the sake of thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness!

rsv@Psalms:115:3 @ Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

rsv@Psalms:115:5 @ They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.

rsv@Psalms:115:6 @ They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.

rsv@Psalms:115:12 @ The LORD has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;

rsv@Psalms:115:13 @ he will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

rsv@Psalms:115:15 @ May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth!

rsv@Psalms:115:18 @ But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:116:3 @ The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

rsv@Psalms:116:4 @ Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I beseech thee, save my life!"

rsv@Psalms:116:6 @ The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.

rsv@Psalms:116:7 @ Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

rsv@Psalms:116:8 @ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;

rsv@Psalms:116:14 @ I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.

rsv@Psalms:116:18 @ I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,

rsv@Psalms:117:1 @ Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!

rsv@Psalms:117:2 @ For great is his steadfast love toward us; and the faithfulness of the LORD endures for ever. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:118:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:118:2 @ Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@Psalms:118:3 @ Let the house of Aaron say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@Psalms:118:4 @ Let those who fear the LORD say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@Psalms:118:5 @ Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.

rsv@Psalms:118:9 @ It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

rsv@Psalms:118:12 @ They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!

rsv@Psalms:118:15 @ Hark, glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,

rsv@Psalms:118:16 @ the right hand of the LORD is exalted, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"

rsv@Psalms:118:19 @ Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:118:23 @ This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

rsv@Psalms:118:25 @ Save us, we beseech thee, O LORD! O LORD, we beseech thee, give us success!

rsv@Psalms:118:26 @ Blessed be he who enters in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:118:27 @ The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar!

rsv@Psalms:118:29 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:119:1 @ Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:119:2 @ Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

rsv@Psalms:119:5 @ O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:6 @ Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:7 @ I will praise thee with an upright heart, when I learn thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:8 @ I will observe thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!

rsv@Psalms:119:12 @ Blessed be thou, O LORD; teach me thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:13 @ With my lips I declare all the ordinances of thy mouth.

rsv@Psalms:119:14 @ In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

rsv@Psalms:119:15 @ I will meditate on thy precepts, and fix my eyes on thy ways.

rsv@Psalms:119:16 @ I will delight in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:18 @ Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:20 @ My soul is consumed with longing for thy ordinances at all times.

rsv@Psalms:119:21 @ Thou dost rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from thy commandments;

rsv@Psalms:119:22 @ take away from me their scorn and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:23 @ Even though princes sit plotting against me, thy servant will meditate on thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:24 @ Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counselors.

rsv@Psalms:119:25 @ My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:26 @ When I told of my ways, thou didst answer me; teach me thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:30 @ I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I set thy ordinances before me.

rsv@Psalms:119:31 @ I cleave to thy testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame!

rsv@Psalms:119:32 @ I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!

rsv@Psalms:119:33 @ Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I will keep it to the end.

rsv@Psalms:119:36 @ Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to gain!

rsv@Psalms:119:37 @ Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; and give me life in thy ways.

rsv@Psalms:119:39 @ Turn away the reproach which I dread; for thy ordinances are good.

rsv@Psalms:119:40 @ Behold, I long for thy precepts; in thy righteousness give me life!

rsv@Psalms:119:43 @ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in thy ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:46 @ I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;

rsv@Psalms:119:48 @ I revere thy commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:50 @ This is my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life.

rsv@Psalms:119:51 @ Godless men utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:52 @ When I think of thy ordinances from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:119:53 @ Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:54 @ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

rsv@Psalms:119:56 @ This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:59 @ When I think of thy ways, I turn my feet to thy testimonies;

rsv@Psalms:119:62 @ At midnight I rise to praise thee, because of thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:64 @ The earth, O LORD, is full of thy steadfast love; teach me thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:68 @ Thou art good and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:69 @ The godless besmear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep thy precepts;

rsv@Psalms:119:71 @ It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:72 @ The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

rsv@Psalms:119:75 @ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

rsv@Psalms:119:78 @ Let the godless be put to shame, because they have subverted me with guile; as for me, I will meditate on thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:79 @ Let those who fear thee turn to me, that they may know thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:80 @ May my heart be blameless in thy statutes, that I may not be put to shame!

rsv@Psalms:119:81 @ My soul languishes for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:82 @ My eyes fail with watching for thy promise; I ask, "When wilt thou comfort me?"

rsv@Psalms:119:83 @ For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:85 @ Godless men have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:88 @ In thy steadfast love spare my life, that I may keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

rsv@Psalms:119:90 @ Thy faithfulness endures to all generations; thou hast established the earth, and it stands fast.

rsv@Psalms:119:95 @ The wicked lie in wait to destroy me; but I consider thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:98 @ Thy commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.

rsv@Psalms:119:99 @ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.

rsv@Psalms:119:102 @ I do not turn aside from thy ordinances, for thou hast taught me.

rsv@Psalms:119:106 @ I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:108 @ Accept my offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me thy ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:111 @ Thy testimonies are my heritage for ever; yea, they are the joy of my heart.

rsv@Psalms:119:112 @ I incline my heart to perform thy statutes for ever, to the end.

rsv@Psalms:119:117 @ Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for thy statutes continually!

rsv@Psalms:119:118 @ Thou dost spurn all who go astray from thy statutes; yea, their cunning is in vain.

rsv@Psalms:119:119 @ All the wicked of the earth thou dost count as dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:120 @ My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

rsv@Psalms:119:121 @ I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

rsv@Psalms:119:122 @ Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the godless oppress me.

rsv@Psalms:119:123 @ My eyes fail with watching for thy salvation, and for the fulfilment of thy righteous promise.

rsv@Psalms:119:124 @ Deal with thy servant according to thy steadfast love, and teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:125 @ I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies!

rsv@Psalms:119:129 @ Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.

rsv@Psalms:119:130 @ The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

rsv@Psalms:119:134 @ Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:135 @ Make thy face shine upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:136 @ My eyes shed streams of tears, because men do not keep thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:138 @ Thou hast appointed thy testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:119:139 @ My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:140 @ Thy promise is well tried, and thy servant loves it.

rsv@Psalms:119:141 @ I am small and despised, yet I do not forget thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:142 @ Thy righteousness is righteous for ever, and thy law is true.

rsv@Psalms:119:144 @ Thy testimonies are righteous for ever; give me understanding that I may live.

rsv@Psalms:119:145 @ With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:146 @ I cry to thee; save me, that I may observe thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:148 @ My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate upon thy promise.

rsv@Psalms:119:149 @ Hear my voice in thy steadfast love; O LORD, in thy justice preserve my life.

rsv@Psalms:119:152 @ Long have I known from thy testimonies that thou hast founded them for ever.

rsv@Psalms:119:155 @ Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:157 @ Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:158 @ I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep thy commands.

rsv@Psalms:119:159 @ Consider how I love thy precepts! Preserve my life according to thy steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:119:160 @ The sum of thy word is truth; and every one of thy righteous ordinances endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:119:161 @ Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:164 @ Seven times a day I praise thee for thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:167 @ My soul keeps thy testimonies; I love them exceedingly.

rsv@Psalms:119:168 @ I keep thy precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before thee.

rsv@Psalms:119:171 @ My lips will pour forth praise that thou dost teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:175 @ Let me live, that I may praise thee, and let thy ordinances help me.

rsv@Psalms:120:2 @ In my distress I cry to the LORD, that he may answer me:

rsv@Psalms:120:6 @ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

rsv@Psalms:121:2 @ I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?

rsv@Psalms:121:3 @ My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

rsv@Psalms:122:3 @ Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!

rsv@Psalms:122:5 @ to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:122:6 @ There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.

rsv@Psalms:123:2 @ To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!

rsv@Psalms:123:3 @ Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he have mercy upon us.

rsv@Psalms:124:7 @ Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!

rsv@Psalms:124:8 @ We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped! [ (Psalms strkjv@124:9) Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. ]

rsv@Psalms:125:2 @ Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever.

rsv@Psalms:125:4 @ For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to do wrong.

rsv@Psalms:126:2 @ When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

rsv@Psalms:126:5 @ Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb!

rsv@Psalms:126:6 @ May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy! [ (Psalms strkjv@126:7) He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. ]

rsv@Psalms:127:2 @ Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

rsv@Psalms:127:3 @ It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

rsv@Psalms:127:5 @ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one's youth. [ (Psalms strkjv@127:6) Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. ]

rsv@Psalms:128:2 @ Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

rsv@Psalms:128:5 @ Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:128:6 @ The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! [ (Psalms strkjv@128:7) May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel! ]

rsv@Psalms:129:8 @ with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his bosom, [ (Psalms strkjv@129:9) while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!" ]

rsv@Psalms:130:4 @ If thou, O LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

rsv@Psalms:130:5 @ But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

rsv@Psalms:130:8 @ O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption. [ (Psalms strkjv@130:9) And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. ]

rsv@Psalms:131:2 @ O LORD, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

rsv@Psalms:132:5 @ I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

rsv@Psalms:132:9 @ Arise, O LORD, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might.

rsv@Psalms:132:10 @ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

rsv@Psalms:132:13 @ If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons also for ever shall sit upon your throne."

rsv@Psalms:132:14 @ For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

rsv@Psalms:132:15 @ "This is my resting place for ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

rsv@Psalms:132:16 @ I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

rsv@Psalms:132:17 @ Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.

rsv@Psalms:132:18 @ There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. [ (Psalms strkjv@132:19) His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown will shed its luster." ]

rsv@Psalms:133:3 @ It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, upon the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! [ (Psalms strkjv@133:4) It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:134:2 @ Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:134:3 @ Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD! [ (Psalms strkjv@134:4) May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:135:4 @ For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

rsv@Psalms:135:6 @ Whatever the LORD pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

rsv@Psalms:135:7 @ He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

rsv@Psalms:135:11 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

rsv@Psalms:135:13 @ Thy name, O LORD, endures for ever, thy renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.

rsv@Psalms:135:16 @ They have mouths, but they speak not, they have eyes, but they see not,

rsv@Psalms:135:19 @ O house of Israel, bless the LORD! O house of Aaron, bless the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:135:20 @ O house of Levi, bless the LORD! You that fear the LORD, bless the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:135:21 @ Blessed be the LORD from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:136:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:2 @ O give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:3 @ O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:4 @ to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:5 @ to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:6 @ to him who spread out the earth upon the waters, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:7 @ to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:8 @ the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:9 @ the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:10 @ to him who smote the first-born of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:11 @ and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:12 @ with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:13 @ to him who divided the Red Sea in sunder, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:14 @ and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:15 @ but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:16 @ to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:17 @ to him who smote great kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:18 @ and slew famous kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:19 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:20 @ and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:21 @ and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:22 @ a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:23 @ It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:24 @ and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:25 @ he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:26 @ O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:137:2 @ On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

rsv@Psalms:137:6 @ Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

rsv@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!"

rsv@Psalms:137:8 @ O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!

rsv@Psalms:137:9 @ Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

rsv@Psalms:138:3 @ I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word.

rsv@Psalms:138:8 @ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me. [ (Psalms strkjv@138:9) The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands. ]

rsv@Psalms:139:3 @ Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar.

rsv@Psalms:139:4 @ Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

rsv@Psalms:139:5 @ Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

rsv@Psalms:139:6 @ Thou dost beset me behind and before, and layest thy hand upon me.

rsv@Psalms:139:8 @ Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

rsv@Psalms:139:12 @ If I say, "Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,"

rsv@Psalms:139:13 @ even the darkness is not dark to thee, the night is bright as the day; for darkness is as light with thee.

rsv@Psalms:139:15 @ I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;

rsv@Psalms:139:17 @ Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

rsv@Psalms:139:21 @ men who maliciously defy thee, who lift themselves up against thee for evil!

rsv@Psalms:139:23 @ I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:140:2 @ Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,

rsv@Psalms:140:5 @ Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.

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:140:12 @ Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

rsv@Psalms:140:13 @ I know that the LORD maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy. [ (Psalms strkjv@140:14) Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name; the upright shall dwell in thy presence. ]

rsv@Psalms:141:5 @ Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!

rsv@Psalms:141:6 @ Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

rsv@Psalms:141:8 @ As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:141:9 @ But my eyes are toward thee, O LORD God; in thee I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!

rsv@Psalms:141:10 @ Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers! [ (Psalms strkjv@141:11) Let the wicked together fall into their own nets, while I escape. ]

rsv@Psalms:142:4 @ When my spirit is faint, thou knowest my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

rsv@Psalms:142:5 @ I look to the right and watch, but there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me, no man cares for me.

rsv@Psalms:143:2 @ Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my supplications! In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness!

rsv@Psalms:143:4 @ For the enemy has pursued me; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

rsv@Psalms:143:8 @ Make haste to answer me, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:143:10 @ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies! I have fled to thee for refuge!

rsv@Psalms:143:12 @ For thy name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In thy righteousness bring me out of trouble! [ (Psalms strkjv@143:13) And in thy steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am thy servant. ]

rsv@Psalms:144:2 @ Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

rsv@Psalms:144:3 @ my rock and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues the peoples under him.

rsv@Psalms:144:8 @ Stretch forth thy hand from on high, rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of aliens,

rsv@Psalms:144:9 @ whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

rsv@Psalms:144:11 @ who givest victory to kings, who rescuest David thy servant.

rsv@Psalms:144:12 @ Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

rsv@Psalms:144:15 @ may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mischance or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! [ (Psalms strkjv@144:16) Happy the people to whom such blessings fall! Happy the people whose God is the LORD! ]

rsv@Psalms:145:2 @ I will extol thee, my God and King, and bless thy name for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:145:3 @ Every day I will bless thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:145:4 @ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

rsv@Psalms:145:6 @ On the glorious splendor of thy majesty, and on thy wondrous works, I will meditate.

rsv@Psalms:145:7 @ Men shall proclaim the might of thy terrible acts, and I will declare thy greatness.

rsv@Psalms:145:8 @ They shall pour forth the fame of thy abundant goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

rsv@Psalms:145:11 @ All thy works shall give thanks to thee, O LORD, and all thy saints shall bless thee!

rsv@Psalms:145:14 @ Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations. The LORD is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds.

rsv@Psalms:145:15 @ The LORD upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.

rsv@Psalms:145:16 @ The eyes of all look to thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

rsv@Psalms:145:17 @ Thou openest thy hand, thou satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

rsv@Psalms:145:20 @ He fulfils the desire of all who fear him, he also hears their cry, and saves them.

rsv@Psalms:145:21 @ The LORD preserves all who love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. [ (Psalms strkjv@145:22) My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:146:2 @ I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.

rsv@Psalms:146:3 @ Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

rsv@Psalms:146:7 @ who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

rsv@Psalms:146:8 @ the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

rsv@Psalms:146:9 @ The LORD watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

rsv@Psalms:147:1 @ Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly.

rsv@Psalms:147:4 @ He determines the number of the stars, he gives to all of them their names.

rsv@Psalms:147:8 @ He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.

rsv@Psalms:147:9 @ He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.

rsv@Psalms:147:11 @ but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:147:13 @ For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your sons within you.

rsv@Psalms:147:14 @ He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.

rsv@Psalms:147:16 @ He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.

rsv@Psalms:147:18 @ He sends forth his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.

rsv@Psalms:147:19 @ He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel.

rsv@Psalms:147:20 @ He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:148:4 @ Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

rsv@Psalms:148:6 @ And he established them for ever and ever; he fixed their bounds which cannot be passed.

rsv@Psalms:148:9 @ Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!

rsv@Psalms:148:11 @ Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!

rsv@Psalms:149:4 @ For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

rsv@Psalms:149:5 @ Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their couches.

rsv@Psalms:149:6 @ Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,

rsv@Psalms:149:7 @ to wreak vengeance on the nations and chastisement on the peoples,

rsv@Psalms:149:8 @ to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

rsv@Psalms:149:9 @ to execute on them the judgment written! This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:150:2 @ Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his exceeding greatness!

rsv@Psalms:150:6 @ Let everything that breathes praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

rsv@Proverbs:1:3 @ receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

rsv@Proverbs:1:6 @ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

rsv@Proverbs:1:7 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

rsv@Proverbs:1:13 @ we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

rsv@Proverbs:1:18 @ but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

rsv@Proverbs:1:19 @ Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.

rsv@Proverbs:1:20 @ Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice;

rsv@Proverbs:1:21 @ on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

rsv@Proverbs:1:22 @ "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

rsv@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,

rsv@Proverbs:1:27 @ when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

rsv@Proverbs:1:30 @ would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,

rsv@Proverbs:1:31 @ therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.

rsv@Proverbs:1:32 @ For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;

rsv@Proverbs:2:3 @ yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

rsv@Proverbs:2:4 @ if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;

rsv@Proverbs:2:6 @ For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

rsv@Proverbs:2:7 @ he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

rsv@Proverbs:2:8 @ guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.

rsv@Proverbs:2:9 @ Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

rsv@Proverbs:2:13 @ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

rsv@Proverbs:2:14 @ who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;

rsv@Proverbs:2:16 @ You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,

rsv@Proverbs:2:17 @ who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

rsv@Proverbs:2:18 @ for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;

rsv@Proverbs:3:3 @ Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:3:7 @ Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.

rsv@Proverbs:3:8 @ It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

rsv@Proverbs:3:11 @ My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,

rsv@Proverbs:3:12 @ for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

rsv@Proverbs:3:15 @ She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

rsv@Proverbs:3:16 @ Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

rsv@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

rsv@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

rsv@Proverbs:3:21 @ My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion; let them not escape from your sight,

rsv@Proverbs:3:25 @ Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes;

rsv@Proverbs:3:29 @ Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you.

rsv@Proverbs:3:33 @ The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:4:9 @ She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."

rsv@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

rsv@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

rsv@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

rsv@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.

rsv@Proverbs:4:25 @ Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

rsv@Proverbs:5:6 @ she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

rsv@Proverbs:5:9 @ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;

rsv@Proverbs:5:10 @ lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;

rsv@Proverbs:5:11 @ and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

rsv@Proverbs:5:12 @ and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

rsv@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

rsv@Proverbs:5:19 @ a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.

rsv@Proverbs:5:20 @ Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?

rsv@Proverbs:5:21 @ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.

rsv@Proverbs:5:22 @ The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

rsv@Proverbs:5:23 @ He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.

rsv@Proverbs:6:4 @ Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

rsv@Proverbs:6:8 @ she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.

rsv@Proverbs:6:10 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

rsv@Proverbs:6:12 @ A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

rsv@Proverbs:6:13 @ winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,

rsv@Proverbs:6:14 @ with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

rsv@Proverbs:6:16 @ There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:

rsv@Proverbs:6:17 @ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

rsv@Proverbs:6:18 @ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

rsv@Proverbs:6:19 @ a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.

rsv@Proverbs:6:24 @ to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

rsv@Proverbs:6:25 @ Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

rsv@Proverbs:6:26 @ for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

rsv@Proverbs:6:27 @ Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

rsv@Proverbs:6:29 @ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:6:30 @ Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?

rsv@Proverbs:6:32 @ He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

rsv@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

rsv@Proverbs:7:5 @ to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

rsv@Proverbs:7:9 @ in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

rsv@Proverbs:7:10 @ And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:12 @ now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

rsv@Proverbs:7:13 @ She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

rsv@Proverbs:7:14 @ "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;

rsv@Proverbs:7:17 @ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

rsv@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

rsv@Proverbs:7:21 @ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

rsv@Proverbs:7:22 @ All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

rsv@Proverbs:7:23 @ till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

rsv@Proverbs:8:1 @ Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?

rsv@Proverbs:8:2 @ On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;

rsv@Proverbs:8:3 @ beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

rsv@Proverbs:8:5 @ O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.

rsv@Proverbs:8:7 @ for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

rsv@Proverbs:8:11 @ for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

rsv@Proverbs:8:16 @ by me princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:8:18 @ Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.

rsv@Proverbs:8:20 @ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

rsv@Proverbs:8:21 @ endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.

rsv@Proverbs:8:23 @ Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:8:27 @ When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

rsv@Proverbs:8:28 @ when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,

rsv@Proverbs:8:29 @ when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

rsv@Proverbs:8:30 @ then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,

rsv@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

rsv@Proverbs:8:36 @ but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

rsv@Proverbs:9:3 @ She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,

rsv@Proverbs:9:6 @ Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight."

rsv@Proverbs:9:7 @ He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.

rsv@Proverbs:9:14 @ She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high places of the town,

rsv@Proverbs:9:18 @ But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

rsv@Proverbs:10:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

rsv@Proverbs:10:2 @ Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

rsv@Proverbs:10:3 @ The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:10:4 @ A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

rsv@Proverbs:10:5 @ A son who gathers in summer is prudent, but a son who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

rsv@Proverbs:10:6 @ Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

rsv@Proverbs:10:7 @ The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

rsv@Proverbs:10:10 @ He who winks the eye causes trouble, but he who boldly reproves makes peace.

rsv@Proverbs:10:12 @ Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

rsv@Proverbs:10:17 @ He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

rsv@Proverbs:10:19 @ When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.

rsv@Proverbs:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

rsv@Proverbs:10:24 @ What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

rsv@Proverbs:10:25 @ When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established for ever.

rsv@Proverbs:10:26 @ Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

rsv@Proverbs:10:28 @ The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nought.

rsv@Proverbs:10:29 @ The LORD is a stronghold to him whose way is upright, but destruction to evildoers.

rsv@Proverbs:11:2 @ When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.

rsv@Proverbs:11:3 @ The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

rsv@Proverbs:11:4 @ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

rsv@Proverbs:11:5 @ The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

rsv@Proverbs:11:6 @ The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

rsv@Proverbs:11:7 @ When the wicked dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nought.

rsv@Proverbs:11:9 @ With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

rsv@Proverbs:11:10 @ When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.

rsv@Proverbs:11:11 @ By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:11:12 @ He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

rsv@Proverbs:11:13 @ He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing hidden.

rsv@Proverbs:11:15 @ He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

rsv@Proverbs:11:16 @ A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

rsv@Proverbs:11:18 @ A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

rsv@Proverbs:11:19 @ He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

rsv@Proverbs:11:20 @ Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:11:23 @ The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked in wrath.

rsv@Proverbs:11:24 @ One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

rsv@Proverbs:11:26 @ The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.

rsv@Proverbs:11:27 @ He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.

rsv@Proverbs:11:28 @ He who trusts in his riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

rsv@Proverbs:11:29 @ He who troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:11:30 @ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but lawlessness takes away lives.

rsv@Proverbs:12:1 @ Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

rsv@Proverbs:12:2 @ A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

rsv@Proverbs:12:3 @ A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

rsv@Proverbs:12:4 @ A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

rsv@Proverbs:12:8 @ A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of perverse mind is despised.

rsv@Proverbs:12:11 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.

rsv@Proverbs:12:12 @ The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin, but the root of the righteous stands firm.

rsv@Proverbs:12:13 @ An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:12:14 @ From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

rsv@Proverbs:12:15 @ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

rsv@Proverbs:12:16 @ The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult.

rsv@Proverbs:12:17 @ He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

rsv@Proverbs:12:25 @ Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

rsv@Proverbs:12:28 @ In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.

rsv@Proverbs:13:1 @ A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

rsv@Proverbs:13:2 @ From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

rsv@Proverbs:13:3 @ He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:13:4 @ The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

rsv@Proverbs:13:5 @ A righteous man hates falsehood, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully.

rsv@Proverbs:13:6 @ Righteousness guards him whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:13:9 @ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

rsv@Proverbs:13:10 @ By insolence the heedless make strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

rsv@Proverbs:13:12 @ Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

rsv@Proverbs:13:13 @ He who despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who respects the commandment will be rewarded.

rsv@Proverbs:13:14 @ The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.

rsv@Proverbs:13:15 @ Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:13:17 @ A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

rsv@Proverbs:13:18 @ Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but he who heeds reproof is honored.

rsv@Proverbs:13:19 @ A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul; but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

rsv@Proverbs:13:20 @ He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

rsv@Proverbs:13:21 @ Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:13:22 @ A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:13:24 @ He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

rsv@Proverbs:14:2 @ He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

rsv@Proverbs:14:3 @ The talk of a fool is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

rsv@Proverbs:14:5 @ A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

rsv@Proverbs:14:7 @ Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:14:10 @ The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

rsv@Proverbs:14:11 @ The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

rsv@Proverbs:14:15 @ The simple believes everything, but the prudent looks where he is going.

rsv@Proverbs:14:16 @ A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is careless.

rsv@Proverbs:14:19 @ The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:14:21 @ He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but happy is he who is kind to the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:14:22 @ Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness.

rsv@Proverbs:14:25 @ A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is a betrayer.

rsv@Proverbs:14:27 @ The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.

rsv@Proverbs:14:30 @ A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but passion makes the bones rot.

rsv@Proverbs:14:31 @ He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

rsv@Proverbs:14:33 @ Wisdom abides in the mind of a man of understanding, but it is not known in the heart of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:14:34 @ Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

rsv@Proverbs:15:2 @ The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

rsv@Proverbs:15:3 @ The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

rsv@Proverbs:15:4 @ A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

rsv@Proverbs:15:5 @ A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who heeds admonition is prudent.

rsv@Proverbs:15:9 @ The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:15:10 @ There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.

rsv@Proverbs:15:12 @ A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:15:13 @ A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

rsv@Proverbs:15:20 @ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

rsv@Proverbs:15:25 @ The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.

rsv@Proverbs:15:27 @ He who is greedy for unjust gain makes trouble for his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

rsv@Proverbs:15:30 @ The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.

rsv@Proverbs:15:31 @ He whose ear heeds wholesome admonition will abide among the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:15:32 @ He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who heeds admonition gains understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:15:33 @ The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.

rsv@Proverbs:16:2 @ All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.

rsv@Proverbs:16:3 @ Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

rsv@Proverbs:16:6 @ By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil.

rsv@Proverbs:16:7 @ When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

rsv@Proverbs:16:8 @ Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

rsv@Proverbs:16:10 @ Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

rsv@Proverbs:16:11 @ A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

rsv@Proverbs:16:12 @ It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:16:13 @ Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

rsv@Proverbs:16:14 @ A king's wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it.

rsv@Proverbs:16:17 @ The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.

rsv@Proverbs:16:18 @ Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

rsv@Proverbs:16:20 @ He who gives heed to the word will prosper, and happy is he who trusts in the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:16:21 @ The wise of heart is called a man of discernment, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.

rsv@Proverbs:16:23 @ The mind of the wise makes his speech judicious, and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

rsv@Proverbs:16:24 @ Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

rsv@Proverbs:16:26 @ A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.

rsv@Proverbs:16:27 @ A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

rsv@Proverbs:16:28 @ A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

rsv@Proverbs:16:29 @ A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.

rsv@Proverbs:16:30 @ He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

rsv@Proverbs:16:32 @ He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

rsv@Proverbs:17:3 @ The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tries hearts.

rsv@Proverbs:17:4 @ An evildoer listens to wicked lips; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.

rsv@Proverbs:17:7 @ Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.

rsv@Proverbs:17:8 @ A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

rsv@Proverbs:17:9 @ He who forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter alienates a friend.

rsv@Proverbs:17:10 @ A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:17:11 @ An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

rsv@Proverbs:17:15 @ He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:17:17 @ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

rsv@Proverbs:17:18 @ A man without sense gives a pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

rsv@Proverbs:17:19 @ He who loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

rsv@Proverbs:17:20 @ A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:17:22 @ A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

rsv@Proverbs:17:24 @ A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:17:25 @ A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

rsv@Proverbs:17:27 @ He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:17:28 @ Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

rsv@Proverbs:18:1 @ He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.

rsv@Proverbs:18:2 @ A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

rsv@Proverbs:18:3 @ When wickedness comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes disgrace.

rsv@Proverbs:18:6 @ A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

rsv@Proverbs:18:9 @ He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

rsv@Proverbs:18:12 @ Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

rsv@Proverbs:18:13 @ If one gives answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

rsv@Proverbs:18:14 @ A man's spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit who can bear?

rsv@Proverbs:18:15 @ An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:18:16 @ A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.

rsv@Proverbs:18:17 @ He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.

rsv@Proverbs:18:18 @ The lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.

rsv@Proverbs:18:23 @ The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

rsv@Proverbs:19:2 @ It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.

rsv@Proverbs:19:3 @ When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:19:4 @ Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

rsv@Proverbs:19:5 @ A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will not escape.

rsv@Proverbs:19:6 @ Many seek the favor of a generous man, and every one is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

rsv@Proverbs:19:7 @ All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

rsv@Proverbs:19:8 @ He who gets wisdom loves himself; he who keeps understanding will prosper.

rsv@Proverbs:19:9 @ A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.

rsv@Proverbs:19:10 @ It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

rsv@Proverbs:19:11 @ Good sense makes a man slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

rsv@Proverbs:19:15 @ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

rsv@Proverbs:19:16 @ He who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the word will die.

rsv@Proverbs:19:18 @ Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.

rsv@Proverbs:19:21 @ Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established.

rsv@Proverbs:19:22 @ What is desired in a man is loyalty, and a poor man is better than a liar.

rsv@Proverbs:19:23 @ The fear of the LORD leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

rsv@Proverbs:19:24 @ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:19:26 @ He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

rsv@Proverbs:19:28 @ A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

rsv@Proverbs:20:2 @ The dread wrath of a king is like the growling of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

rsv@Proverbs:20:4 @ The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

rsv@Proverbs:20:7 @ A righteous man who walks in his integrity-- blessed are his sons after him!

rsv@Proverbs:20:8 @ A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.

rsv@Proverbs:20:10 @ Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:20:11 @ Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.

rsv@Proverbs:20:13 @ Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

rsv@Proverbs:20:14 @ "It is bad, it is bad," says the buyer; but when he goes away, then he boasts.

rsv@Proverbs:20:15 @ There is gold, and abundance of costly stones; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

rsv@Proverbs:20:16 @ Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

rsv@Proverbs:20:18 @ Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.

rsv@Proverbs:20:19 @ He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly.

rsv@Proverbs:20:20 @ If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

rsv@Proverbs:20:21 @ An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.

rsv@Proverbs:20:23 @ Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

rsv@Proverbs:20:26 @ A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.

rsv@Proverbs:20:28 @ Loyalty and faithfulness preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:20:30 @ Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

rsv@Proverbs:21:2 @ Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.

rsv@Proverbs:21:3 @ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

rsv@Proverbs:21:4 @ Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

rsv@Proverbs:21:5 @ The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but every one who is hasty comes only to want.

rsv@Proverbs:21:6 @ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

rsv@Proverbs:21:10 @ The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

rsv@Proverbs:21:11 @ When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:21:12 @ The righteous observes the house of the wicked; the wicked are cast down to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:21:13 @ He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

rsv@Proverbs:21:16 @ A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

rsv@Proverbs:21:17 @ He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

rsv@Proverbs:21:18 @ The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

rsv@Proverbs:21:19 @ It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.

rsv@Proverbs:21:21 @ He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.

rsv@Proverbs:21:22 @ A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

rsv@Proverbs:21:25 @ The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.

rsv@Proverbs:21:26 @ All day long the wicked covets, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

rsv@Proverbs:21:28 @ A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.

rsv@Proverbs:22:1 @ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

rsv@Proverbs:22:3 @ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

rsv@Proverbs:22:4 @ The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

rsv@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.

rsv@Proverbs:22:7 @ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

rsv@Proverbs:22:9 @ He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:22:11 @ He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

rsv@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.

rsv@Proverbs:22:15 @ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

rsv@Proverbs:22:16 @ He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.

rsv@Proverbs:22:23 @ for the LORD will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

rsv@Proverbs:22:25 @ lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

rsv@Proverbs:22:26 @ Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

rsv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

rsv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.

rsv@Proverbs:23:5 @ When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

rsv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;

rsv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

rsv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;

rsv@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

rsv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

rsv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

rsv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.

rsv@Proverbs:23:28 @ She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.

rsv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

rsv@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

rsv@Proverbs:23:32 @ At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

rsv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.

rsv@Proverbs:23:34 @ You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

rsv@Proverbs:24:1 @ Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them;

rsv@Proverbs:24:3 @ By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

rsv@Proverbs:24:4 @ by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

rsv@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:24:11 @ Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

rsv@Proverbs:24:12 @ If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not requite man according to his work?

rsv@Proverbs:24:16 @ for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:24:17 @ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles;

rsv@Proverbs:24:18 @ lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.

rsv@Proverbs:24:23 @ These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

rsv@Proverbs:24:24 @ He who says to the wicked, "You are innocent," will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations;

rsv@Proverbs:24:25 @ but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will be upon them.

rsv@Proverbs:24:26 @ He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.

rsv@Proverbs:24:28 @ Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

rsv@Proverbs:24:31 @ and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

rsv@Proverbs:24:33 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

rsv@Proverbs:25:1 @ These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezeki'ah king of Judah copied.

rsv@Proverbs:25:4 @ Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;

rsv@Proverbs:25:5 @ take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:25:6 @ Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great;

rsv@Proverbs:25:7 @ for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of the prince. What your eyes have seen

rsv@Proverbs:25:10 @ lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.

rsv@Proverbs:25:11 @ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

rsv@Proverbs:25:13 @ Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, he refreshes the spirit of his masters.

rsv@Proverbs:25:14 @ Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

rsv@Proverbs:25:16 @ If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

rsv@Proverbs:25:17 @ Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

rsv@Proverbs:25:18 @ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

rsv@Proverbs:25:19 @ Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

rsv@Proverbs:25:20 @ He who sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on a wound.

rsv@Proverbs:25:26 @ Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:26:1 @ Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:26:2 @ Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

rsv@Proverbs:26:4 @ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

rsv@Proverbs:26:5 @ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

rsv@Proverbs:26:6 @ He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

rsv@Proverbs:26:7 @ Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:26:8 @ Like one who binds the stone in the sling is he who gives honor to a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:26:9 @ Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:26:10 @ Like an archer who wounds everybody is he who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

rsv@Proverbs:26:12 @ Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

rsv@Proverbs:26:14 @ As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.

rsv@Proverbs:26:15 @ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:26:16 @ The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer discreetly.

rsv@Proverbs:26:17 @ He who meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

rsv@Proverbs:26:19 @ is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

rsv@Proverbs:26:20 @ For lack of wood the fire goes out; and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

rsv@Proverbs:26:23 @ Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.

rsv@Proverbs:26:24 @ He who hates, dissembles with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;

rsv@Proverbs:26:26 @ though his hatred be covered with guile, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

rsv@Proverbs:26:28 @ A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:27:6 @ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

rsv@Proverbs:27:7 @ He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

rsv@Proverbs:27:8 @ Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home.

rsv@Proverbs:27:11 @ Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

rsv@Proverbs:27:12 @ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

rsv@Proverbs:27:13 @ Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

rsv@Proverbs:27:14 @ He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.

rsv@Proverbs:27:16 @ to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand.

rsv@Proverbs:27:20 @ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

rsv@Proverbs:27:22 @ Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

rsv@Proverbs:27:24 @ for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

rsv@Proverbs:28:1 @ The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

rsv@Proverbs:28:2 @ When a land transgresses it has many rulers; but with men of understanding and knowledge its stability will long continue.

rsv@Proverbs:28:3 @ A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

rsv@Proverbs:28:7 @ He who keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

rsv@Proverbs:28:8 @ He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:28:10 @ He who misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

rsv@Proverbs:28:11 @ A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.

rsv@Proverbs:28:12 @ When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

rsv@Proverbs:28:13 @ He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

rsv@Proverbs:28:14 @ Blessed is the man who fears the LORD always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:28:16 @ A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor; but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

rsv@Proverbs:28:19 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

rsv@Proverbs:28:20 @ A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:28:22 @ A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

rsv@Proverbs:28:23 @ He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

rsv@Proverbs:28:24 @ He who robs his father or his mother and says, "That is no transgression," is the companion of a man who destroys.

rsv@Proverbs:28:27 @ He who gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

rsv@Proverbs:28:28 @ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

rsv@Proverbs:29:3 @ He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.

rsv@Proverbs:29:4 @ By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who exacts gifts ruins it.

rsv@Proverbs:29:6 @ An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

rsv@Proverbs:29:7 @ A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:29:9 @ If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

rsv@Proverbs:29:10 @ Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless, and the wicked seek his life.

rsv@Proverbs:29:11 @ A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

rsv@Proverbs:29:13 @ The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

rsv@Proverbs:29:14 @ If a king judges the poor with equity his throne will be established for ever.

rsv@Proverbs:29:16 @ When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases; but the righteous will look upon their downfall.

rsv@Proverbs:29:17 @ Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:29:18 @ Where there is no prophecy the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

rsv@Proverbs:29:22 @ A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger causes much transgression.

rsv@Proverbs:29:24 @ The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.

rsv@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!

rsv@Proverbs:30:5 @ Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

rsv@Proverbs:30:6 @ Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

rsv@Proverbs:30:8 @ Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

rsv@Proverbs:30:9 @ lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the LORD?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

rsv@Proverbs:30:10 @ Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

rsv@Proverbs:30:11 @ There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

rsv@Proverbs:30:12 @ There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

rsv@Proverbs:30:13 @ There are those--how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!

rsv@Proverbs:30:14 @ There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.

rsv@Proverbs:30:17 @ The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

rsv@Proverbs:30:20 @ This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wrong."

rsv@Proverbs:30:21 @ Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:

rsv@Proverbs:30:22 @ a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

rsv@Proverbs:30:23 @ an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

rsv@Proverbs:30:26 @ the badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

rsv@Proverbs:30:28 @ the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.

rsv@Proverbs:30:30 @ the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any;

rsv@Proverbs:30:33 @ For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

rsv@Proverbs:31:3 @ Give not your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.

rsv@Proverbs:31:4 @ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink;

rsv@Proverbs:31:5 @ lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

rsv@Proverbs:31:6 @ Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

rsv@Proverbs:31:8 @ Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.

rsv@Proverbs:31:12 @ She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

rsv@Proverbs:31:15 @ She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and tasks for her maidens.

rsv@Proverbs:31:17 @ She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.

rsv@Proverbs:31:18 @ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

rsv@Proverbs:31:20 @ She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.

rsv@Proverbs:31:22 @ She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

rsv@Proverbs:31:23 @ Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

rsv@Proverbs:31:24 @ She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers girdles to the merchant.

rsv@Proverbs:31:26 @ She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

rsv@Proverbs:31:27 @ She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

rsv@Proverbs:31:28 @ Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

rsv@Proverbs:31:31 @ Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ I said to myself, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said to myself, "Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then I said to myself, "What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @ a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @ a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @ a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What gain has the worker from his toil?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @ I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @ All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @ And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ but better than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:5 @ The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @ Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:7 @ Again, I saw vanity under the sun:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @ And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ even though he had gone from prison to the throne or in his own kingdom had been born poor.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:15 @ I saw all the living who move about under the sun, as well as that youth, who was to stand in his place;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ there was no end of all the people; he was over all of them. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil--this is the gift of God.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:20 @ For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:6 @ Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @ For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death, than the day of birth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:7 @ Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not righteous overmuch, and do not make yourself overwise; why should you destroy yourself?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not wicked overmuch, neither be a fool; why should you die before your time?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ Do not give heed to all the things that men say, lest you hear your servant cursing you;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, "I will be wise"; but it was far from me.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:24 @ That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @ Behold, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his countenance is changed.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ Keep the king's command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @ go from his presence, do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he does whatever he pleases.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, "What are you doing?"

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He who obeys a command will meet no harm, and the mind of a wise man will know the time and way.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ For every matter has its time and way, although man's trouble lies heavy upon him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out; even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate man does not know. Everything before them is vanity,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:2 @ since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:5 @ For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:8 @ Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:11 @ Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @ The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @ Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @ Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @ If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for deference will make amends for great offenses.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:6 @ folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @ I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on foot like slaves.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @ He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ He who quarries stones is hurt by them; and he who splits logs is endangered by them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the iron is blunt, and one does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps one to succeed.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:11 @ If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:12 @ The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:13 @ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:15 @ The toil of a fool wearies him, so that he does not know the way to the city.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of free men, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:18 @ Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:20 @ Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @ Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @ He who observes the wind will not sow; and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @ As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:7 @ Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:2 @ before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look through the windows are dimmed,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:4 @ and the doors on the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:8 @ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging proverbs with great care.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:11 @ The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

rsv@Songs:1:2 @ O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,

rsv@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?

rsv@Songs:1:8 @ If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

rsv@Songs:1:13 @ My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

rsv@Songs:1:15 @ Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.

rsv@Songs:2:2 @ As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.

rsv@Songs:2:3 @ As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

rsv@Songs:2:5 @ Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love.

rsv@Songs:2:7 @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the hinds of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

rsv@Songs:2:8 @ The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.

rsv@Songs:2:13 @ The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

rsv@Songs:2:15 @ Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom."

rsv@Songs:2:16 @ My beloved is mine and I am his, he pastures his flock among the lilies.

rsv@Songs:2:17 @ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle, or a young stag upon rugged mountains.

rsv@Songs:3:1 @ Upon my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

rsv@Songs:3:2 @ "I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves." I sought him, but found him not.

rsv@Songs:3:3 @ The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city. "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

rsv@Songs:3:4 @ Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

rsv@Songs:3:5 @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the hinds of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

rsv@Songs:3:6 @ What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

rsv@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.

rsv@Songs:4:1 @ Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

rsv@Songs:4:2 @ Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved.

rsv@Songs:4:3 @ Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

rsv@Songs:4:5 @ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.

rsv@Songs:4:6 @ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will hie me to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.

rsv@Songs:4:9 @ You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

rsv@Songs:4:13 @ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,

rsv@Songs:4:14 @ nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices--

rsv@Songs:4:16 @ Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

rsv@Songs:5:5 @ I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

rsv@Songs:5:9 @ What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?

rsv@Songs:5:11 @ His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.

rsv@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, fitly set.

rsv@Songs:5:13 @ His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance. His lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh.

rsv@Songs:5:14 @ His arms are rounded gold, set with jewels. His body is ivory work, encrusted with sapphires.

rsv@Songs:5:15 @ His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

rsv@Songs:5:16 @ His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

rsv@Songs:6:1 @ Whither has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

rsv@Songs:6:2 @ My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

rsv@Songs:6:3 @ I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

rsv@Songs:6:5 @ Turn away your eyes from me, for they disturb me-- Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

rsv@Songs:6:6 @ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, that have come up from the washing, all of them bear twins, not one among them is bereaved.

rsv@Songs:6:7 @ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

rsv@Songs:6:8 @ There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

rsv@Songs:6:9 @ My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her that bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

rsv@Songs:6:11 @ I went down to the nut orchard, to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

rsv@Songs:6:12 @ Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.

rsv@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O Shu'lammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shu'lammite, as upon a dance before two armies?

rsv@Songs:7:2 @ Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

rsv@Songs:7:4 @ Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rab'bim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.

rsv@Songs:7:5 @ Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

rsv@Songs:7:8 @ I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

rsv@Songs:7:9 @ and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

rsv@Songs:7:10 @ I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

rsv@Songs:7:11 @ Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;

rsv@Songs:7:12 @ let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

rsv@Songs:7:13 @ The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

rsv@Songs:8:1 @ O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.

rsv@Songs:8:2 @ I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.

rsv@Songs:8:5 @ Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.

rsv@Songs:8:6 @ Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

rsv@Songs:8:10 @ I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.

rsv@Songs:8:11 @ Solomon had a vineyard at Ba'al-ha'mon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

rsv@Songs:8:14 @ Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.

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:1:6 @ 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:1:11 @ "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:1:21 @ How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

rsv@Isaiah:1:23 @ 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:1:26 @ 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: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:2:6 @ 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:2:10 @ 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:2:17 @ 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:2:19 @ 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: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:3:8 @ 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:3:12 @ 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:3:14 @ 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:3:16 @ 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:3:18 @ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;

rsv@Isaiah:3:20 @ the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;

rsv@Isaiah:3:22 @ the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;

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:3:26 @ 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:4:5 @ 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: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:5:4 @ 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:5:7 @ 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:5:9 @ 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:5:15 @ 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:5:18 @ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

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:5:24 @ 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:6:4 @ 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:6:10 @ 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: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:7:4 @ 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:7:6 @ "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:7:8 @ 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:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test."

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:7:18 @ 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:7:23 @ 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: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:8:9 @ 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:8:14 @ 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:8:16 @ Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

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:9:2 @ 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:9:7 @ 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:9:10 @ "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:9:15 @ the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

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: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:10:6 @ 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:10:10 @ 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:10:13 @ 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:10:16 @ 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:10:18 @ 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:10:22 @ 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:10:25 @ For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.

rsv@Isaiah:10:27 @ 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:10:34 @ 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:11:9 @ 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:11:14 @ 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:12:5 @ "Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth.

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:13:5 @ 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:13:8 @ 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:13:11 @ 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:13:16 @ 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:13:21 @ 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:14:2 @ 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:14:6 @ 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:14:17 @ who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?'

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:14:23 @ 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:14:31 @ 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:15:2 @ 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:15:8 @ 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:16:4 @ 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:16:7 @ 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: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:17:9 @ 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:17:11 @ 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:17:14 @ 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:18:2 @ 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:18:4 @ 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: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:19:6 @ 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:19:9 @ The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.

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:19:13 @ 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:19:16 @ 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:19:18 @ 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:19:20 @ 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:19:24 @ 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:20:2 @ 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:20:4 @ 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:20:6 @ 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:21:5 @ 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:21:9 @ 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:21:12 @ 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:21:15 @ For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.

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:22:7 @ 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:22:24 @ 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: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:23:5 @ When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.

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:23:10 @ 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: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:24:7 @ The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

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:24:14 @ They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west.

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:24:20 @ 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:24:23 @ 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:25:3 @ 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:25:10 @ 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:26:2 @ Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

rsv@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy."

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:26:13 @ 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:26:16 @ 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:26:19 @ 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: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:27:9 @ 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:27:12 @ 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: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:28:4 @ 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:28:7 @ 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:28:12 @ to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.

rsv@Isaiah:28:15 @ 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:28:22 @ 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:28:24 @ 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:29:2 @ 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:29:5 @ 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:29:15 @ 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:29:17 @ 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:29:23 @ 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: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:30:10 @ 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:30:12 @ 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:30:18 @ 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:30:20 @ 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:30:22 @ 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:30:27 @ 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:31:5 @ 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:31:9 @ 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:32:6 @ 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:32:10 @ 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:32:13 @ 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:33:3 @ At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;

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:33:12 @ And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."

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:33:20 @ 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: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:34:3 @ 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:34:11 @ 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:35:5 @ 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:35:10 @ 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:36:4 @ 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:36:7 @ 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:36:10 @ 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:36:12 @ 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:36:18 @ 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:36:20 @ 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:36:22 @ 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:37:9 @ 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:37:11 @ 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:37:14 @ 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:37:17 @ 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:37:19 @ 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:37:22 @ 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:37:26 @ `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:37:36 @ 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:37:38 @ 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:38:3 @ 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:38:9 @ 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:38:13 @ 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: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: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:40:12 @ 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:40:15 @ 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:40:17 @ 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:40:20 @ 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:40:22 @ 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:40:26 @ 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:40:28 @ 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:40:31 @ 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:41:7 @ 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:41:9 @ 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:41:15 @ 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:41:18 @ 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:41:24 @ Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nought; an abomination is he who chooses you.

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:42:4 @ 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:42:11 @ 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:42:13 @ 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:42:16 @ 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:42:19 @ 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: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:43:8 @ 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:43:16 @ Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

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:43:23 @ 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:43:27 @ 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:44:2 @ 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:44:6 @ 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:44:8 @ 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:44:12 @ 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:44:25 @ 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: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:45:5 @ 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:45:11 @ 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:45:13 @ 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:45:18 @ 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:45:23 @ 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: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:46:6 @ 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:46:10 @ 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: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:47:5 @ 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:47:7 @ 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:47:12 @ 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:47:14 @ 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: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:48:5 @ 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:48:7 @ 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:48:9 @ "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:48:14 @ "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:48:17 @ 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:48:21 @ 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: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:49:5 @ 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:49:12 @ 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:49:15 @ "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:49:17 @ 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:49:21 @ 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:50:8 @ 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:50:10 @ 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: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:51:9 @ 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:51:11 @ 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:51:15 @ 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:51:19 @ These two things have befallen you-- who will condole with you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

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:52:7 @ 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:52:9 @ 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: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:53:7 @ 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:53:10 @ 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:54:11 @ "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:54:14 @ 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:54:16 @ 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:55:2 @ 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:55:4 @ Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

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:56:6 @ "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:56:12 @ "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:57:6 @ 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:57:8 @ 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:57:12 @ 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:57:17 @ 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:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

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:58:5 @ 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: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: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:60:8 @ Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

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:60:13 @ 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:60:17 @ 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:60:21 @ 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:61:3 @ 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:61:9 @ 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:62:4 @ 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:62:10 @ 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: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:63:6 @ 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:63:9 @ 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:63:11 @ 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:63:16 @ 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: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:64:10 @ 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:65:2 @ 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:65:4 @ 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:65:7 @ 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:65:11 @ 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:65:14 @ 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:65:16 @ 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:65:19 @ 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:65:23 @ 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:65:25 @ 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:66:6 @ "Hark, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!

rsv@Isaiah:66:12 @ 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:66:14 @ 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:66:20 @ 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:1:10 @ 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:1:15 @ 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: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:2:8 @ 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:2:11 @ 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:2:15 @ 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:2:18 @ 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:2:23 @ 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:2:28 @ 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:2:31 @ 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:2:34 @ 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: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:3:6 @ 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:3:8 @ 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:3:11 @ 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:3:14 @ 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:3:17 @ 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:3:20 @ Surely, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:3:22 @ "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: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:4:4 @ 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:4:9 @ "In that day, says the LORD, courage shall fail both king and princes; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:11 @ 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:4:20 @ Disaster follows hard on disaster, the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:26 @ 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:4:29 @ 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: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:5:6 @ 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:5:9 @ 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:5:17 @ 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:5:19 @ 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:5:21 @ "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:5:24 @ 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:5:27 @ 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:5:31 @ 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:6:4 @ "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:6:12 @ 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:6:16 @ 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:6:19 @ 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:6:22 @ 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:6:26 @ 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:6:29 @ 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: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:7:4 @ 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:7:6 @ 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:7:10 @ 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:7:17 @ 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:7:24 @ 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:7:27 @ "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:7:33 @ 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:8:3 @ 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:8:6 @ 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:8:10 @ 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:8:13 @ 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:8:16 @ "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:8:19 @ 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:8:22 @ 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:9:4 @ 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:9:9 @ 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:9:18 @ 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:9:21 @ 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:9:26 @ 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:10:3 @ 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:10:7 @ 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:10:10 @ 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:10:12 @ 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:10:18 @ 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:10:20 @ 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:10:22 @ 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:10:24 @ 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:11:3 @ 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:11:6 @ 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:11:8 @ 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:11:10 @ 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:11:15 @ 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:11:19 @ 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: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:12:7 @ "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:12:10 @ 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:12:16 @ 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:13:4 @ "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:13:13 @ 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:13:16 @ 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:13:19 @ 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:13:22 @ 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:13:24 @ 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:13:27 @ 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:14:2 @ "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:14:5 @ 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:14:10 @ 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:14:12 @ 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:14:14 @ 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:14:22 @ 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:15:6 @ 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:15:11 @ 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:15:13 @ "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:15:19 @ 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:15:21 @ I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless."

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:16:9 @ 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:16:14 @ "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:16:17 @ 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: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:17:11 @ 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:17:16 @ 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:17:18 @ 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:17:24 @ "`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:18:4 @ 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:18:7 @ 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:18:10 @ 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:18:12 @ "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:18:14 @ Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Si'rion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?

rsv@Jeremiah:18:16 @ 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:18:18 @ 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:18:21 @ 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:19:5 @ 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:19:7 @ 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:19:11 @ 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:19:13 @ 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: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:20:3 @ 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:20:8 @ 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:20:12 @ 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:20:14 @ Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!

rsv@Jeremiah:20:16 @ 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: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:21:4 @ "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:21:6 @ 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:21:9 @ 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:21:12 @ 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:21:14 @ 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:22:2 @ 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:22:10 @ 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:22:13 @ "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:22:15 @ 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:22:17 @ 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:22:22 @ 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:22:28 @ 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:22:30 @ 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:23:3 @ 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:23:5 @ "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:23:19 @ Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:21 @ "I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

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:23:29 @ Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?

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:23:38 @ 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: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:24:5 @ "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:24:8 @ "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:25:9 @ 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:25:13 @ 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:25:18 @ 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:25:24 @ all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes that dwell in the desert;

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:25:34 @ "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:25:38 @ 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:26:2 @ "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:26:7 @ 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:26:15 @ 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:26:18 @ "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: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:27:10 @ 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:27:13 @ 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:28:3 @ 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:28:8 @ 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:28:11 @ 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:28:14 @ 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: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:29:4 @ "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:29:9 @ for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:14 @ 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:29:17 @ `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:29:20 @ 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:29:25 @ "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:29:31 @ "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:30:3 @ 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:30:7 @ 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:30:14 @ 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:30:23 @ Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

rsv@Jeremiah: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:31:7 @ 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:31:12 @ 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:31:18 @ 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:31:21 @ "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:31:28 @ 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:31:34 @ 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:31:40 @ 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:32:2 @ 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:32:8 @ 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:32:10 @ I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.

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:32:18 @ 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:32:22 @ 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:32:27 @ "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too hard for me?

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:32:32 @ 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:32:35 @ 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:32:41 @ 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:32:43 @ 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:33:2 @ "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it--the LORD is his name:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:4 @ 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:33:7 @ I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.

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:33:15 @ 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:33:18 @ 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:33:21 @ 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:33:24 @ "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:34:3 @ 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:34:5 @ 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:34:9 @ 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:34:15 @ 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:35:2 @ "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:35:8 @ 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:35:18 @ 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: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:36:9 @ 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:36:12 @ 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:36:14 @ 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:36:16 @ 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:36:21 @ 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:36:24 @ Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:29 @ 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: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:37:5 @ 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:37:9 @ 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:37:13 @ 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:37:17 @ 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:37:19 @ 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: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:38:4 @ 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:38:6 @ 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:38:9 @ "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:38:16 @ 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:38:22 @ 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:38:27 @ 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: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:39:3 @ 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:39:6 @ 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:39:9 @ 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: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:40:5 @ 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:40:7 @ 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:40:10 @ 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: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:41:8 @ 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:41:13 @ 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:41:15 @ 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: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:42:4 @ 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:42:8 @ 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:42:15 @ 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:42:17 @ 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:42:20 @ 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:42:22 @ 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:43:4 @ 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:44:5 @ 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:44:9 @ 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:44:12 @ 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:44:17 @ 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:44:19 @ 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:44:21 @ "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:44:25 @ 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:44:28 @ 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:44:30 @ 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:45:3 @ 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:45:5 @ 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:46:2 @ 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:46:4 @ Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your coats of mail!

rsv@Jeremiah:46:6 @ The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphra'tes they have stumbled and fallen.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:8 @ 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:46:14 @ "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:46:16 @ 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:46:19 @ Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.

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:46:25 @ 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:47:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.

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: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:48:14 @ "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:48:18 @ "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:48:24 @ and Ker'i-oth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

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:48:31 @ 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:48:36 @ 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:48:41 @ 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:48:44 @ 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:48:47 @ 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:49:8 @ 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:49:20 @ 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:49:26 @ 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:49:28 @ 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:49:31 @ "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:49:37 @ 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:50:2 @ "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:50:5 @ 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:50:7 @ 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:50:9 @ 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:50:12 @ 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:50:16 @ 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:50:19 @ 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:50:21 @ "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:50:26 @ 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:50:28 @ "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:50:32 @ 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:50:45 @ 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: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:51:3 @ 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:51:9 @ 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:51:11 @ "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:51:15 @ "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:51:27 @ "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:51:31 @ 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:51:33 @ 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:51:42 @ 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:51:46 @ 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:51:50 @ "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:51:60 @ 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: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:52:5 @ So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki'ah.

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:52:13 @ 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:52:15 @ 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@Lamentations:1:1 @ How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.

rsv@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

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:1:4 @ The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her maidens have been dragged away, and she herself suffers bitterly.

rsv@Lamentations:1:5 @ Her foes have become the head, her enemies prosper, because the LORD has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.

rsv@Lamentations:1:6 @ From the daughter of Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes have become like harts that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.

rsv@Lamentations:1:7 @ Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and bitterness all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, the foe gloated over her, mocking at her downfall.

rsv@Lamentations:1:8 @ Jerusalem sinned grievously, therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; yea, she herself groans, and turns her face away.

rsv@Lamentations:1:9 @ Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her doom; therefore her fall is terrible, she has no comforter. "O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!"

rsv@Lamentations:1:11 @ All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. "Look, O LORD, and behold, for I am despised."

rsv@Lamentations:1:13 @ "From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.

rsv@Lamentations:1:14 @ "My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.

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:1:16 @ "For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed."

rsv@Lamentations:1:17 @ Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the LORD has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

rsv@Lamentations:1:18 @ "The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.

rsv@Lamentations:1:19 @ "I called to my lovers but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

rsv@Lamentations:1:20 @ "Behold, O LORD, for I am in distress, my soul is in tumult, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.

rsv@Lamentations:1:21 @ "Hear how I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it. Bring thou the day thou hast announced, and let them be as I am.

rsv@Lamentations:1:22 @ "Let all their evil doing come before thee; and deal with them as thou hast dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many and my heart is faint."

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:2:4 @ He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has slain all the pride of our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

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:2:6 @ He has broken down his booth like that of a garden, laid in ruins the place of his appointed feasts; the LORD has brought to an end in Zion appointed feast and sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

rsv@Lamentations:2:7 @ The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; a clamor was raised in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

rsv@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he marked it off by the line; he restrained not his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.

rsv@Lamentations:2:9 @ Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the LORD.

rsv@Lamentations:2:11 @ My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

rsv@Lamentations:2:13 @ What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can restore you?

rsv@Lamentations:2:14 @ Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles false and misleading.

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:2:17 @ The LORD has done what he purposed, has carried out his threat; as he ordained long ago, he has demolished without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you, and exalted the might of your foes.

rsv@Lamentations:2:18 @ Cry aloud to the Lord! O daughter of Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!

rsv@Lamentations:2:19 @ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

rsv@Lamentations:2:20 @ Look, O LORD, and see! With whom hast thou dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

rsv@Lamentations:2:22 @ Thou didst invite as to the day of an appointed feast my terrors on every side; and on the day of the anger of the LORD none escaped or survived; those whom I dandled and reared my enemy destroyed.

rsv@Lamentations:3:2 @ he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

rsv@Lamentations:3:4 @ He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;

rsv@Lamentations:3:5 @ he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

rsv@Lamentations:3:6 @ he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.

rsv@Lamentations:3:7 @ He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

rsv@Lamentations:3:9 @ he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

rsv@Lamentations:3:11 @ he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;

rsv@Lamentations:3:14 @ I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.

rsv@Lamentations:3:15 @ He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

rsv@Lamentations:3:16 @ He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;

rsv@Lamentations:3:17 @ my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

rsv@Lamentations:3:19 @ Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!

rsv@Lamentations:3:22 @ The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

rsv@Lamentations:3:23 @ they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

rsv@Lamentations:3:33 @ for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

rsv@Lamentations:3:35 @ to turn aside the right of a man in the presence of the Most High,

rsv@Lamentations:3:36 @ to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

rsv@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

rsv@Lamentations:3:40 @ Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!

rsv@Lamentations:3:42 @ "We have transgressed and rebelled, and thou hast not forgiven.

rsv@Lamentations:3:45 @ Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.

rsv@Lamentations:3:46 @ "All our enemies rail against us;

rsv@Lamentations:3:47 @ panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;

rsv@Lamentations:3:48 @ my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

rsv@Lamentations:3:49 @ "My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,

rsv@Lamentations:3:50 @ until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;

rsv@Lamentations:3:51 @ my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city.

rsv@Lamentations:3:52 @ "I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;

rsv@Lamentations:3:53 @ they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;

rsv@Lamentations:3:60 @ Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.

rsv@Lamentations:3:61 @ "Thou hast heard their taunts, O LORD, all their devices against me.

rsv@Lamentations:3:65 @ Thou wilt give them dullness of heart; thy curse will be on them.

rsv@Lamentations:3:66 @ Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them from under thy heavens, O LORD."

rsv@Lamentations:4:1 @ How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

rsv@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the jackals give the breast and suckle their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

rsv@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

rsv@Lamentations:4:5 @ Those who feasted on dainties perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple lie on ash heaps.

rsv@Lamentations:4:7 @ Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.

rsv@Lamentations:4:8 @ Now their visage is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled upon their bones, it has become as dry as wood.

rsv@Lamentations:4:10 @ The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

rsv@Lamentations:4:12 @ The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

rsv@Lamentations:4:13 @ This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

rsv@Lamentations:4:15 @ "Away! Unclean!" men cried at them; "Away! Away! Touch not!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; men said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."

rsv@Lamentations:4:16 @ The LORD himself has scattered them, he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.

rsv@Lamentations:4:17 @ Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

rsv@Lamentations:4:19 @ Our pursuers were swifter than the vultures in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

rsv@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.

rsv@Lamentations:5:3 @ We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

rsv@Lamentations:5:5 @ With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.

rsv@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

rsv@Lamentations:5:8 @ Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

rsv@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

rsv@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

rsv@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

rsv@Lamentations:5:18 @ for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

rsv@Lamentations:5:19 @ But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.

rsv@Lamentations:5:21 @ Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!

rsv@Ezekiel:1:1 @ In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:3 @ the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chalde'ans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:4 @ As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:5 @ And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the form of men,

rsv@Ezekiel:1:6 @ but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:7 @ Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:8 @ Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:

rsv@Ezekiel:1:10 @ As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle at the back.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:11 @ Such were their faces. And their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:13 @ In the midst of the living creatures there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:14 @ And the living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:15 @ Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:16 @ As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite; and the four had the same likeness, their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:18 @ The four wheels had rims and they had spokes; and their rims were full of eyes round about.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:19 @ And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:20 @ Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:21 @ When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:22 @ Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, shining like crystal, spread out above their heads.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:26 @ And above the firmament over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness as it were of a human form.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:27 @ And upward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it were gleaming bronze, like the appearance of fire enclosed round about; and downward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:28 @ Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

rsv@Ezekiel:2:3 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels, who have rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:6 @ not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:8 @ Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:11 @ And go, get you to the exiles, to your people, and say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD'; whether they hear or refuse to hear."

rsv@Ezekiel:3:13 @ it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, that sounded like a great earthquake.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:14 @ The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me;

rsv@Ezekiel:3:15 @ and I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who dwelt by the river Chebar. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:19 @ But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you will have saved your life.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:20 @ Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:21 @ Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you will have saved your life."

rsv@Ezekiel:4:3 @ And take an iron plate, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.

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:4:7 @ And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared; and you shall prophesy against the city.

rsv@Ezekiel:4:9 @ "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

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:4:16 @ Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:1 @ "And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:3 @ And you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:4 @ And of these again you shall take some, and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire; from there a fire will come forth into all the house of Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:5 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries round about her.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she has wickedly rebelled against my ordinances more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries round about her, by rejecting my ordinances and not walking in my statutes.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

rsv@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:12 @ A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Moreover I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations round about you and in the sight of all that pass by.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:16 @ when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you, and break your staff of bread.

rsv@Ezekiel:5:17 @ I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the LORD, have spoken."

rsv@Ezekiel:6:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

rsv@Ezekiel:6:3 @ and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

rsv@Ezekiel:6:4 @ Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

rsv@Ezekiel:6:5 @ And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

rsv@Ezekiel:6:6 @ Wherever you dwell your cities shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

rsv@Ezekiel:6:8 @ "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,

rsv@Ezekiel:6:9 @ then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, when I have broken their wanton heart which has departed from me, and blinded their eyes which turn wantonly after their idols; and they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

rsv@Ezekiel:6:11 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Clap your hands, and stamp your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

rsv@Ezekiel:6:12 @ He that is far off shall die of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.

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:7:5 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:6 @ An end has come, the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:10 @ "Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come, injustice has blossomed, pride has budded.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:11 @ Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:14 @ "They have blown the trumpet and made all ready; but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:15 @ The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:16 @ And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one over his iniquity.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:17 @ All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:18 @ They gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror covers them; shame is upon all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:20 @ Their beautiful ornament they used for vainglory, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it; therefore I will make it an unclean thing to them.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:23 @ and make a desolation. "Because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence,

rsv@Ezekiel:7:24 @ I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses; I will put an end to their proud might, and their holy places shall be profaned.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:25 @ When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:26 @ Disaster comes upon disaster, rumor follows rumor; they seek a vision from the prophet, but the law perishes from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:27 @ The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are palsied by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their own judgments I will judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:8:2 @ Then I beheld, and, lo, a form that had the appearance of a man; below what appeared to be his loins it was fire, and above his loins it was like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming bronze.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:3 @ He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:5 @ Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now in the direction of the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his room of pictures? For they say, `The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'"

rsv@Ezekiel:8:15 @ Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these."

rsv@Ezekiel:8:16 @ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD; and behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.

rsv@Ezekiel:9:1 @ Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Draw near, you executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand."

rsv@Ezekiel:9:2 @ And lo, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, every man with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his side. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

rsv@Ezekiel:9:3 @ Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherubim on which it rested to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his side.

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:10:1 @ Then I looked, and behold, on the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in form resembling a throne.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:2 @ And he said to the man clothed in linen, "Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim; fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." And he went in before my eyes.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:4 @ And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherubim to the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:6 @ And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," he went in and stood beside a wheel.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:9 @ And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling chrysolite.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:10 @ And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:12 @ And their rims, and their spokes, and the wheels were full of eyes round about--the wheels that the four of them had.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:14 @ And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:15 @ And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:16 @ And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:17 @ When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:18 @ Then the glory of the LORD went forth from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:19 @ And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight as they went forth, with the wheels beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate of the house of the LORD; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:20 @ These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:21 @ Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the semblance of human hands.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:22 @ And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the very faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. They went every one straight forward.

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:11:2 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

rsv@Ezekiel:11:3 @ who say, `The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.'

rsv@Ezekiel:11:4 @ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man."

rsv@Ezekiel:11:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:11 @ This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you at the border of Israel;

rsv@Ezekiel:11:12 @ and you shall know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you."

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:11:15 @ "Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, `They have gone far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.'

rsv@Ezekiel:11:16 @ Therefore say, `Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'

rsv@Ezekiel:11:17 @ Therefore say, `Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.'

rsv@Ezekiel:11:18 @ And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:19 @ And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them; I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

rsv@Ezekiel:11:20 @ that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:21 @ But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will requite their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:11:22 @ Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:24 @ And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chalde'a, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:25 @ And I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had showed me.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:2 @ "Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;

rsv@Ezekiel:12:12 @ And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth; he shall dig through the wall and go out through it; he shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:15 @ And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:16 @ But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may confess all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:12:18 @ "Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with fearfulness;

rsv@Ezekiel:12:19 @ and say of the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink water in dismay, because their land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:20 @ And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:12:22 @ "Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, `The days grow long, and every vision comes to nought'?

rsv@Ezekiel:12:27 @ "Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, `The vision that he sees is for many days hence, and he prophesies of times far off.'

rsv@Ezekiel:13:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, prophesy and say to those who prophesy out of their own minds: `Hear the word of the LORD!'

rsv@Ezekiel:13:4 @ Your prophets have been like foxes among ruins, O Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:13:5 @ You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:13:8 @ Therefore thus says the Lord God: "Because you have uttered delusions and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because, yea, because they have misled my people, saying, `Peace,' when there is no peace; and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets daub it with whitewash;

rsv@Ezekiel:13:11 @ say to those who daub it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, great hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind break out;

rsv@Ezekiel:13:13 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath; and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to destroy it.

rsv@Ezekiel:13:16 @ the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:13:17 @ "And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds; prophesy against them

rsv@Ezekiel:13:19 @ You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:3 @ "Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; should I let myself be inquired of at all by them?

rsv@Ezekiel:14:4 @ Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him myself because of the multitude of his idols,

rsv@Ezekiel:14:5 @ that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:6 @ "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:7 @ For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the LORD will answer him myself;

rsv@Ezekiel:14:9 @ And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:11 @ that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:14:13 @ "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

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:14:15 @ If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

rsv@Ezekiel:14:16 @ even if these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:18 @ though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:19 @ Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

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:14:21 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

rsv@Ezekiel:15:2 @ "Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest?

rsv@Ezekiel:15:3 @ Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do men take a peg from it to hang any vessel on?

rsv@Ezekiel:15:5 @ Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing; how much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything!

rsv@Ezekiel:15:6 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezekiel:15:7 @ And I will set my face against them; though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them; and you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

rsv@Ezekiel:15:8 @ And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:16:3 @ and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:5 @ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you; but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:8 @ "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:13 @ Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful, and came to regal estate.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:15 @ "But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:16 @ You took some of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and on them played the harlot; the like has never been, nor ever shall be.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:17 @ You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the harlot;

rsv@Ezekiel:16:20 @ And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter

rsv@Ezekiel:16:22 @ And in all your abominations and your harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, weltering in your blood.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:23 @ "And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD),

rsv@Ezekiel:16:27 @ Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you, and diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:30 @ "How lovesick is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot;

rsv@Ezekiel:16:32 @ Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

rsv@Ezekiel:16:33 @ Men give gifts to all harlots; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side for your harlotries.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:34 @ So you were different from other women in your harlotries: none solicited you to play the harlot; and you gave hire, while no hire was given to you; therefore you were different.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your shame was laid bare and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all your idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

rsv@Ezekiel:16:37 @ therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you loathed; I will gather them against you from every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:39 @ And I will give you into the hand of your lovers, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:40 @ They shall bring up a host against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:41 @ And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; I will make you stop playing the harlot, and you shall also give hire no more.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things; therefore, behold, I will requite your deeds upon your head, says the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

rsv@Ezekiel:16:44 @ Behold, every one who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, `Like mother, like daughter.'

rsv@Ezekiel:16:53 @ "I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Sama'ria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in the midst of them,

rsv@Ezekiel:16:55 @ As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and Sama'ria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:57 @ before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become like her an object of reproach for the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those round about who despise you.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:58 @ You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:59 @ "Yea, thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,

rsv@Ezekiel:16:60 @ yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:62 @ I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,

rsv@Ezekiel:17:5 @ Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig,

rsv@Ezekiel:17:6 @ and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine, and brought forth branches and put forth foliage.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:7 @ "But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him that he might water it. From the bed where it was planted

rsv@Ezekiel:17:8 @ he transplanted it to good soil by abundant waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and become a noble vine.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:9 @ Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its branches, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:10 @ Behold, when it is transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it--wither away on the bed where it grew?"

rsv@Ezekiel:17:12 @ "Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:15 @ But he rebelled against him by sending ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can a man escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?

rsv@Ezekiel:17:16 @ As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:17 @ Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:18 @ Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely my oath which he despised, and my covenant which he broke, I will requite upon his head.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:23 @ on the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell all kinds of beasts; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it."

rsv@Ezekiel:18:2 @ "What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, `The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

rsv@Ezekiel:18:5 @ "If a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right--

rsv@Ezekiel:18:6 @ if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of impurity,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:7 @ does not oppress any one, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:8 @ does not lend at interest or take any increase, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between man and man,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:9 @ walks in my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances--he is righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:11 @ who does none of these duties, but eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor's wife,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:12 @ oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:13 @ lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:14 @ "But if this man begets a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, and fears, and does not do likewise,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:15 @ who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:16 @ does not wrong any one, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:17 @ withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or increase, observes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:19 @ "Yet you say, `Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:20 @ The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:21 @ "But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:22 @ None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:26 @ When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die for it; for the iniquity which he has committed he shall die.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:27 @ Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:30 @ "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

rsv@Ezekiel:19:1 @ And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

rsv@Ezekiel:19:2 @ and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:7 @ And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities; and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the nations set against him snares on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:10 @ Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:11 @ Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:13 @ Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:14 @ And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:7 @ And I said to them, Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. "Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:10 @ So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:11 @ I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:13 @ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not walk in my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:15 @ Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,

rsv@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:17 @ Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:18 @ "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:19 @ I the LORD am your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances,

rsv@Ezekiel:20:21 @ But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes, and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; they profaned my sabbaths. "Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:23 @ Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

rsv@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:25 @ Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life;

rsv@Ezekiel:20:28 @ For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their soothing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:30 @ Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go astray after their detestable things?

rsv@Ezekiel:20:31 @ When you offer your gifts and sacrifice your sons by fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:32 @ "What is in your mind shall never happen--the thought, `Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'

rsv@Ezekiel:20:34 @ I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;

rsv@Ezekiel:20:35 @ and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:36 @ As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:38 @ I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:40 @ "For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:41 @ As a pleasing odor I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:43 @ And there you shall remember your ways and all the doings with which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:46 @ "Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb;

rsv@Ezekiel:20:47 @ say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the LORD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:48 @ All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."

rsv@Ezekiel:20:49 @ Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! they are saying of me, `Is he not a maker of allegories?'"

rsv@Ezekiel:21:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophesy against the land of Israel

rsv@Ezekiel:21:4 @ Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north;

rsv@Ezekiel:21:5 @ and all flesh shall know that I the LORD have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:6 @ Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And when they say to you, `Why do you sigh?' you shall say, `Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,'" says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:9 @ "Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,

rsv@Ezekiel:21:10 @ sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Or do we make mirth? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:12 @ Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword with my people. Smite therefore upon your thigh.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:13 @ For it will not be a testing--what could it do if you despise the rod?" says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:14 @ "Prophesy therefore, son of man; clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yea thrice, the sword for those to be slain; it is the sword for the great slaughter, which encompasses them,

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:21:21 @ For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:22 @ Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to open the mouth with a cry, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:24 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in them.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:27 @ A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it; there shall not be even a trace of it until he comes whose right it is; and to him I will give it.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:28 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter, it is polished to glitter and to flash like lightning--

rsv@Ezekiel:21:29 @ while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to be laid on the necks of the unhallowed wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:31 @ And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, skilful to destroy.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:3 @ You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

rsv@Ezekiel:22:4 @ You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by the idols which you have made; and you have brought your day near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:6 @ "Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:7 @ Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:8 @ You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:9 @ There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and men in you who eat upon the mountains; men commit lewdness in your midst.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:10 @ In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they humble women who are unclean in their impurity.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:11 @ One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father's daughter.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:12 @ In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:13 @ "Behold, therefore, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in the midst of you.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:15 @ I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:25 @ Her princes in the midst of her are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:26 @ Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:27 @ Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:28 @ And her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, `Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:29 @ The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without redress.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:30 @ And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:3 @ they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.

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:23:6 @ warriors clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:7 @ She bestowed her harlotries upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of every one on whom she doted.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:10 @ These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed upon her.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:12 @ She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:14 @ But she carried her harlotry further; she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chalde'ans portrayed in vermilion,

rsv@Ezekiel:23:16 @ When she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them in Chalde'a.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:18 @ When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:20 @ and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:21 @ Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts."

rsv@Ezekiel:23:23 @ the Babylonians and all the Chalde'ans, Pekod and Sho'a and Ko'a, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and warriors, all of them riding on horses.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:24 @ And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples; they shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet, and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:26 @ They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fine jewels.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:27 @ Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to the Egyptians or remember them any more.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:29 @ and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your harlotry

rsv@Ezekiel:23:33 @ you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, is the cup of your sister Sama'ria;

rsv@Ezekiel:23:35 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and harlotry."

rsv@Ezekiel:23:40 @ They even sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and lo, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;

rsv@Ezekiel:23:42 @ The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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:23:45 @ But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands."

rsv@Ezekiel:23:47 @ And the host shall stone them and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:48 @ Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:49 @ And your lewdness shall be requited upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:24:4 @ put in it the pieces of flesh, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:5 @ Take the choicest one of the flock, pile the logs under it; boil its pieces, seethe also its bones in it.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:10 @ Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil well the flesh, and empty out the broth, and let the bones be burned up.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:11 @ Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its filthiness may be melted in it, its rust consumed.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:12 @ In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not go out of it by fire.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:13 @ Its rust is your filthy lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your filthiness, you shall not be cleansed any more till I have satisfied my fury upon you.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:16 @ "Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep nor shall your tears run down.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:17 @ Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of mourners."

rsv@Ezekiel:24:19 @ And the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?"

rsv@Ezekiel:24:21 @ `Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:23 @ Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:24 @ Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'

rsv@Ezekiel:24:25 @ "And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart's desire, and also their sons and daughters,

rsv@Ezekiel:25:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.

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:25:4 @ therefore I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

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:25:7 @ therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:25:9 @ therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jesh'imoth, Ba'al-me'on, and Kiriatha'im.

rsv@Ezekiel:25:10 @ I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that it may be remembered no more among the nations,

rsv@Ezekiel:25:13 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and cut off from it man and beast; and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

rsv@Ezekiel:25:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of heart to destroy in never-ending enmity;

rsv@Ezekiel:25:16 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cher'ethites, and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

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:26:3 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:4 @ They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; and I will scrape her soil from her, and make her a bare rock.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:7 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:9 @ He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:10 @ His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as one enters a city which has been breached.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:11 @ With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people with the sword; and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:12 @ They will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:13 @ And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:16 @ Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.

rsv@Ezekiel:26:18 @ Now the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea are dismayed at your passing.'

rsv@Ezekiel:26:19 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,

rsv@Ezekiel:26:20 @ then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the nether world, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:3 @ and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: "O Tyre, you have said, `I am perfect in beauty.'

rsv@Ezekiel:27:5 @ They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:6 @ Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:9 @ The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you, to barter for your wares.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:12 @ "Tarshish trafficked with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:13 @ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged the persons of men and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:14 @ Beth-togar'mah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:15 @ The men of Rhodes traded with you; many coastlands were your own special markets, they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:16 @ Edom trafficked with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate.

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:27:19 @ and wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:21 @ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they trafficked with you.

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:27:24 @ These traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored stuff, bound with cords and made secure; in these they traded with you.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:27 @ Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your ruin.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:28 @ At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes,

rsv@Ezekiel:27:30 @ and wail aloud over you, and cry bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

rsv@Ezekiel:27:31 @ they make themselves bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:32 @ In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you, and lament over you: `Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?

rsv@Ezekiel:27:33 @ When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:35 @ All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you; and their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:36 @ The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever.'"

rsv@Ezekiel:28:4 @ by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

rsv@Ezekiel:28:9 @ Will you still say, `I am a god,' in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?

rsv@Ezekiel:28:14 @ With an anointed guardian cherub I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:15 @ You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:16 @ In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:18 @ By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought forth fire from the midst of you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:19 @ All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever."

rsv@Ezekiel:28:21 @ "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

rsv@Ezekiel:28:22 @ and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in the midst of you. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her, and manifest my holiness in her;

rsv@Ezekiel:28:23 @ for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:25 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:26 @ And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God."

rsv@Ezekiel:29:2 @ "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;

rsv@Ezekiel:29:3 @ speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, `My Nile is my own; I made it.'

rsv@Ezekiel:29:4 @ I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams which stick to your scales.

rsv@Ezekiel:29:5 @ And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall upon the open field, and not be gathered and buried. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air I have given you as food.

rsv@Ezekiel:29:9 @ and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, `The Nile is mine, and I made it,'

rsv@Ezekiel:29:10 @ therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

rsv@Ezekiel:29:12 @ And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.

rsv@Ezekiel:29:13 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered;

rsv@Ezekiel:29:14 @ and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

rsv@Ezekiel:29:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, `Alas for the day!'

rsv@Ezekiel:30:7 @ And she shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:9 @ "On that day swift messengers shall go forth from me to terrify the unsuspecting Ethiopians; and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom; for, lo, it comes!

rsv@Ezekiel:30:11 @ He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:12 @ And I will dry up the Nile, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I, the LORD, have spoken.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:13 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: I will destroy the idols, and put an end to the images, in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:14 @ I will make Pathros a desolation, and will set fire to Zo'an, and will execute acts of judgment upon Thebes.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:15 @ And I will pour my wrath upon Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:16 @ And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and its walls broken down.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:18 @ At Tehaph'nehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the dominion of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:26 @ and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:31:2 @ "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?

rsv@Ezekiel:31:3 @ Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:4 @ The waters nourished it, the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow round the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the forest.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:5 @ So it towered high above all the trees of the forest; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:6 @ All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:7 @ It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:8 @ The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:9 @ I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:11 @ I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:12 @ Foreigners, the most terrible of the nations, will cut it down and leave it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches will fall, and its boughs will lie broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth will go from its shadow and leave it.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:13 @ Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air, and upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:14 @ All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height; for they are all given over to death, to the nether world among mortal men, with those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: When it goes down to Sheol I will make the deep mourn for it, and restrain its rivers, and many waters shall be stopped; I will clothe Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field shall faint because of it.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:16 @ I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be comforted in the nether world.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:18 @ Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether world; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:32:3 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples; and I will haul you up in my dragnet.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:5 @ I will strew your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:6 @ I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood; and the watercourses will be full of you.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:8 @ All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:9 @ "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I carry you captive among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:10 @ I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings shall shudder because of you, when I brandish my sword before them; they shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:12 @ I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most terrible among the nations. "They shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:13 @ I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them any more, nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:15 @ When I make the land of Egypt desolate and when the land is stripped of all that fills it, when I smite all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:18 @ "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the nether world, to those who have gone down to the Pit:

rsv@Ezekiel:32:20 @ They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword, and with her shall lie all her multitudes.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:22 @ "Assyria is there, and all her company, their graves round about her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

rsv@Ezekiel:32:23 @ whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the Pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:25 @ They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, their graves round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit; they are placed among the slain.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:26 @ "Meshech and Tubal are there, and all their multitude, their graves round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread terror in the land of the living.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:27 @ And they do not lie with the fallen mighty men of old who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose shields are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:29 @ "Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:30 @ "The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sido'nians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror which they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:31 @ "When Pharaoh sees them, he will comfort himself for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:3 @ and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people;

rsv@Ezekiel:33:4 @ then if any one who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any one of them; that man is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:9 @ But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:10 @ "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: `Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?'

rsv@Ezekiel:33:12 @ And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness; and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:13 @ Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in the iniquity that he has committed he shall die.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:14 @ Again, though I say to the wicked, `You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right,

rsv@Ezekiel:33:15 @ if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:18 @ When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:19 @ And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does what is lawful and right, he shall live by it.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:21 @ In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has fallen."

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:33:25 @ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

rsv@Ezekiel:33:26 @ You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?

rsv@Ezekiel:33:27 @ Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured; and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:28 @ And I will make the land a desolation and a waste; and her proud might shall come to an end; and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:29 @ Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:30 @ "As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, `Come, and hear what the word is that comes forth from the LORD.'

rsv@Ezekiel:33:33 @ When this comes--and come it will!--then they will know that a prophet has been among them."

rsv@Ezekiel:34:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ho, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

rsv@Ezekiel:34:3 @ You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:4 @ The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:8 @ As I live, says the Lord GOD, because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep;

rsv@Ezekiel:34:10 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and put a stop to their feeding the sheep; no longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:12 @ As a shepherd seeks out his flock when some of his sheep have been scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:13 @ And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the fountains, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:18 @ Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must foul the rest with your feet?

rsv@Ezekiel:34:25 @ "I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:26 @ And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:27 @ And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:2 @ "Son of man, set your face against Mount Se'ir, and prophesy against it,

rsv@Ezekiel:35:3 @ and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Se'ir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:4 @ I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:7 @ I will make Mount Se'ir a waste and a desolation; and I will cut off from it all who come and go.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:8 @ And I will fill your mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:9 @ I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:10 @ "Because you said, `These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them,'--although the LORD was there--

rsv@Ezekiel:35:12 @ And you shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all the revilings which you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, `They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.'

rsv@Ezekiel:35:13 @ And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:14 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: For the rejoicing of the whole earth I will make you desolate.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:15 @ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Se'ir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:1 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

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:36:3 @ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because, yea, because they made you desolate, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people;

rsv@Ezekiel:36:4 @ therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations round about;

rsv@Ezekiel:36:5 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I speak in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might possess it and plunder it.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:6 @ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I speak in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations;

rsv@Ezekiel:36:7 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are round about you shall themselves suffer reproach.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:8 @ "But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they will soon come home.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:10 @ and I will multiply men upon you, the whole house of Israel, all of it; the cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt;

rsv@Ezekiel:36:11 @ and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:12 @ Yea, I will let men walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:15 @ and I will not let you hear any more the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:36:17 @ "Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:19 @ I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their deeds I judged them.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:20 @ But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, `These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'

rsv@Ezekiel:36:23 @ And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:24 @ For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:25 @ I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:26 @ A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:27 @ And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:29 @ And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses; and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:31 @ Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:33 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:34 @ And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:35 @ And they will say, `This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now inhabited and fortified.'

rsv@Ezekiel:36:36 @ Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places, and replanted that which was desolate; I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:38 @ Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:37:1 @ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:3 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, thou knowest."

rsv@Ezekiel:37:4 @ Again he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:5 @ Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:6 @ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:37:7 @ So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:8 @ And as I looked, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:9 @ Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live."

rsv@Ezekiel:37:10 @ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great host.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:11 @ Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, `Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.'

rsv@Ezekiel:37:12 @ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:13 @ And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:18 @ And when your people say to you, `Will you not show us what you mean by these?'

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:37:20 @ When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,

rsv@Ezekiel:37:21 @ then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land;

rsv@Ezekiel:37:23 @ They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:24 @ "My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.

rsv@Ezekiel:37:26 @ I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him

rsv@Ezekiel:38:3 @ and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;

rsv@Ezekiel:38:4 @ and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords;

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:38:8 @ After many days you will be mustered; in the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land where people were gathered from many nations upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste; its people were brought out from the nations and now dwell securely, all of them.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:9 @ You will advance, coming on like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:11 @ and say, `I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates';

rsv@Ezekiel:38:12 @ to seize spoil and carry off plunder; to assail the waste places which are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:13 @ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its villages will say to you, `Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?'

rsv@Ezekiel:38:14 @ "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, you will bestir yourself

rsv@Ezekiel:38:15 @ and come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army;

rsv@Ezekiel:38:16 @ you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:17 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

rsv@Ezekiel:38:20 @ the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:22 @ With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:23 @ So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:1 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;

rsv@Ezekiel:39:4 @ You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples that are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the wild beasts to be devoured.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:9 @ "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, handpikes and spears, and they will make fires of them for seven years;

rsv@Ezekiel:39:10 @ so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons; they will despoil those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:15 @ And when these pass through the land and any one sees a man's bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:17 @ "As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, `Assemble and come, gather from all sides to the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:18 @ You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth--of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:20 @ And you shall be filled at my table with horses and riders, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,' says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:23 @ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:24 @ I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:25 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:27 @ when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:4 @ And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your mind upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel."

rsv@Ezekiel:40:5 @ And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length; so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:6 @ Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep;

rsv@Ezekiel:40:7 @ and the side rooms, one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:8 @ Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits;

rsv@Ezekiel:40:9 @ and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:14 @ He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits; and round about the vestibule of the gateway was the court.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:15 @ From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:16 @ And the gateway had windows round about, narrowing inwards into their jambs in the side rooms, and likewise the vestibule had windows round about inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:18 @ And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:21 @ Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:22 @ And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate which faced toward the east; and seven steps led up to it; and its vestibule was on the inside.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:24 @ And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south; and he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:25 @ And there were windows round about in it and in its vestibule, like the windows of the others; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:26 @ And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was on the inside; and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:29 @ Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others; and there were windows round about in it and in its vestibule; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:30 @ And there were vestibules round about, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:31 @ Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:33 @ Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others; and there were windows round about in it and in its vestibule; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:34 @ Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side; and its stairway had eight steps.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:36 @ Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others; and it had windows round about; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:37 @ Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side; and its stairway had eight steps.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:38 @ There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:39 @ And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:40 @ And on the outside of the vestibule at the entrance of the north gate were two tables; and on the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:41 @ Four tables were on the inside, and four tables on the outside of the side of the gate, eight tables, on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:42 @ And there were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:43 @ And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened round about within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:45 @ And he said to me, This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple,

rsv@Ezekiel:40:46 @ and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the LORD to minister to him.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:48 @ Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side; and the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits; and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:49 @ The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and ten steps led up to it; and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:6 @ And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:7 @ And the side chambers became broader as they rose from story to story, corresponding to the enlargement of the offset from story to story round about the temple; on the side of the temple a stairway led upward, and thus one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:9 @ The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and the part of the platform which was left free was five cubits. Between the platform of the temple and the

rsv@Ezekiel:41:12 @ The building that was facing the temple yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and its length ninety cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:15 @ Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard which was at the west and its walls on either side, a hundred cubits. The nave of the temple and the inner room and the outer vestibule

rsv@Ezekiel:41:16 @ were paneled and round about all three had windows with recessed frames. Over against the threshold the temple was paneled with wood round about, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

rsv@Ezekiel:41:17 @ to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls round about in the inner room and the nave were carved likenesses

rsv@Ezekiel:41:18 @ of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:

rsv@Ezekiel:41:20 @ from the floor to above the door cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:21 @ The doorposts of the nave were squared; and in front of the holy place was something resembling

rsv@Ezekiel:41:24 @ The doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:25 @ And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls; and there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:26 @ And there were recessed windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:3 @ Adjoining the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:5 @ Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:6 @ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; hence the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:9 @ Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court,

rsv@Ezekiel:42:13 @ Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings; there they shall put the most holy offerings--the cereal offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is holy.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:14 @ When the priests enter the holy place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people."

rsv@Ezekiel:42:19 @ Then he turned to the west side and measured, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:20 @ He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:3 @ And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:6 @ While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple;

rsv@Ezekiel:43:7 @ and he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, and by the dead bodies of their kings,

rsv@Ezekiel:43:8 @ by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:9 @ Now let them put away their idolatry and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst for ever.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:10 @ "And you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple and its appearance and plan, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:11 @ And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, portray the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, and its whole form; and make known to them all its ordinances and all its laws; and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe and perform all its laws and all its ordinances.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:13 @ "These are the dimensions of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high, and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar:

rsv@Ezekiel:43:18 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and for throwing blood against it,

rsv@Ezekiel:43:19 @ you shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, says the Lord GOD, a bull for a sin offering.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:24 @ You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:27 @ And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer upon the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:44:1 @ Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:3 @ Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way."

rsv@Ezekiel:44:5 @ And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the ordinances of the temple of the LORD and all its laws; and mark well those who may be admitted to the temple and all those who are to be excluded from the sanctuary.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:7 @ in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning it, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:9 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:10 @ But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:11 @ They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving in the temple; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall attend on the people, to serve them.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:13 @ They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my sacred things and the things that are most sacred; but they shall bear their shame, because of the abominations which they have committed.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:15 @ "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall attend on me to offer me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD;

rsv@Ezekiel:44:17 @ When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; they shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:18 @ They shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:19 @ And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, lest they communicate holiness to the people with their garments.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:21 @ No priest shall drink wine, when he enters the inner court.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:22 @ They shall not marry a widow, or a divorced woman, but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:24 @ In a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:25 @ They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person; however, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:27 @ And on the day that he goes into the holy place, into the inner court, to minister in the holy place, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:28 @ "They shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:30 @ And the first of all the first fruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests; you shall also give to the priests the first of your coarse meal, that a blessing may rest on your house.

rsv@Ezekiel:44:31 @ The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:1 @ "When you allot the land as a possession, you shall set apart for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, twenty-five thousand cubits long and twenty thousand cubits broad; it shall be holy throughout its whole extent.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:4 @ It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the LORD to minister to him; and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:5 @ Another section, twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:6 @ "Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the possession of the city an area five thousand cubits broad, and twenty-five thousand cubits long; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:7 @ "And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary of the land.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:8 @ It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:9 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:10 @ "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:15 @ and one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the families of Israel. This is the offering for cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:19 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:23 @ And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin offering.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:1 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:2 @ The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from without, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:8 @ When the prince enters, he shall go in by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:12 @ When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him; and he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:16 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons out of his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons, it is their property by inheritance.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:17 @ But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall revert to the prince; only his sons may keep a gift from his inheritance.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:18 @ The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property; he shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be dispossessed of his property."

rsv@Ezekiel:46:19 @ Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests; and there I saw a place at the extreme western end of them.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:20 @ And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the cereal offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so communicate holiness to the people."

rsv@Ezekiel:46:24 @ Then he said to me, "These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people."

rsv@Ezekiel:47:1 @ Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:2 @ Then he brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me round on the outside to the outer gate, that faces toward the east; and the water was coming out on the south side.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:7 @ As I went back, I saw upon the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other.

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:47:9 @ And wherever the river goes every living creature which swarms will live, and there will be very many fish; for this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:10 @ Fishermen will stand beside the sea; from En-ge'di to En-eg'laim it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:11 @ But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:12 @ And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing."

rsv@Ezekiel:47:13 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "These are the boundaries by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

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:47:19 @ "On the south side, it shall run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-ka'desh, thence along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This shall be the south side.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:20 @ "On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point opposite the entrance of Hamath. This shall be the west side.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:21 @ "So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:22 @ You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as native-born sons of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:23 @ In whatever tribe the alien resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:1 @ "These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern border, from the sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, as far as Hazar-e'non (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:2 @ Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:3 @ Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naph'tali, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:4 @ Adjoining the territory of Naph'tali, from the east side to the west, Manas'seh, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:5 @ Adjoining the territory of Manas'seh, from the east side to the west, E'phraim, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:6 @ Adjoining the territory of E'phraim, from the east side to the west, Reuben, one portion.

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:48:10 @ These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring twenty-five thousand cubits on the northern side, ten thousand cubits in breadth on the western side, ten thousand in breadth on the eastern side, and twenty-five thousand in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the LORD in the midst of it.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:11 @ This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:12 @ And it shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:13 @ And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in breadth. The whole length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits and the breadth twenty thousand.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:16 @ and these shall be its dimensions: the north side four thousand five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:17 @ And the city shall have open land: on the north two hundred and fifty cubits, on the south two hundred and fifty, on the east two hundred and fifty, and on the west two hundred and fifty.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:18 @ The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be ten thousand cubits to the east, and ten thousand to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:19 @ And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:21 @ "What remains on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the twenty-five thousand cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple in its midst,

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:48:23 @ "As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:24 @ Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:25 @ Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Is'sachar, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:26 @ Adjoining the territory of Is'sachar, from the east side to the west, Zeb'ulun, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:27 @ Adjoining the territory of Zeb'ulun, from the east side to the west, Gad, one portion.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:28 @ And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-ka'desh, thence along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:29 @ This is the land which you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their several portions, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:30 @ "These shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure,

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@Ezekiel:48:32 @ On the east side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Daniel.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:33 @ On the south side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Is'sachar, and the gate of Zeb'ulun.

rsv@Ezekiel:48:34 @ On the west side, which is to be four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naph'tali.

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:1:8 @ But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's rich food, or with the wine which he drank; therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

rsv@Daniel:1:10 @ and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear lest my lord the king, who appointed your food and your drink, should see that you were in poorer condition than the youths who are of your own age. So you would endanger my head with the king."

rsv@Daniel:1:12 @ "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

rsv@Daniel:1:14 @ So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

rsv@Daniel:1:15 @ At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's rich food.

rsv@Daniel:1:16 @ So the steward took away their rich food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

rsv@Daniel:1:17 @ As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all letters and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

rsv@Daniel:1:20 @ And in every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.

rsv@Daniel:2:5 @ The king answered the Chalde'ans, "The word from me is sure: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.

rsv@Daniel:2:9 @ that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation."

rsv@Daniel:2:11 @ The thing that the king asks is difficult, and none can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."

rsv@Daniel:2:12 @ Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

rsv@Daniel:2:16 @ And Daniel went in and besought the king to appoint him a time, that he might show to the king the interpretation.

rsv@Daniel:2:18 @ and told them to seek mercy of the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

rsv@Daniel:2:19 @ Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

rsv@Daniel:2:20 @ Daniel said: "Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever. to whom belong wisdom and might.

rsv@Daniel:2:21 @ He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;

rsv@Daniel:2:22 @ he reveals deep and mysterious things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

rsv@Daniel:2:24 @ Therefore Daniel went in to Ar'i-och, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him, "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation."

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:2:26 @ The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshaz'zar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?"

rsv@Daniel:2:28 @ but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnez'zar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:

rsv@Daniel:2:29 @ To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be hereafter, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be.

rsv@Daniel:2:31 @ "You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening.

rsv@Daniel:2:34 @ As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it smote the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces;

rsv@Daniel:2:35 @ then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

rsv@Daniel:2:40 @ And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes, it shall break and crush all these.

rsv@Daniel:2:41 @ And as you saw the feet and toes partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the miry clay.

rsv@Daniel:2:42 @ And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.

rsv@Daniel:2:43 @ As you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.

rsv@Daniel:2:44 @ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand for ever;

rsv@Daniel:2:45 @ just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure."

rsv@Daniel:2:47 @ The king said to Daniel, "Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery."

rsv@Daniel:2:49 @ Daniel made request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel remained at the king's court.

rsv@Daniel:3:2 @ Then King Nebuchadnez'zar sent to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnez'zar had set up.

rsv@Daniel:3:3 @ Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, were assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnez'zar had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnez'zar had set up.

rsv@Daniel:3:4 @ And the herald proclaimed aloud, "You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

rsv@Daniel:3:6 @ and whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace."

rsv@Daniel:3:7 @ Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image which King Nebuchadnez'zar had set up.

rsv@Daniel:3:11 @ and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.

rsv@Daniel:3:12 @ There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego. These men, O king, pay no heed to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."

rsv@Daniel:3:13 @ Then Nebuchadnez'zar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego be brought. Then they brought these men before the king.

rsv@Daniel:3:14 @ Nebuchadnez'zar said to them, "Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image which I have set up?

rsv@Daniel:3:16 @ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego answered the king, "O Nebuchadnez'zar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

rsv@Daniel:3:19 @ Then Nebuchadnez'zar was full of fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

rsv@Daniel:3:20 @ And he ordered certain mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

rsv@Daniel:3:21 @ Then these men were bound in their mantles, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were cast into the burning fiery furnace.

rsv@Daniel:3:22 @ Because the king's order was strict and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego.

rsv@Daniel:3:23 @ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace.

rsv@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nebuchadnez'zar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego, servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego came out from the fire.

rsv@Daniel:3:27 @ And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men; the hair of their heads was not singed, their mantles were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.

rsv@Daniel:3:28 @ Nebuchadnez'zar said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set at nought the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.

rsv@Daniel:3:29 @ Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins; for there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way."

rsv@Daniel:3:30 @ Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego in the province of Babylon.

rsv@Daniel:4:1 @ King Nebuchadnez'zar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!

rsv@Daniel:4:5 @ I had a dream which made me afraid; as I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me.

rsv@Daniel:4:8 @ At last Daniel came in before me--he who was named Belteshaz'zar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods--and I told him the dream, saying,

rsv@Daniel:4:9 @ "O Belteshaz'zar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is difficult for you, here is the dream which I saw; tell me its interpretation.

rsv@Daniel:4:10 @ The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great.

rsv@Daniel:4:12 @ Its leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the air dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

rsv@Daniel:4:14 @ He cried aloud and said thus, `Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit; let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.

rsv@Daniel:4:16 @ let his mind be changed from a man's, and let a beast's mind be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.

rsv@Daniel:4:17 @ The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men.'

rsv@Daniel:4:18 @ This dream I, King Nebuchadnez'zar, saw. And you, O Belteshaz'zar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you."

rsv@Daniel:4:19 @ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshaz'zar, was dismayed for a moment, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king said, "Belteshaz'zar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you." Belteshaz'zar answered, "My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!

rsv@Daniel:4:21 @ whose leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all; under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the air dwelt--

rsv@Daniel:4:22 @ it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.

rsv@Daniel:4:23 @ And whereas the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, `Hew down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let him be wet with the dew of heaven; and let his lot be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him';

rsv@Daniel:4:25 @ that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will.

rsv@Daniel:4:26 @ And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be sure for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules.

rsv@Daniel:4:27 @ Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you; break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your tranquillity."

rsv@Daniel:4:30 @ and the king said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?"

rsv@Daniel:4:32 @ and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and you shall be made to eat grass like an ox; and seven times shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will."

rsv@Daniel:4:33 @ Immediately the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnez'zar. He was driven from among men, and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws.

rsv@Daniel:4:34 @ At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnez'zar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives for ever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

rsv@Daniel:4:35 @ all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing; and he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What doest thou?"

rsv@Daniel:4:36 @ At the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.

rsv@Daniel:5:2 @ Belshaz'zar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver which Nebuchadnez'zar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

rsv@Daniel:5:3 @ Then they brought in the golden and silver vessels which had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

rsv@Daniel:5:6 @ Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

rsv@Daniel:5:12 @ because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshaz'zar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show 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:5:17 @ Then Daniel answered before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.

rsv@Daniel:5:18 @ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnez'zar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty;

rsv@Daniel:5:19 @ and because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.

rsv@Daniel:5:21 @ he was driven from among men, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of men, and sets over it whom he will.

rsv@Daniel:5:23 @ but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

rsv@Daniel:5:24 @ "Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.

rsv@Daniel:5:27 @ TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

rsv@Daniel:5:28 @ PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

rsv@Daniel:6:2 @ and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.

rsv@Daniel:6:3 @ Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.

rsv@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom; but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.

rsv@Daniel:6:5 @ Then these men said, "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God."

rsv@Daniel:6:6 @ Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, "O King Darius, live for ever!

rsv@Daniel:6:7 @ All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an interdict, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

rsv@Daniel:6:8 @ Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked."

rsv@Daniel:6:10 @ When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem; and he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

rsv@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

rsv@Daniel:6:12 @ Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the interdict, "O king! Did you not sign an interdict, that any man who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered, "The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked."

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:6:14 @ Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed, and set his mind to deliver Daniel; and he labored till the sun went down to rescue him.

rsv@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men came by agreement to the king, and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance which the king establishes can be changed."

rsv@Daniel:6:22 @ My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no wrong."

rsv@Daniel:6:24 @ And the king commanded, and those men who had accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions--they, their children, and their wives; and before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

rsv@Daniel:6:25 @ Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: "Peace be multiplied to you.

rsv@Daniel:6:26 @ I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring for ever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.

rsv@Daniel:6:27 @ He delivers and rescues, he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions."

rsv@Daniel:7:4 @ The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand upon two feet like a man; and the mind of a man was given to it.

rsv@Daniel:7:5 @ And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side; it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, `Arise, devour much flesh.'

rsv@Daniel:7:7 @ After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrible and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

rsv@Daniel:7:8 @ I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

rsv@Daniel:7:9 @ As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ancient of days took his seat; his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, its wheels were burning fire.

rsv@Daniel:7:10 @ A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

rsv@Daniel:7:11 @ I looked then because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.

rsv@Daniel:7:12 @ As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

rsv@Daniel:7:13 @ I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.

rsv@Daniel:7:14 @ And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

rsv@Daniel:7:17 @ `These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.

rsv@Daniel:7:18 @ But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, for ever and ever.'

rsv@Daniel:7:19 @ "Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrible, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze; and which devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

rsv@Daniel:7:20 @ and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, the horn which had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and which seemed greater than its fellows.

rsv@Daniel:7:23 @ "Thus he said: `As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.

rsv@Daniel:7:24 @ As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.

rsv@Daniel:7:25 @ He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time.

rsv@Daniel:7:26 @ But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end.

rsv@Daniel:7:27 @ And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.'

rsv@Daniel:8:3 @ I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the river. It had two horns; and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

rsv@Daniel:8:4 @ I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward; no beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power; he did as he pleased and magnified himself.

rsv@Daniel:8:5 @ As I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.

rsv@Daniel:8:7 @ I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns; and the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled upon him; and there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.

rsv@Daniel:8:12 @ And the host was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through transgression; and truth was cast down to the ground, and the horn acted and prospered.

rsv@Daniel:8:13 @ Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the one that spoke, "For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled under foot?"

rsv@Daniel:8:14 @ And he said to him, "For two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state."

rsv@Daniel:8:20 @ As for the ram which you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.

rsv@Daniel:8:21 @ And the he-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

rsv@Daniel:8:23 @ And at the latter end of their rule, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance, one who understands riddles, shall arise.

rsv@Daniel:8:24 @ His power shall be great, and he shall cause fearful destruction, and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people of the saints.

rsv@Daniel:8:25 @ By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall magnify himself. Without warning he shall destroy many; and he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes; but, by no human hand, he shall be broken.

rsv@Daniel:8:27 @ And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days; then I rose and went about the king's business; but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.

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:9:3 @ Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

rsv@Daniel:9:4 @ I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, "O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepest covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

rsv@Daniel:9:5 @ we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from thy commandments and ordinances;

rsv@Daniel:9:6 @ we have not listened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

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@Daniel:9:8 @ To us, O Lord, belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

rsv@Daniel:9:9 @ To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness; because we have rebelled against him,

rsv@Daniel:9:11 @ All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.

rsv@Daniel:9:13 @ As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us, yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and giving heed to thy truth.

rsv@Daniel:9:16 @ O Lord, according to all thy righteous acts, let thy anger and thy wrath turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people have become a byword among all who are round about us.

rsv@Daniel:9:17 @ Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplications, and for thy own sake, O Lord, cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate.

rsv@Daniel:9:18 @ O my God, incline thy ear and hear; open thy eyes and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name; for we do not present our supplications before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy great mercy.

rsv@Daniel:9:20 @ While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God;

rsv@Daniel:9:24 @ "Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

rsv@Daniel:9:25 @ Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

rsv@Daniel:9:26 @ And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

rsv@Daniel:9:27 @ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."

rsv@Daniel:10:1 @ In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshaz'zar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.

rsv@Daniel:10:3 @ I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

rsv@Daniel:10:5 @ I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz.

rsv@Daniel:10:6 @ His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the noise of a multitude.

rsv@Daniel:10:7 @ And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.

rsv@Daniel:10:10 @ And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

rsv@Daniel:10:13 @ The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, so I left him there with the prince of the kingdom of Persia

rsv@Daniel:10:15 @ When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and was dumb.

rsv@Daniel:10:16 @ And behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, "O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.

rsv@Daniel:10:21 @ But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

rsv@Daniel:11:2 @ "And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia; and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them; and when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.

rsv@Daniel:11:4 @ And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.

rsv@Daniel:11:5 @ "Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and his dominion shall be a great dominion.

rsv@Daniel:11:6 @ After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make peace; but she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his offspring shall not endure; but she shall be given up, and her attendants, her child, and he who got possession of her.

rsv@Daniel:11:7 @ "In those times a branch from her roots shall arise in his place; he shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.

rsv@Daniel:11:8 @ He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their molten images and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.

rsv@Daniel:11:10 @ "His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.

rsv@Daniel:11:13 @ For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the former; and after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.

rsv@Daniel:11:14 @ "In those times many shall rise against the king of the south; and the men of violence among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfil the vision; but they shall fail.

rsv@Daniel:11:15 @ Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks, and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his picked troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.

rsv@Daniel:11:16 @ But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and all of it shall be in his power.

rsv@Daniel:11:17 @ He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of peace and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom; but it shall not stand or be to his advantage.

rsv@Daniel:11:19 @ Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

rsv@Daniel:11:21 @ In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given; he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

rsv@Daniel:11:22 @ Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, and the prince of the covenant also.

rsv@Daniel:11:24 @ Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province; and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.

rsv@Daniel:11:27 @ And as for the two kings, their minds shall be bent on mischief; they shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail; for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.

rsv@Daniel:11:31 @ Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

rsv@Daniel:11:34 @ When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;

rsv@Daniel:11:38 @ He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these; a god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.

rsv@Daniel:11:39 @ He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god; those who acknowledge him he shall magnify with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price.

rsv@Daniel:11:40 @ "At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him; but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.

rsv@Daniel:11:41 @ He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.

rsv@Daniel:11:42 @ He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

rsv@Daniel:11:43 @ He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall follow in his train.

rsv@Daniel:11:44 @ But tidings from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go forth with great fury to exterminate and utterly destroy many.

rsv@Daniel:12:3 @ And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

rsv@Daniel:12:6 @ And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, "How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?"

rsv@Daniel:12:7 @ The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives for ever that it would be for a time, two times, and half a time; and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be accomplished.

rsv@Daniel:12:8 @ I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?"

rsv@Daniel:12:10 @ Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

rsv@Daniel:12:11 @ And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

rsv@Daniel:12:12 @ Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

rsv@Daniel:12:13 @ But go your way till the end; and you shall rest, and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days."

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:2:3 @ lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

rsv@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.

rsv@Hosea:2:10 @ Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

rsv@Hosea:2:12 @ And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, `These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

rsv@Hosea:2:14 @ "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

rsv@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will remove the names of the Ba'als from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.

rsv@Hosea:2:19 @ And I will betroth you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.

rsv@Hosea:2:20 @ I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.

rsv@Hosea:3:1 @ And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the LORD loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."

rsv@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.

rsv@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel; for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land;

rsv@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.

rsv@Hosea:4:5 @ You shall stumble by day, the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.

rsv@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

rsv@Hosea:4:9 @ And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and requite them for their deeds.

rsv@Hosea:4:12 @ My people inquire of a thing of wood, and their staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the harlot.

rsv@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

rsv@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.

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:4:18 @ A band of drunkards, they give themselves to harlotry; they love shame more than their glory.

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:5:7 @ They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

rsv@Hosea:5:9 @ E'phraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

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:5:11 @ E'phraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

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:5:15 @ I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,

rsv@Hosea:6:3 @ Let us know, let us press on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth."

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:6:5 @ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.

rsv@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.

rsv@Hosea:6:7 @ But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

rsv@Hosea:6:9 @ As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the way to Shechem, yea, they commit villainy.

rsv@Hosea:6:11 @ For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,

rsv@Hosea:7:3 @ By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.

rsv@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

rsv@Hosea:7:5 @ On the day of our king the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

rsv@Hosea:7:6 @ For like an oven their hearts burn with intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

rsv@Hosea:7:8 @ E'phraim mixes himself with the peoples; E'phraim is a cake not turned.

rsv@Hosea:7:10 @ The pride of Israel witnesses against him; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.

rsv@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

rsv@Hosea:7:14 @ They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves, they rebel against me.

rsv@Hosea:7:16 @ They turn to Ba'al; they are like a treacherous bow, their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

rsv@Hosea:8:1 @ Set the trumpet to your lips, for a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law.

rsv@Hosea:8:4 @ They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.

rsv@Hosea:8:6 @ in Israel? A workman made it; it is not God. The calf of Sama'ria shall be broken to pieces.

rsv@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

rsv@Hosea:8:10 @ Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.

rsv@Hosea:8:13 @ They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the LORD has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

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:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved a harlot's hire upon all threshing floors.

rsv@Hosea:9:2 @ Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.

rsv@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not pour libations of wine to the LORD; and they shall not please him with their sacrifices. Their bread shall be like mourners' bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD.

rsv@Hosea:9:5 @ What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD?

rsv@Hosea:9:6 @ For behold, they are going to Assyria; Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

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:9:10 @ Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Ba'al-pe'or, and consecrated themselves to Ba'al, and became detestable like the thing they loved.

rsv@Hosea:9:13 @ E'phraim's sons, as I have seen, are destined for a prey; E'phraim must lead forth his sons to slaughter.

rsv@Hosea:9:15 @ Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

rsv@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.

rsv@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Sama'ria tremble for the calf of Beth-a'ven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory which has departed from it.

rsv@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us.

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:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.

rsv@Hosea:10:13 @ You have plowed iniquity, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots and in the multitude of your warriors,

rsv@Hosea:10:14 @ therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-ar'bel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

rsv@Hosea:10:15 @ Thus it shall be done to you, O house of Israel, because of your great wickedness. In the storm the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.

rsv@Hosea:11:4 @ I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one, who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.

rsv@Hosea:11:6 @ The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.

rsv@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy E'phraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.

rsv@Hosea:11:10 @ They shall go after the LORD, he will roar like a lion; yea, he will roar, and his sons shall come trembling from the west;

rsv@Hosea:11:11 @ they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes, says the LORD.

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:12:1 @ E'phraim herds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a bargain with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

rsv@Hosea:12:7 @ A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

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@Hosea:12:10 @ I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.

rsv@Hosea:12:13 @ By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

rsv@Hosea:12:14 @ E'phraim has given bitter provocation; so his LORD will leave his bloodguilt upon him, and will turn back upon him his reproaches.

rsv@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skilfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. Sacrifice to these, they say. Men kiss calves!

rsv@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

rsv@Hosea:13:4 @ I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

rsv@Hosea:13:5 @ It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;

rsv@Hosea:13:7 @ So I will be to them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

rsv@Hosea:13:9 @ I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you?

rsv@Hosea:13:10 @ Where now is your king, to save you; where are all your princes, to defend you--those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"?

rsv@Hosea:13:13 @ The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

rsv@Hosea:13:14 @ Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.

rsv@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he may flourish as the reed plant, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

rsv@Hosea:13:16 @ Sama'ria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

rsv@Hosea:14:3 @ Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more, `Our God,' to the work of our hands. In thee the orphan finds mercy."

rsv@Hosea:14:4 @ I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

rsv@Hosea:14:8 @ O E'phraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me comes your fruit.

rsv@Hosea:14:9 @ Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

rsv@Joel:1:4 @ What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

rsv@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and without number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

rsv@Joel:1:7 @ It has laid waste my vines, and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.

rsv@Joel:1:9 @ The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.

rsv@Joel:1:10 @ The fields are laid waste, the ground mourns; because the grain is destroyed, the wine fails, the oil languishes.

rsv@Joel:1:11 @ Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

rsv@Joel:1:12 @ The vine withers, the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are withered; and gladness fails from the sons of men.

rsv@Joel:1:13 @ Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

rsv@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

rsv@Joel:1:16 @ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

rsv@Joel:1:17 @ The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed.

rsv@Joel:1:19 @ Unto thee, O LORD, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.

rsv@Joel:1:20 @ Even the wild beasts cry to thee because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

rsv@Joel:2:2 @ a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

rsv@Joel:2:3 @ Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

rsv@Joel:2:4 @ Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.

rsv@Joel:2:6 @ Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces grow pale.

rsv@Joel:2:8 @ They do not jostle one another, each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.

rsv@Joel:2:9 @ They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

rsv@Joel:2:10 @ The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

rsv@Joel:2:11 @ The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his host is exceedingly great; he that executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; who can endure it?

rsv@Joel:2:14 @ Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the LORD, your God?

rsv@Joel:2:17 @ Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare thy people, O LORD, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, `Where is their God?'"

rsv@Joel:2:20 @ "I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his front into the eastern sea, and his rear into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.

rsv@Joel:2:22 @ Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their full yield.

rsv@Joel:2:24 @ "The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

rsv@Joel:2:25 @ I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.

rsv@Joel:2:28 @ "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

rsv@Joel:2:31 @ The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

rsv@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the LORD shall be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

rsv@Joel:3:1 @ "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

rsv@Joel:3:5 @ For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

rsv@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."

rsv@Joel:3:11 @ Hasten and come, all you nations round about, gather yourselves there. Bring down thy warriors, O LORD.

rsv@Joel:3:12 @ Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehosh'aphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.

rsv@Joel:3:13 @ Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

rsv@Joel:3:14 @ Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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@Amos:1:2 @ And he said: "The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers."

rsv@Amos:1:3 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

rsv@Amos:1:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.

rsv@Amos:1:8 @ I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him that holds the scepter from Ash'kelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Amos:1:9 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

rsv@Amos:1:11 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

rsv@Amos:1:13 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have ripped up women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

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:1:15 @ and their king shall go into exile, he and his princes together," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:2:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

rsv@Amos:2:3 @ I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him," says the LORD.

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:2:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes--

rsv@Amos:2:8 @ they lay themselves down beside every altar upon garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

rsv@Amos:2:9 @ "Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above, and his roots beneath.

rsv@Amos:2:10 @ Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

rsv@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?" says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:2:12 @ "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, `You shall not prophesy.'

rsv@Amos:2:13 @ "Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

rsv@Amos:2:15 @ he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

rsv@Amos:3:2 @ "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

rsv@Amos:3:3 @ "Do two walk together, unless they have made an appointment?

rsv@Amos:3:4 @ Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?

rsv@Amos:3:5 @ Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?

rsv@Amos:3:6 @ Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the LORD has done it?

rsv@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

rsv@Amos:3:8 @ The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?"

rsv@Amos:3:9 @ Proclaim to the strongholds in Assyria, and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Sama'ria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressions in her midst."

rsv@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "An adversary shall surround the land, and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered."

rsv@Amos:3:12 @ Thus says the LORD: "As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Sama'ria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed."

rsv@Amos:3:13 @ "Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

rsv@Amos:3:14 @ "that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

rsv@Amos:3:15 @ I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:1 @ "Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Sama'ria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, `Bring, that we may drink!'

rsv@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.

rsv@Amos:4:3 @ And you shall go out through the breaches, every one straight before her; and you shall be cast forth into Harmon," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:4 @ "Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;

rsv@Amos:4:6 @ "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:7 @ "And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain upon one city, and send no rain upon another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;

rsv@Amos:4:8 @ so two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:9 @ "I smote you with blight and mildew; I laid waste your gardens and your vineyards; your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:10 @ "I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword; I carried away your horses; and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:13 @ For lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth--the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!

rsv@Amos:5:6 @ Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

rsv@Amos:5:7 @ O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

rsv@Amos:5:8 @ He who made the Plei'ades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,

rsv@Amos:5:9 @ who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.

rsv@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.

rsv@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

rsv@Amos:5:12 @ For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins--you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

rsv@Amos:5:15 @ Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

rsv@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

rsv@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light;

rsv@Amos:5:20 @ Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

rsv@Amos:5:21 @ "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

rsv@Amos:5:24 @ But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

rsv@Amos:5:25 @ "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

rsv@Amos:5:26 @ You shall take up Sakkuth your king, and Kaiwan your star-god, your images, which you made for yourselves;

rsv@Amos:6:2 @ Pass over to Calneh, and see; and thence go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,

rsv@Amos:6:4 @ "Woe to those who lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

rsv@Amos:6:5 @ who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and like David invent for themselves instruments of music;

rsv@Amos:6:6 @ who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

rsv@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore they shall now be the first of those to go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves shall pass away."

rsv@Amos:6:10 @ And when a man's kinsman, he who burns him, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still any one with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD."

rsv@Amos:6:12 @ Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--

rsv@Amos:6:13 @ you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, "Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?"

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:7:2 @ When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

rsv@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

rsv@Amos:7:7 @ He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

rsv@Amos:7:9 @ the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jerobo'am with the sword."

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:7:13 @ but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."

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:7:15 @ and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, `Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

rsv@Amos:7:16 @ "Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say, `Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'

rsv@Amos:8:3 @ The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," says the Lord GOD; "the dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast out in silence."

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:8:10 @ I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

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@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the LORD standing beside the altar, and he said: "Smite the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and what are left of them I will slay with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape.

rsv@Amos:9:3 @ Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

rsv@Amos:9:4 @ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good."

rsv@Amos:9:5 @ The Lord, GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

rsv@Amos:9:7 @ "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" says the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?

rsv@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:9:9 @ "For lo, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.

rsv@Amos:9:11 @ "In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;

rsv@Amos:9:12 @ that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," says the LORD who does this.

rsv@Amos:9:13 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.

rsv@Amos:9:14 @ I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

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:1:4 @ 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:1:11 @ 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:1:14 @ 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:1:17 @ 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:1:2 @ "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:1:10 @ 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: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:3:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

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: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@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:1:5 @ 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:1:10 @ 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:1:13 @ 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:1:16 @ 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:2:4 @ 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:2:7 @ 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:2:9 @ 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: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:3:6 @ 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:3:8 @ 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:3:11 @ 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: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:4:3 @ 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:4:5 @ 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:4:10 @ 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:5:3 @ 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: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:6:6 @ "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:6:15 @ 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:7:3 @ 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:7:8 @ 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:7:13 @ 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:7:18 @ 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:1:2 @ 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:1:4 @ 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:1:8 @ 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: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:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.

rsv@Nahum:2:6 @ 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:2:10 @ Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!

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:3:3 @ 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:3:8 @ Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?

rsv@Nahum:3:10 @ 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:3:12 @ 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:3:15 @ 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@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:4 @ So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:7 @ Dread and terrible are they; their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:8 @ Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:9 @ They all come for violence; terror of them goes before them. They gather captives like sand.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:10 @ At kings they scoff, and of rulers they make sport. They laugh at every fortress, for they heap up earth and take it.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them as a judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established them for chastisement.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:13 @ Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

rsv@Habakkuk:1:14 @ For thou makest men like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:15 @ He brings all of them up with a hook, he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he rejoices and exults.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his seine; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?

rsv@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples."

rsv@Habakkuk:2:6 @ Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, in scoffing derision of him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own--for how long?--and loads himself with pledges!"

rsv@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

rsv@Habakkuk:2:9 @ Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

rsv@Habakkuk:2:10 @ You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

rsv@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

rsv@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for nought?

rsv@Habakkuk:2:15 @ Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink of the cup of his wrath, and makes them drunk, to gaze on their shame!

rsv@Habakkuk:2:17 @ The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

rsv@Habakkuk:2:18 @ What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!

rsv@Habakkuk:3:4 @ His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Was thy wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was thy anger against the rivers, or thy indignation against the sea, when thou didst ride upon thy horses, upon thy chariot of victory?

rsv@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.

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@Habakkuk:3:15 @ Thou didst trample the sea with thy horses, the surging of mighty waters.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:16 @ I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:17 @ Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,

rsv@Habakkuk:3:19 @ GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like hinds' feet, he makes me tread upon my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

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:1:7 @ 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:1:12 @ 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: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:2:13 @ 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:3:8 @ "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:3:13 @ 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:3:15 @ 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:3:17 @ 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:1:4 @ "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

rsv@Haggai:1:6 @ You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

rsv@Haggai:1:9 @ You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while you busy yourselves each with his own house.

rsv@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, and Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared before the LORD.

rsv@Haggai:1:13 @ Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD's message, "I am with you, says the LORD."

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:2:4 @ Yet now take courage, O Zerub'babel, says the LORD; take courage, O Joshua, son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of the land, says the LORD; work, for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts,

rsv@Haggai:2:5 @ according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit abides among you; fear not.

rsv@Haggai:2:7 @ and I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Haggai:2:11 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests to decide this question,

rsv@Haggai:2:12 @ `If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches with his skirt bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."

rsv@Haggai:2:13 @ Then said Haggai, "If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered, "It does become unclean."

rsv@Haggai:2:16 @ how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

rsv@Haggai:2:19 @ Is the seed yet in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you."

rsv@Haggai:2:22 @ and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders; and the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his fellow.

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:1:8 @ "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:1:17 @ 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:1:21 @ 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:2:4 @ 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:2:7 @ 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:2:11 @ 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:2:13 @ 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:3:7 @ "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: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:4:10 @ 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:5:3 @ 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:5:8 @ 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: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:6:8 @ 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:6:10 @ "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:6:13 @ 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: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:7:5 @ "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:7:9 @ "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:7:12 @ 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:7:14 @ "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:8:6 @ 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:8:12 @ 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:8:15 @ 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:8:19 @ "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:8:22 @ 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: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:9:4 @ 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:9:7 @ 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:9:11 @ 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: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:10:5 @ 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:10:9 @ 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:10:11 @ 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: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:11:5 @ 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:11:8 @ 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:11:12 @ 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:11:15 @ 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:12:2 @ "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:12:8 @ 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:12:12 @ 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:13:9 @ 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:14:2 @ 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:14:4 @ 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:14:8 @ 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:14:10 @ 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:14:12 @ 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:14:15 @ 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:14:20 @ 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:1:2 @ "I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How hast thou loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob

rsv@Malachi:1:3 @ but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert."

rsv@Malachi:1:5 @ Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the LORD, beyond the border of Israel!"

rsv@Malachi:1:6 @ "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, `How have we despised thy name?'

rsv@Malachi:1:7 @ By offering polluted food upon my altar. And you say, `How have we polluted it?' By thinking that the LORD's table may be despised.

rsv@Malachi:1:8 @ When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that no evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that no evil? Present that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:1:12 @ But you profane it when you say that the LORD's table is polluted, and the food for it may be despised.

rsv@Malachi:1:13 @ `What a weariness this is,' you say, and you sniff at me, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD.

rsv@Malachi:1:14 @ Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished; for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the nations.

rsv@Malachi:2:1 @ "And now, O priests, this command is for you.

rsv@Malachi:2:2 @ If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

rsv@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.

rsv@Malachi:2:6 @ True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.

rsv@Malachi:2:7 @ For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:2:9 @ and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction."

rsv@Malachi:2:10 @ Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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:2:12 @ May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob, for the man who does this, any to witness or answer, or to bring an offering to the LORD of hosts!

rsv@Malachi:2:14 @ You ask, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness to the covenant between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

rsv@Malachi:2:15 @ Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.

rsv@Malachi:2:16 @ "For I hate divorce, says the LORD the God of Israel, and covering one's garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless."

rsv@Malachi:2:17 @ You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

rsv@Malachi:3:1 @ "Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:3:3 @ he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, till they present right offerings to the LORD.

rsv@Malachi:3:5 @ "Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:3:7 @ From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, `How shall we return?'

rsv@Malachi:3:8 @ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.

rsv@Malachi:3:10 @ Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.

rsv@Malachi:3:11 @ I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil; and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:3:12 @ Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:3:15 @ Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.'"

rsv@Malachi:3:17 @ "They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

rsv@Malachi:3:18 @ Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

rsv@Malachi:4:1 @ "For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

rsv@Malachi:4:2 @ But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

rsv@Malachi:4:3 @ And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:4:4 @ "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

rsv@Malachi:4:5 @ "Behold, I will send you Eli'jah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

rsv@Malachi:4:6 @ And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse."

rsv@Matthew:1:1 @ The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.


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