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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:1:14 @ 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:1:21 @ 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:1:24 @ 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:1:28 @ 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:1:30 @ 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: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:2:7 @ 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:2:9 @ 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:2:12 @ and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

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:2:19 @ 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:2:24 @ Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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:3:6 @ 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:3:9 @ But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

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:3:16 @ 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:3:23 @ 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:4:3 @ In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,

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

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:4:15 @ 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:4:18 @ 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:4:23 @ 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:4:26 @ 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:5:24 @ Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

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: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:6:4 @ 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:6:6 @ And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

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:6:15 @ 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: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:7:3 @ 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:7:7 @ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.

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

rsv@Genesis:7:14 @ 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: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:8:7 @ 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:8:11 @ 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:8:15 @ Then God said to Noah,

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

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

rsv@Genesis:9:2 @ 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:9:8 @ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

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:9:15 @ 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:9:17 @ 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:9:22 @ 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:10:1 @ These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; sons were born to them after the flood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Genesis:10:32 @ 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:11:3 @ 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:11:29 @ And Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sar'ai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.

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

rsv@Genesis: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:12:4 @ 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:12:15 @ And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

rsv@Genesis:12:18 @ 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: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:13:3 @ 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:13:6 @ 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:13:8 @ 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:13:14 @ 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:13:17 @ 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:14:7 @ 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:14:10 @ 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:14:15 @ 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:14:17 @ 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:14:20 @ 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: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:15:4 @ 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:15:13 @ 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:15:15 @ As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

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: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:16:9 @ 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:16:13 @ 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:16:16 @ 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:17:3 @ Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him,

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

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

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

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

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: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:18:5 @ 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:18:16 @ 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:18:19 @ 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:18:21 @ 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:18:25 @ 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:18:27 @ Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

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:18:31 @ 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:18:33 @ 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:19:8 @ 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:19:12 @ 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:19:16 @ 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:19:23 @ 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:19:27 @ 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:19:30 @ 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:19:34 @ 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:19:37 @ 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:20:5 @ 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:20:13 @ 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:20:16 @ 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: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:21:5 @ Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Genesis:21:17 @ 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:21:21 @ 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:21:25 @ 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:21:29 @ And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?"

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: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:22:5 @ 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:22:19 @ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

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

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

rsv@Genesis: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:23:7 @ 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:23:11 @ "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:23:13 @ 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:23:15 @ "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:23:20 @ 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:24:2 @ 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:24:4 @ 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:24:20 @ 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:24:27 @ 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:24:32 @ 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:24:36 @ 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:24:38 @ 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:24:47 @ 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:24:52 @ 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:24:56 @ 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:24:58 @ And they called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

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:24:63 @ 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:24:65 @ 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:25:5 @ 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:25:8 @ 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:25:12 @ These are the descendants of Ish'mael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham.

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:25:20 @ 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:25:30 @ 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:25:32 @ 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: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:26:7 @ 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:26:9 @ 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:26:15 @ (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:26:18 @ 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:26:23 @ 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:26:26 @ 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:26:29 @ 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:26:31 @ 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: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:27:3 @ 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:27:9 @ 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:27:17 @ 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:27:25 @ 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:27:29 @ 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:27:31 @ 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:27:36 @ 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:27:41 @ 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:27:45 @ 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:28:2 @ 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:28:4 @ 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:28:9 @ 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:28:18 @ 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:28:20 @ 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:29:10 @ 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:29:12 @ 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:29:19 @ 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:29:28 @ 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:29:34 @ 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: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:30:3 @ 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:30:9 @ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

rsv@Genesis:30:14 @ 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:30:22 @ Then God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

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:30:27 @ 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:30:29 @ Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.

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:30:37 @ 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:30:40 @ 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: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:31:7 @ yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.

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

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:31:16 @ 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:31:18 @ 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:31:28 @ 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:31:32 @ 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:31:35 @ 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:31:39 @ 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:31:43 @ 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:31:45 @ 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:31:48 @ Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed,

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:31:54 @ 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: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:32:13 @ So he lodged there that night, and took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau,

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:32:22 @ 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:32:25 @ 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:32:27 @ And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."

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:32:32 @ 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:33:3 @ 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:33:8 @ 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:33:10 @ 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:33:13 @ 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:33:16 @ 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:34:1 @ Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;

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

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

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:34:14 @ 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:34:19 @ 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:34:22 @ 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:34:24 @ 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:34:28 @ they took their flocks and their herds, their asses, and whatever was in the city and in the field;

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: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:35:6 @ 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:35:9 @ 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:35:14 @ 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:35:17 @ And when she was in her hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Fear not; for now you will have another son."

rsv@Genesis:35:19 @ 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:35:26 @ 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:35:29 @ 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:36:2 @ Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholiba'mah the daughter of Anah the son of Zib'eon the Hivite,

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

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

rsv@Genesis:36:6 @ 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:36:12 @ (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:36:14 @ 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:36:30 @ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their clans in the land of Se'ir.

rsv@Genesis:36:40 @ 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:36:43 @ 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:37:2 @ 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:37:4 @ 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:37:12 @ 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:37:17 @ 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:37:22 @ 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:37:35 @ 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:38:6 @ And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

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:38:11 @ 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:38:18 @ 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:38:20 @ When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he could not find her.

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

rsv@Genesis:38:24 @ 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:38:28 @ 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: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:39:3 @ 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:39:8 @ 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:39:10 @ 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:39:14 @ 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:39:17 @ 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:39:19 @ 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:39:22 @ 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:40:3 @ 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:40:6 @ 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:40:21 @ 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: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:41:8 @ 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:41:12 @ 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:41:15 @ 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:41:17 @ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile;

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:41:28 @ It is as I told Pharaoh, God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

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:41:34 @ 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:41:36 @ 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:41:41 @ 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:41:48 @ 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:41:53 @ 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:42:3 @ So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

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:42:9 @ 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:42:12 @ He said to them, "No, it is the weakness of the land that you have come to see."

rsv@Genesis:42:14 @ But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you, 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:42:20 @ 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:42:27 @ 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:42:33 @ 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:42:36 @ 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:43:2 @ 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:43:5 @ 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:43:11 @ 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:43:13 @ Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man;

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:43:26 @ 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:43:29 @ 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:43:32 @ 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:44:2 @ 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:44:4 @ 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:44:6 @ 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:44:11 @ Then every man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and every man opened his 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:44:20 @ 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:44:27 @ 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:45:3 @ 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:45:7 @ 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:45:11 @ 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:45:17 @ 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:45:20 @ 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: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:46:13 @ The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

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

rsv@Genesis:46:20 @ 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:46:22 @ (these are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all).

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:46:34 @ 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:47:8 @ 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:47:12 @ And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

rsv@Genesis:47:14 @ 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:47:17 @ 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:47:21 @ and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

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:47:29 @ 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:47:31 @ 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:48:9 @ 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:48:11 @ 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:48:15 @ 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:48:21 @ 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:49:4 @ 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:49:6 @ 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:49:9 @ 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:49:15 @ 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:49:28 @ 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:49:33 @ 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:50:2 @ And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;

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:50:7 @ 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:50:10 @ 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:50:13 @ 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:50:19 @ 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:50:24 @ 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@Exodus:1:1 @ These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

rsv@Exodus:1:9 @ And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.

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

rsv@Exodus:1:16 @ "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall 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:1:22 @ Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."

rsv@Exodus:2:1 @ Now a man from the house of Levi went and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

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:2:4 @ And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.

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:2:6 @ When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

rsv@Exodus:2:7 @ Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"

rsv@Exodus:2:8 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.

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:2:13 @ When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together; and he said to the man that did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

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:2:18 @ When they came to their father Reu'el, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?"

rsv@Exodus:2:20 @ He said to his daughters, "And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

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

rsv@Exodus:2:23 @ In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God.

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:3:2 @ And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

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:3:6 @ 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:3:10 @ Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."

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

rsv@Exodus: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: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:4:2 @ The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

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

rsv@Exodus:4:6 @ Again, the LORD said to him, "Put your hand into your bosom." And he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

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:4:10 @ 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:4:15 @ And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

rsv@Exodus:4:16 @ He shall speak for you to the people; and he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.

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:4:22 @ And you shall say to Pharaoh, `Thus says the LORD, Israel is my first-born son,

rsv@Exodus:4:23 @ and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.'"

rsv@Exodus:4:24 @ At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to kill him.

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:5:7 @ "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:5:9 @ Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words."

rsv@Exodus:5:10 @ So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, "Thus says Pharaoh, `I will not give you straw.

rsv@Exodus:5:12 @ So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

rsv@Exodus:5:14 @ And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, "Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?"

rsv@Exodus:5:15 @ Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, "Why do you deal thus with your servants?

rsv@Exodus:5:16 @ No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, `Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

rsv@Exodus:5:17 @ But he said, "You are idle, you are idle; therefore you say, `Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

rsv@Exodus:5:21 @ and they said to them, "The LORD look upon you and judge, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

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:5:23 @ For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has done evil to this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people at all."

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

rsv@Exodus:6:4 @ I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they dwelt as sojourners.

rsv@Exodus:6:6 @ Say therefore to the people of Israel, `I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment,

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:6:11 @ "Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land."

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:6:16 @ 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:6:19 @ 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:6:23 @ Aaron took to wife Eli'sheba, the daughter of Ammin'adab and the sister of Nahshon; and she bore him Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar.

rsv@Exodus:6:25 @ 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:7:2 @ You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.

rsv@Exodus:7:4 @ Pharaoh will not listen to you; then I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my hosts, my people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

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:7:13 @ Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

rsv@Exodus:7:14 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.

rsv@Exodus:7:15 @ Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; wait for him by the river's brink, and take in your hand the rod which was turned into a serpent.

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:7:17 @ Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood,

rsv@Exodus:7:18 @ and the fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile shall become foul, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile."'"

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:7:22 @ But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

rsv@Exodus:7:23 @ Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not lay even this to heart.

rsv@Exodus:7:24 @ And all the Egyptians dug round about the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

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:8:2 @ But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs;

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:8:12 @ 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:8:14 @ And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

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:8:18 @ The magicians tried by their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

rsv@Exodus:8:19 @ And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

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:8:23 @ Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. By tomorrow shall this sign be."'"

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: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:9:2 @ For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,

rsv@Exodus:9:4 @ But the LORD will make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all that belongs to the people of Israel."'"

rsv@Exodus:9:5 @ And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land."

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:9:10 @ 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:9:12 @ 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:9:16 @ but for this purpose have I let you live, to show you my power, so that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

rsv@Exodus:9:18 @ Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

rsv@Exodus:9:19 @ Now therefore send, get your cattle and all that you have in the field into safe shelter; for the hail shall come down upon every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home, and they shall die."'"

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:9:22 @ 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: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:10:4 @ For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

rsv@Exodus:10:5 @ and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land; and they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours which grows in the field,

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:10:7 @ And Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God; do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?"

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:10:12 @ 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:10:17 @ Now therefore, forgive my sin, I pray you, only this once, and entreat the LORD your God only to remove this death from me."

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:10:25 @ But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

rsv@Exodus:10:26 @ Our cattle also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there."

rsv@Exodus:10:28 @ Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take heed to yourself; never see my face again; for in the day you see my face you shall die."

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:11:5 @ and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the first-born of the cattle.

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: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:12:4 @ and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

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:12:14 @ "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.

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:12:22 @ Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

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:12:25 @ And when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.

rsv@Exodus:12:26 @ And when your children say to you, `What do you mean by this service?'

rsv@Exodus:12:29 @ At midnight the LORD smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.

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

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:12:37 @ And the people of Israel journeyed from Ram'eses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

rsv@Exodus:12:42 @ It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

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:12:48 @ 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:13:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:13:2 @ "Consecrate to me all the first-born; whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine."

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:13:4 @ This day you are to go forth, in the month of Abib.

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:13:6 @ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:13:7 @ Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.

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:13:10 @ You shall therefore keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.

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:13:17 @ 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:13:21 @ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night;

rsv@Exodus:14:1 @ Then the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:14:2 @ "Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-ha-hi'roth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Ba'al-ze'phon; you shall encamp over against it, by the sea.

rsv@Exodus:14:5 @ When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

rsv@Exodus:14:6 @ So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

rsv@Exodus:14:7 @ and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

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:14:14 @ The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still."

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:14:19 @ Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

rsv@Exodus:14:22 @ And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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:14:28 @ The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained.

rsv@Exodus:14:29 @ But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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:15:4 @ "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea.

rsv@Exodus:15:5 @ The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone.

rsv@Exodus:15:8 @ At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

rsv@Exodus:15:13 @ "Thou hast led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode.

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:15:19 @ 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:15:21 @ And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

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

rsv@Exodus:15:25 @ And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them,

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:16:3 @ 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:16:15 @ 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:16:16 @ This is what the LORD has commanded: `Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of the persons whom each of you has in his tent.'"

rsv@Exodus:16:18 @ But when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.

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:16:25 @ Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

rsv@Exodus:16:27 @ On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

rsv@Exodus:16:28 @ And the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

rsv@Exodus:16:33 @ 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:16:35 @ And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

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

rsv@Exodus: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:17:12 @ 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:17:16 @ saying, "A hand upon the banner of the LORD! The LORD will have war with Am'alek from generation to generation."

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:18:9 @ And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

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:18:15 @ 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:18:22 @ 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:18:23 @ If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace."

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:18:26 @ 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:19:6 @ 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:19:8 @ 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:19:13 @ no hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain."

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:19:15 @ And he said to the people, "Be ready by the third day; do not go near a woman."

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:19:20 @ 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:20:5 @ you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

rsv@Exodus:20:6 @ but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

rsv@Exodus:20:8 @ "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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:20:18 @ Now when all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled; and they stood afar off,

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:21:6 @ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

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:21:10 @ If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

rsv@Exodus:21:12 @ "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

rsv@Exodus:21:13 @ But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

rsv@Exodus:21:14 @ But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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:21:21 @ 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:21:24 @ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

rsv@Exodus:21:27 @ If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth'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:21:29 @ But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

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:21:34 @ the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

rsv@Exodus:21:36 @ Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.

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:22:4 @ "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

rsv@Exodus:22:5 @ If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God, to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

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:22:14 @ 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:22:20 @ If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry;

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:22:27 @ You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it 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:23:3 @ nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit.

rsv@Exodus:23:4 @ "If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall bring it back to him.

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:23:6 @ "You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his suit.

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:23:19 @ "The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

rsv@Exodus:23:20 @ "Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared.

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:23:27 @ 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:23:31 @ 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:24:5 @ And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.

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:24:7 @ Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient."

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:24:10 @ 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:24:14 @ And he said to the elders, "Tarry here for us, until we come to you again; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a cause, let him go to them."

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:24:17 @ Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

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:25:7 @ onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

rsv@Exodus:25:9 @ According to all that I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.

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:25:16 @ 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:25:26 @ And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

rsv@Exodus:25:27 @ Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

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:25:37 @ And you shall make the seven lamps for it; and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light upon the space in front of it.

rsv@Exodus:26:3 @ Five curtains shall be coupled to one another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

rsv@Exodus:26:6 @ And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole.

rsv@Exodus:26:11 @ "And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be one whole.

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:26:17 @ There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together; so shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.

rsv@Exodus:26:24 @ they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.

rsv@Exodus:26:28 @ The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall pass through from end to end.

rsv@Exodus:26:30 @ And you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it which has been shown you on the mountain.

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:27:13 @ The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits.

rsv@Exodus:27:20 @ "And you shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may be set up to burn continually.

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:28:8 @ And the skilfully woven band upon it, to gird it on, shall be of the same workmanship and materials, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet stuff, and fine twined linen.

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:28:14 @ and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

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:28:25 @ 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:28:26 @ And you shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to 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:28:28 @ And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may lie upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece shall not come loose from 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:28:32 @ It shall have in it an opening for the head, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, that it may not be torn.

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:28:36 @ "And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, `Holy to the LORD.'

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:29:4 @ You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water.

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:29:18 @ and burn the whole ram upon the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD; it is a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.

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:29:25 @ Then you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar in addition to the burnt offering, as a pleasing odor before the LORD; it is an offering by fire to the LORD.

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:29:29 @ "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and ordained in them.

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:29:33 @ They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain and consecrate them, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.

rsv@Exodus:29:35 @ "Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; through seven days shall you ordain them,

rsv@Exodus:29:36 @ and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall offer a sin offering for the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it, to consecrate it.

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:29:41 @ And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall offer with it a cereal offering and its libation, as in the morning, for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Exodus:29:42 @ It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

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:30:1 @ "You shall make an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood shall you make it.

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:30:10 @ Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations; it is most holy to the LORD."

rsv@Exodus:30:11 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:30:12 @ "When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.

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

rsv@Exodus: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:30:24 @ and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin;

rsv@Exodus:30:29 @ you shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy; whatever touches them will become holy.

rsv@Exodus:30:31 @ And you shall say to the people of Israel, `This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

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:30:37 @ 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:31:6 @ And behold, I have appointed with him Oho'liab, the son of Ahis'amach, of the tribe of Dan; and I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

rsv@Exodus:31:11 @ and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do."

rsv@Exodus:31:12 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:31:13 @ "Say to the people of Israel, `You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.

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:31:18 @ 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:32:3 @ So all the people took off the rings of gold which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

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:32:5 @ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD."

rsv@Exodus:32:6 @ And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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:32:12 @ Why should the Egyptians say, `With evil intent did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

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:32:14 @ And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.

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:32:18 @ But he said, "It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear."

rsv@Exodus:32:20 @ And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink it.

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:32:24 @ And I said to them, `Let any who have gold take it off'; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf."

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:32:27 @ And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, `Put every man his sword on his side, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

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:33:3 @ 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:33:5 @ 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:33:7 @ 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:33:11 @ 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:33:13 @ Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee and find favor in thy sight. Consider too that this nation is thy people."

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:33:19 @ 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: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:34:12 @ 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:34:24 @ 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:34:26 @ The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

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:34:30 @ 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:34:34 @ 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:35:5 @ Take from among you an offering to the LORD; whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD's offering: gold, silver, and bronze;

rsv@Exodus:35:9 @ and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

rsv@Exodus:35:21 @ And they came, every one whose heart stirred him, and every one whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD's offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

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:35:29 @ 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:35:34 @ And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oho'liab the son of Ahis'amach of the tribe of Daniel.

rsv@Exodus: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:36:1 @ Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man in whom the LORD has put ability and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded."

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:36:5 @ 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:36:7 @ for the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.

rsv@Exodus:36:10 @ And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

rsv@Exodus:36:13 @ And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps; so the tabernacle was one whole.

rsv@Exodus:36:18 @ And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be one whole.

rsv@Exodus:36:22 @ Each frame had two tenons, for fitting together; he did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.

rsv@Exodus:36:29 @ And they were separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring; he made two of them thus, for the two corners.

rsv@Exodus:36:33 @ And he made the middle bar to pass through from end to end halfway up the frames.

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:37:13 @ He cast for it four rings of gold, and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

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:37:26 @ 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: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:38:13 @ And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.

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: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:39:18 @ 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:39:19 @ Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to 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:39:23 @ and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, that it might not be torn.

rsv@Exodus:39:30 @ And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, "Holy to the LORD."

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:39:41 @ 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:40:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Exodus:40:12 @ Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water,

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:40:20 @ 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:40:32 @ when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.

rsv@Exodus:40:35 @ 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:1:2 @ "Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, When any man of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of cattle from the herd or from the flock.

rsv@Leviticus:1:4 @ he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

rsv@Leviticus:1:6 @ And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces;

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:1:12 @ 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:1:17 @ 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:2:1 @ "When any one brings a cereal offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense on it,

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:2:3 @ And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings by fire to the LORD.

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:2:10 @ And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:2:11 @ "No cereal offering which you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven; for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:2:12 @ As an offering of first fruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing odor.

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:3:3 @ And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as an offering by fire to the LORD, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

rsv@Leviticus:3:5 @ Then Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is upon the wood on the fire; it is an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:3:6 @ "If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

rsv@Leviticus:3:9 @ Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering as an offering by fire to the LORD he shall offer its fat, the fat tail entire, taking it away close by the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,

rsv@Leviticus:3:11 @ And the priest shall burn it on the altar as food offered by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:3:14 @ Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for an offering by fire to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,

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:4:4 @ He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD, and lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the LORD.

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:4:12 @ 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:4:16 @ Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull to 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:4:22 @ "When a ruler sins, doing unwittingly any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

rsv@Leviticus:4:23 @ if the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,

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:4:27 @ "If any one of the common people sins unwittingly in doing any one of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

rsv@Leviticus:4:28 @ when the sin which he has committed is made known to him he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

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:4:35 @ 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:5:6 @ 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:5:10 @ 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:5:12 @ 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:5:15 @ "If any one commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you in shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; it is a guilt offering.

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:6:4 @ 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:6:15 @ And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the cereal offering with its oil and all the frankincense which is on the cereal offering, and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

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

rsv@Leviticus: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:6:24 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:6:25 @ "Say to Aaron and his sons, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy.

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:6:30 @ But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it shall be burned with fire.

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:7:7 @ 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:7:9 @ 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:7:11 @ "And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which one may offer to the LORD.

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:7:18 @ 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:7:21 @ 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:7:23 @ "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

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:7:25 @ For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which an offering by fire is made to the LORD shall be cut off from his people.

rsv@Leviticus:7:28 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:7:29 @ "Say to the people of Israel, He that offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD; from the sacrifice of his peace offerings

rsv@Leviticus:7:30 @ he shall bring with his own hands the offerings by fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.

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:7:36 @ the LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, on the day that they were anointed; it is a perpetual due throughout their generations."

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:8:5 @ And Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which the LORD has commanded to be done."

rsv@Leviticus:8:7 @ And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod, binding it to him therewith.

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:8:12 @ And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to consecrate him.

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:8:20 @ 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:8:23 @ 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:8:25 @ Then he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh;

rsv@Leviticus:8:26 @ and out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the LORD he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh;

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:8:33 @ And you shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.

rsv@Leviticus:8:34 @ As has been done today, the LORD has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.

rsv@Leviticus:9:2 @ and he said to Aaron, "Take a bull calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:9:3 @ And say to the people of Israel, `Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,

rsv@Leviticus:9:4 @ and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a cereal offering mixed with oil; for today the LORD will appear to you.'"

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:9:8 @ So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

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:9:12 @ And he killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, and he threw it on the altar round about.

rsv@Leviticus:9:13 @ And they delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head; and he burned them upon the altar.

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:9:18 @ He killed the ox also and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he threw upon the altar round about,

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:10:1 @ Now Nadab and Abi'hu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered unholy fire before the LORD, such as he had not commanded them.

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:10:6 @ 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:10:8 @ And the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying,

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:10:10 @ You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

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:10:13 @ you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due, from the offerings by fire to the LORD; for so I am commanded.

rsv@Leviticus:10:15 @ The thigh that is offered and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the offerings by fire of the fat, to wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a due for ever; as the LORD has commanded."

rsv@Leviticus:10:17 @ "Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

rsv@Leviticus:10:18 @ Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."

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: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:11:10 @ 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:11:14 @ the kite, the falcon according to its kind,

rsv@Leviticus:11:15 @ every raven according to its kind,

rsv@Leviticus:11:16 @ the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk according to its kind,

rsv@Leviticus:11:19 @ the stork, the heron according to its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

rsv@Leviticus:11:20 @ "All winged insects that go upon all fours are an abomination to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:21 @ Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those which have legs above their feet, with which to leap on the earth.

rsv@Leviticus:11:22 @ Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.

rsv@Leviticus:11:23 @ But all other winged insects which have four feet are an abomination to you.

rsv@Leviticus:11:24 @ "And by these you shall become unclean; whoever touches their carcass shall 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:11:35 @ 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:11:37 @ And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed for sowing that is to be sown, it is clean;

rsv@Leviticus:11:38 @ but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

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:11:45 @ For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."

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:11:47 @ to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

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:12:4 @ Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying; she shall not touch any hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.

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:12:7 @ and he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.

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:13:7 @ 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:13:9 @ "When a man is afflicted with leprosy, he shall be brought to the priest;

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:13:16 @ But if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest,

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:13:32 @ 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:13:34 @ 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:13:45 @ "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:13:59 @ This is the law for a leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in warp or woof, or in anything of skin, to decide whether it is clean or unclean.

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:14:4 @ 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:14:11 @ 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:14:13 @ 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:14:17 @ 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:14:21 @ "But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, and a log of oil;

rsv@Leviticus: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:14:25 @ 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:14:28 @ 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:14:31 @ 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:14:37 @ And he shall examine the disease; and if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,

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:14:40 @ 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:14:41 @ and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour 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:14:45 @ 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:14:53 @ and he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean."

rsv@Leviticus:14:57 @ to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprosy.

rsv@Leviticus:15:1 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Leviticus:15:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

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:15:5 @ And any one who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

rsv@Leviticus:15:7 @ 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:15:10 @ 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:15:14 @ 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:15:19 @ "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:15:21 @ 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:15:26 @ 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: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:16:3 @ But thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

rsv@Leviticus:16:6 @ "And Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.

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:16:16 @ 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:16:18 @ Then he shall go out to the altar which is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar round about.

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:16:23 @ "Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there;

rsv@Leviticus:16:24 @ and he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

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:16:30 @ for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the LORD.

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:17:2 @ "Say to Aaron and his sons, and to all the people of Israel, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

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:17:8 @ "And you shall say to them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

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:17:12 @ Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.

rsv@Leviticus:17:14 @ "For the life of every creature is the blood of it; therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.

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:18:1 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:18:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, I am the LORD your God.

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:18:6 @ "None of you shall approach any one near of kin to him to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.

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:18:21 @ You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:18:23 @ And you shall not lie with any beast and defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to lie with it: it is perversion.

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:19:2 @ "Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.

rsv@Leviticus:19:4 @ Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:19:5 @ "When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

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:19:11 @ "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

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:19:20 @ "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:19:21 @ but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the LORD, to the door of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.

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:19:24 @ And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.

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:19:31 @ "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Leviticus:19:34 @ The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

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:20:3 @ I myself will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

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:20:6 @ "If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

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:20:15 @ 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:20:19 @ 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:20:22 @ "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:21:3 @ or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself).

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:21:6 @ They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings by fire to the LORD, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

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:21:8 @ You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

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:21:11 @ he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;

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:21:18 @ For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,

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:21:24 @ 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:22:2 @ "Tell Aaron and his sons to keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.

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:22:12 @ 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:22:16 @ and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctify them."

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:22:19 @ to be accepted you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.

rsv@Leviticus:22:21 @ And when any one offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.

rsv@Leviticus:22:22 @ Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs, you shall not offer to the LORD or make of them an offering by fire upon the altar to the LORD.

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:22:27 @ "When a bull or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:22:29 @ And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

rsv@Leviticus:22:33 @ who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD."

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:23:6 @ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

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:23:12 @ And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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

rsv@Leviticus:23:16 @ 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:23:28 @ And you shall do no work on this same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.

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:23:34 @ "Say to the people of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of booths to the LORD.

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:23:41 @ You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.

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:24:7 @ And you shall put pure frankincense with each row, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion to be offered by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Leviticus:24:9 @ And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the offerings by fire to the LORD, a perpetual due."

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:24:12 @ And they put him in custody, till the will of the LORD should be declared to them.

rsv@Leviticus:24:13 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Leviticus:24:14 @ "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

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:24:17 @ He who kills a man 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:24:20 @ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured.

rsv@Leviticus:24:21 @ He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

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:25:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.

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:25:8 @ "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:25:9 @ Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.

rsv@Leviticus:25:10 @ And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.

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:25:12 @ For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.

rsv@Leviticus:25:13 @ "In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

rsv@Leviticus:25:14 @ And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

rsv@Leviticus:25:15 @ According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you.

rsv@Leviticus:25:16 @ If the years are many you shall increase the price, and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.

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:25:27 @ let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

rsv@Leviticus:25:28 @ But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

rsv@Leviticus:25:30 @ If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

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:25:38 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

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:25:46 @ 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:25:49 @ or his uncle, or his cousin may redeem him, or a near kinsman belonging to his family may redeem him; or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.

rsv@Leviticus:25:50 @ He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.

rsv@Leviticus:25:51 @ If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.

rsv@Leviticus:25:52 @ If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.

rsv@Leviticus:25:55 @ For to me the people of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

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:26:5 @ 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:26:10 @ And you shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

rsv@Leviticus:26:14 @ "But if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments,

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:26:18 @ And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,

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:26:23 @ "And if by this discipline you are not turned to me, but walk contrary to me,

rsv@Leviticus:26:24 @ then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins.

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:26:27 @ "And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me,

rsv@Leviticus:26:28 @ then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins.

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:26:36 @ 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:26:40 @ "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:26:44 @ 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: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:27:3 @ then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

rsv@Leviticus:27:5 @ If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

rsv@Leviticus:27:6 @ If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

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:27:11 @ 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:27:13 @ 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:27:18 @ 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:27:25 @ Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.

rsv@Leviticus:27:26 @ "But a firstling of animals, which as a firstling belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.

rsv@Leviticus:27:27 @ And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at your valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation.

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:27:32 @ And all the tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the LORD.

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:1:3 @ from twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war, you and Aaron shall number them, company by company.

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:1:20 @ 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:1:45 @ 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:1:48 @ 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:1:54 @ 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:2:3 @ 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:2:5 @ Those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Is'sachar, the leader of the people of Is'sachar being Nethan'el the son of Zu'ar,

rsv@Numbers:2:12 @ And those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the leader of the people of Simeon being Shelu'mi-el the son of Zurishad'dai,

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

rsv@Numbers:2:27 @ And those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the leader of the people of Asher being Pa'giel the son of Ochran,

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:3:3 @ these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister in the priest's office.

rsv@Numbers:3:5 @ 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:3:8 @ 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:3:14 @ And the LORD said to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,

rsv@Numbers:3:16 @ So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

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:3:25 @ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,

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:3:28 @ 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:3:31 @ 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:3:34 @ 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:3:38 @ 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:3:40 @ 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:3:43 @ 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:3:48 @ 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:3:50 @ from the first-born of the people of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, reckoned by the shekel of the sanctuary;

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:4:3 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can enter the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

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:4:15 @ 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:4:17 @ The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:4:19 @ but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,

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:4:23 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who can enter for service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

rsv@Numbers:4:25 @ they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting with its covering, and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,

rsv@Numbers:4:26 @ and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords, and all the equipment for their service; and they shall do all that needs to be done with regard to them.

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:4:30 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall number them, every one that can enter the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting.

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:4:35 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter the service, for work in the tent of meeting;

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:4:39 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter the service for work in the tent of meeting--

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:4:43 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter the service, for work in the tent of meeting--

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:4:47 @ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, every one that could enter to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,

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:5:6 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that men commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is guilty,

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:5:15 @ 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:5:17 @ 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:5:19 @ 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:5:22 @ may this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your body swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman shall say, `Amen, Amen.'

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:5:27 @ And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully against her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become an execration among her people.

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:6:5 @ "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:6:7 @ Neither for his father nor for his mother, nor for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean; because his separation to God is upon his head.

rsv@Numbers:6:8 @ All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

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:6:12 @ and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former time shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

rsv@Numbers:6:13 @ "And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting,

rsv@Numbers:6:14 @ and he shall offer his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace 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:6:20 @ 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:6:25 @ The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:

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:7:7 @ Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service;

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:7:9 @ But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the care of the holy things which had to be carried on the shoulder.

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:7:13 @ and his offering was one silver plate whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:19 @ he offered for his offering one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:25 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:31 @ his offering was one silver plate whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:37 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:43 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:49 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:55 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:61 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:67 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:73 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

rsv@Numbers:7:79 @ his offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;

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:8:2 @ "Say to Aaron, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand."

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:8:7 @ 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:8:11 @ 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:8:15 @ 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:8:16 @ For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel; instead of all that open the womb, the first-born of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself.

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:9:7 @ and those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching the dead body of a man; why are we kept from offering the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?"

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:9:12 @ They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it.

rsv@Numbers:9:14 @ And if a stranger sojourns among you, and will keep the passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do; you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."

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: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:10:6 @ And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.

rsv@Numbers:10:7 @ But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

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:10:28 @ This was the order of march of the people of Israel according to their hosts, when they set out.

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:10:30 @ But he said to him, "I will not go; I will depart to my own land and to my kindred."

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:10:32 @ And if you go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you."

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:10:36 @ And when it rested, he said, "Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel."

rsv@Numbers:11:2 @ Then the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

rsv@Numbers:11:4 @ Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving; and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, "O that we had meat to eat!

rsv@Numbers:11:6 @ but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."

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:11:13 @ Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, `Give us meat, that we may eat.'

rsv@Numbers:11:14 @ I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me.

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:11:22 @ Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?"

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:11:29 @ 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:11:35 @ From Kib'roth-hatta'avah the people journeyed to Haze'roth; and they remained at Haze'roth.

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:12:5 @ And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.

rsv@Numbers:12:6 @ And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.

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:12:10 @ and when the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned towards Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

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:12:13 @ 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:13:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:13:2 @ "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them."

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:13:16 @ 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:13:21 @ 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:13:26 @ 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:13:27 @ And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

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:13:31 @ Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we."

rsv@Numbers:13:32 @ So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.

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:14:4 @ And they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt."

rsv@Numbers:14:7 @ and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

rsv@Numbers:14:8 @ If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

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:14:13 @ 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:14:20 @ Then the LORD said, "I have pardoned, according to your word;

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:14:28 @ Say to them, `As I live,' says the LORD, `what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

rsv@Numbers:14:30 @ not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephun'neh and Joshua the son of Nun.

rsv@Numbers:14:34 @ According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

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:14:38 @ But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephun'neh remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land.

rsv@Numbers:14:39 @ And Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

rsv@Numbers:14:40 @ And they rose early in the morning, and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "See, we are here, we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised; for we have sinned."

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:15:2 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I give you,

rsv@Numbers:15:3 @ and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock an offering by fire or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing odor to the LORD,

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

rsv@Numbers:15:7 @ and for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:15:8 @ And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow, or for peace offerings to the LORD,

rsv@Numbers:15:10 @ and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:15:12 @ According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number.

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:15:18 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land to which I bring you

rsv@Numbers:15:19 @ and when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:15:21 @ Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the LORD an offering throughout your generations.

rsv@Numbers:15:22 @ "But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:15:24 @ then if it was done unwittingly without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

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:15:33 @ And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

rsv@Numbers:15:34 @ They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him.

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:15:38 @ "Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue;

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:15:40 @ So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

rsv@Numbers:15:41 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

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

rsv@Numbers:16:7 @ 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:16:9 @ is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

rsv@Numbers:16:11 @ Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together; what is Aaron that you murmur against him?"

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

rsv@Numbers:16:20 @ And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:16:23 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

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

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:16:30 @ 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:16:32 @ and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods.

rsv@Numbers:16:33 @ So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

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:16:42 @ 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:16:46 @ 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:16:48 @ And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped.

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:17:5 @ And the rod of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against 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:17:8 @ 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:17:12 @ 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:18:4 @ They shall join you, and attend to the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no one else shall come near you.

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:18:8 @ Then the LORD said to Aaron, "And behold, I have given you whatever is kept of the offerings made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion, and to your sons as a perpetual due.

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:18:10 @ In a most holy place shall you eat of it; every male may eat of it; it is holy to you.

rsv@Numbers:18:11 @ This also is yours, the offering of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it.

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:18:13 @ The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it.

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

rsv@Numbers:18:17 @ But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD;

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:18:20 @ And the LORD said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.

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:18:24 @ 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:19:1 @ Now the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,

rsv@Numbers:19:2 @ "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come.

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:19:6 @ 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:19:10 @ 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:19:13 @ 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:19:16 @ 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:19:18 @ then a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the furnishings, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave;

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:20:4 @ 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:20:12 @ 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:20:14 @ 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:20:15 @ how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers;

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:20:17 @ Now let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, neither will we drink water from a well; we will go along the King's Highway, we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed through your 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:20:19 @ And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."

rsv@Numbers:20:21 @ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.

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

rsv@Numbers:20:25 @ Take Aaron and Elea'zar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;

rsv@Numbers:20:26 @ and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Elea'zar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there."

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:21:1 @ When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

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:21:4 @ From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way.

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:21:11 @ 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:21:15 @ and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab."

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:21:17 @ Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well!--Sing to it!--

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

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

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

rsv@Numbers:21:21 @ Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

rsv@Numbers:21:22 @ "Let me pass through your land; we will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well; we will go by the King's Highway, until we have passed through your territory."

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:21:27 @ Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built, let the city of Sihon be established.

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:21:32 @ And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.

rsv@Numbers:21:33 @ Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Ed're-i.

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:22:4 @ And Moab said to the elders of Mid'ian, "This horde will now lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,

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:22:10 @ And Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,

rsv@Numbers:22:11 @ `Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.'"

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:22:16 @ And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: `Let nothing hinder you from coming to me;

rsv@Numbers:22:17 @ for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.'"

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:22:19 @ Pray, now, tarry here this night also, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me."

rsv@Numbers:22:20 @ And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do."

rsv@Numbers:22:22 @ But God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the ass, and his two servants were with him.

rsv@Numbers:22:23 @ And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the road, and went into the field; and Balaam struck the ass, to turn her into the road.

rsv@Numbers:22:24 @ Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.

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

rsv@Numbers: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:22:29 @ And Balaam said to the ass, "Because you have made sport of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you."

rsv@Numbers:22:30 @ And the ass said to Balaam, "Am I not your ass, upon which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you?" And he said, "No."

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:22:34 @ Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that thou didst stand in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in thy sight, I will go back again."

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:22:36 @ When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the boundary formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the boundary.

rsv@Numbers:22:37 @ And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

rsv@Numbers:22:38 @ Balaam said to Balak, "Lo, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak."

rsv@Numbers:22:39 @ Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kir'iath-hu'zoth.

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:23:1 @ And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

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:23:4 @ And God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered upon each altar a bull and a ram."

rsv@Numbers:23:5 @ And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

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:23:7 @ And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: `Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'

rsv@Numbers:23:9 @ For from the top of the mountains I see him, from the hills I behold him; lo, a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations!

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:23:12 @ And he answered, "Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?"

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

rsv@Numbers:23:15 @ Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder."

rsv@Numbers:23:16 @ And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak."

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:23:18 @ And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; hearken to me, O son of Zippor:

rsv@Numbers:23:20 @ Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

rsv@Numbers:23:25 @ And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."

rsv@Numbers:23:27 @ And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there."

rsv@Numbers:23:28 @ So Balak took Balaam to the top of Pe'or, that overlooks the desert.

rsv@Numbers:23:29 @ And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

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:24:3 @ and he took up his discourse, and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Be'or, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

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:24:11 @ Therefore now flee to your place; I said, `I will certainly honor you,' but the LORD has held you back from honor."

rsv@Numbers:24:12 @ And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

rsv@Numbers:24:13 @ `If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the LORD speaks, that will I speak'?

rsv@Numbers:24:14 @ And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days."

rsv@Numbers:24:15 @ And he took up his discourse, and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Be'or, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

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:24:23 @ 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:24:25 @ Then Balaam rose, and went back to his place; and Balak also went his way.

rsv@Numbers:25:1 @ While Israel dwelt in Shittim the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.

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:25:3 @ So Israel yoked himself to Ba'al of Pe'or. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel;

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:25:8 @ and went after the man of Israel into the inner room, and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her body. Thus the plague was stayed from the people of Israel.

rsv@Numbers:25:10 @ And the LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:25:12 @ Therefore say, `Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace;

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

rsv@Numbers:26:12 @ 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:26:15 @ 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:26:18 @ 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:26:22 @ 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:26:25 @ 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:26:35 @ 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:26:37 @ 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:26:41 @ 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:26:47 @ 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:26:50 @ 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:26:54 @ To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance according to its numbers.

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:26:56 @ Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller."

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:26:59 @ 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:26:60 @ And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abi'hu, Elea'zar and Ith'amar.

rsv@Numbers:26:62 @ And those numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.

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:27:6 @ 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:27:9 @ And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

rsv@Numbers:27:10 @ And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

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:27:13 @ And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was gathered,

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:27:18 @ 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:27:22 @ 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:28:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:28:2 @ "Command the people of Israel, and say to them, `My offering, my food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take heed to offer to me in its due season.'

rsv@Numbers:28:3 @ And you shall say to them, This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a continual offering.

rsv@Numbers:28:6 @ It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:28:7 @ Its drink offering shall be a fourth of a hin for each lamb; in the holy place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:28:8 @ The other lamb you shall offer in the evening; like the cereal offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD.

rsv@Numbers:28:11 @ "At the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

rsv@Numbers:28:13 @ and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD.

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:28:19 @ but offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish;

rsv@Numbers:28:22 @ also one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

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:28:26 @ "On the day of the first fruits, when you offer a cereal offering of new grain to the LORD at your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work,

rsv@Numbers:28:27 @ but offer a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD; two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;

rsv@Numbers:28:30 @ with one male goat, to make atonement for you.

rsv@Numbers:29:1 @ "On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,

rsv@Numbers:29:2 @ and you shall offer a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

rsv@Numbers:29:5 @ with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

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:29:8 @ but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing odor: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;

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:29:12 @ "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days;

rsv@Numbers:29:13 @ and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD, thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;

rsv@Numbers:29:18 @ with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

rsv@Numbers:29:21 @ with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

rsv@Numbers:29:24 @ with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

rsv@Numbers:29:27 @ with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

rsv@Numbers:29:30 @ with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

rsv@Numbers:29:33 @ with the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

rsv@Numbers:29:36 @ but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,

rsv@Numbers:29:37 @ and the cereal offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by number, according to the ordinance;

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:30:2 @ When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

rsv@Numbers:30:3 @ Or when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house, in her youth,

rsv@Numbers:30:4 @ and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself, and says nothing to her; then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.

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:30:11 @ and her husband heard of it, and said nothing to her, and did not oppose her; then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.

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: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:31:9 @ 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:31:11 @ and took all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and of beast.

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:31:15 @ 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:31:19 @ 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:31:24 @ 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:31:27 @ and divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all 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:31:32 @ Now the booty remaining of the spoil that the men of war took was: six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

rsv@Numbers:31:36 @ And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

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:31:47 @ 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:31:52 @ And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

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:32:5 @ 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:32:7 @ Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

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

rsv@Numbers:32:14 @ And behold, you have risen in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!

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:32:19 @ For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east."

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:32:22 @ 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:32:25 @ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

rsv@Numbers:32:27 @ but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders."

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:32:31 @ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, "As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.

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:32:38 @ 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:33:2 @ 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:33:7 @ And they set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahi'roth, which is east of Ba'al-ze'phon; and they encamped before Migdol.

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

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

rsv@Numbers:33:14 @ And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Reph'idim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

rsv@Numbers:33:44 @ And they set out from Oboth, and encamped at I'ye-ab'arim, in the territory of Moab.

rsv@Numbers:33:50 @ And the LORD said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,

rsv@Numbers:33:51 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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:33:56 @ And I will do to you as I thought to do to them."

rsv@Numbers:34:1 @ The LORD said to Moses,

rsv@Numbers:34:2 @ "Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan in its full extent),

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:34:5 @ and the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

rsv@Numbers:34:7 @ "This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor;

rsv@Numbers:34:8 @ from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to the entrance of Hamath, and the end of the boundary shall be at Zeded;

rsv@Numbers:34:9 @ then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron, and its end shall be at Ha'zar-e'nan; this shall be your northern boundary.

rsv@Numbers:34:10 @ "You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Ha'zar-e'nan to Shepham;

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

rsv@Numbers:34:12 @ 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:34:15 @ 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:34:18 @ You shall take one leader of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

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:35:10 @ "Say to the people of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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:35:14 @ You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.

rsv@Numbers:35:16 @ "But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

rsv@Numbers:35:17 @ And if he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

rsv@Numbers:35:18 @ Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

rsv@Numbers:35:19 @ The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

rsv@Numbers:35:21 @ or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

rsv@Numbers:35:23 @ or used a stone, by which a man may die, and without seeing him cast it upon him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm;

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:35:26 @ But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled,

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:35:31 @ Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death.

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:36:2 @ they said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zeloph'ehad our brother to his daughters.

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:36:7 @ The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another; for every one of the people of Israel shall cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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

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:1:5 @ Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:6 @ "The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, `You have stayed long enough at this mountain;

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:1:9 @ "At that time I said to you, `I am not able alone to bear 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:1:14 @ And you answered me, `The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.'

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:1:17 @ You shall not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'

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:1:23 @ The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe;

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:1:29 @ Then I said to you, `Do not be in dread or afraid of them.

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:1:33 @ who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

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:1:36 @ except Caleb the son of Jephun'neh; he shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land upon which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!'

rsv@Deuteronomy:1:38 @ Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter; encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

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:1:41 @ "Then you answered me, `We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.

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:1:45 @ And you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD did not hearken to your voice or give ear to you.

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:2:2 @ Then the LORD said to me,

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:2:9 @ 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:2:12 @ 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:2:17 @ the LORD said to me,

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:18 @ `This day you are to pass over the boundary of Moab at Ar;

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:2:22 @ 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:2:27 @ `Let me pass through your land; I will go only by the road, I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.

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

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:33 @ And the LORD our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:35 @ only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured.

rsv@Deuteronomy:2:36 @ From Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; the LORD our God gave all into our hands.

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:3:1 @ "Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Ed're-i.

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:3:3 @ So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him.

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:3:6 @ 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:3:11 @ (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:3:15 @ To Machir I gave Gilead,

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:3:18 @ "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:3:20 @ 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:3:24 @ `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:3:26 @ But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not hearken to me; and the LORD said to me, `Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.

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

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:1 @ "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:4:2 @ You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:4:4 @ but you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive this day.

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:4:7 @ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

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:4:10 @ how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, `Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'

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:4:12 @ Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.

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:4:19 @ 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:4:23 @ 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:4:25 @ "When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

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:4:28 @ And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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:4:32 @ "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.

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:4:38 @ 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:4:39 @ know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

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:4:45 @ 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:4:47 @ 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:5:4 @ The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:5 @ while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:9 @ you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:10 @ but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:12 @ "`Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

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:5:15 @ You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

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:5:27 @ Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God will say; and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:28 @ "And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, `I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have rightly said all that they have spoken.

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:29 @ Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children for ever!

rsv@Deuteronomy:5:30 @ Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."

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:5:32 @ You shall be careful to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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:6:3 @ Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

rsv@Deuteronomy:6:7 @ and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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

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

rsv@Deuteronomy: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:6:20 @ "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:6:23 @ and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers.

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:7:6 @ "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:7:8 @ 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:7:9 @ Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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:7:16 @ 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:7:18 @ you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

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:7:22 @ 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:8:7 @ For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills,

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:8:16 @ 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:8:18 @ 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:9:4 @ "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:9:13 @ "Furthermore the LORD said to me, `I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people;

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:9:18 @ Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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

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:9:28 @ 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:10:3 @ 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:10:6 @ (The people of Israel journeyed from Be-er'oth Bene-ja'akan to Mose'rah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and his son Elea'zar ministered as priest in his stead.

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

rsv@Deuteronomy: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:10:9 @ Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.)

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:10:14 @ Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it;

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:20 @ You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him and cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear.

rsv@Deuteronomy:10:22 @ Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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:11:3 @ his signs and his deeds which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;

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:11:6 @ and what he did to Dathan and Abi'ram the sons of Eli'ab, son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel;

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:11:13 @ "And if you will obey my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:19 @ And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:21 @ that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:22 @ For if you will be careful to do all this commandment which I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and cleaving to him,

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:11:25 @ No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:11:28 @ and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known.

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:12:4 @ You shall not do so to the LORD your God.

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:12:8 @ 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:12:12 @ And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with 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:12:18 @ but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake.

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:12:26 @ But the holy things which are due from you, and your votive offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place which the LORD will choose,

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:12:32 @ "Everything that I command you you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to it or take from it.

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:13:4 @ You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:5 @ But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

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:13:8 @ you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him;

rsv@Deuteronomy:13:9 @ but you shall kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

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:13:12 @ "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:13:16 @ You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; it shall be a heap for ever, it shall not be built again.

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:14:2 @ 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:14:8 @ 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:14:18 @ the stork, the heron, after their kinds; the hoopoe and the bat.

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:14:23 @ And before the LORD your God, in the place which he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

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:14:27 @ And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:14:28 @ "At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and lay it up within your towns;

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:15:2 @ And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed.

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:15:5 @ if only you will obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

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:15:8 @ but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

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:15:11 @ For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:12 @ "If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

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:15:15 @ You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.

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:15:17 @ then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your bondman for ever. And to your bondwoman you shall do likewise.

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:15:21 @ But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind, or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:15:22 @ You shall eat it within your towns; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a hart.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:1 @ "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:2 @ And you shall offer the passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place which the LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there.

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:16:6 @ but at the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the passover sacrifice, in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:7 @ And you shall boil it and eat it at the place which the LORD your God will choose; and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:8 @ For six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work on it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:9 @ "You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

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:16:14 @ 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:16:17 @ 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:17:1 @ "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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:17:4 @ and it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done in Israel,

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:17:10 @ Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the LORD will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you;

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:11 @ according to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict which they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.

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:17:14 @ "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:17:19 @ 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:17:20 @ that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

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:18:12 @ 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:18:14 @ 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:18:17 @ And the LORD said to me, `They have rightly said all that they have spoken.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:18 @ I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:19 @ And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.

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:19:2 @ 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:19:8 @ 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:19:11 @ "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:19:12 @ then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

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:19:16 @ 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:19:19 @ then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:19:21 @ Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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:20:9 @ And when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:10 @ "When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:11 @ And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.

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:20:15 @ Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

rsv@Deuteronomy:20:18 @ 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: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:21:4 @ And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

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:21:10 @ "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:21:12 @ then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails.

rsv@Deuteronomy:21:13 @ And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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:21:18 @ "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they chastise him, will not give heed to them,

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:21:20 @ and they shall say to the elders of his city, `This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'

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:21:22 @ "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:1 @ "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother.

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:22:4 @ You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again.

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:22:7 @ you shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

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:22:10 @ You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:11 @ You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

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:22:15 @ then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:16 @ and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, `I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;

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:22:19 @ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

rsv@Deuteronomy:22:20 @ But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,

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:22:24 @ 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:22:26 @ But to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor;

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:22:29 @ then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.

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:23:3 @ "No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the LORD for ever;

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:23:8 @ The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

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:23:12 @ "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it;

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:23:21 @ "When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:23:23 @ You shall be careful to perform what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

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:23:25 @ When you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.

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:24:6 @ "No man shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge; for he would be taking a life in pledge.

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:24:9 @ Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came forth out of Egypt.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:10 @ "When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

rsv@Deuteronomy:24:11 @ You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

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:24:16 @ "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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:24:18 @ but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.

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:24:22 @ You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.

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:25:6 @ And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

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:25:8 @ Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he persists, saying, `I do not wish to take her,'

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:25:16 @ For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:25:17 @ "Remember what Am'alek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,

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:26:5 @ "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:26:9 @ and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

rsv@Deuteronomy:26:11 @ and you shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

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:26:14 @ I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

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:26:18 @ 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:26:19 @ that he will set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has spoken."

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:27:12 @ "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:27:14 @ 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:27:19 @ "`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:27:25 @ "`Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:1 @ "And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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:28:9 @ 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:28:11 @ And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give 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:28:13 @ And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them,

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:14 @ and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

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:28:25 @ "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:28:26 @ And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

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:28:35 @ 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:28:36 @ "The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:38 @ You shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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:28:41 @ You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

rsv@Deuteronomy:28:44 @ He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

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:28:50 @ a nation of stern countenance, who shall not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young,

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:28:54 @ The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him;

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:28:56 @ The most tender and delicately bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter,

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:28:58 @ "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awful name, the LORD your God,

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:28:63 @ 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:28:68 @ 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:29:4 @ but to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:7 @ 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:29:9 @ Therefore be careful to do the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all that you do.

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:29:22 @ 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:29:23 @ the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomor'rah, Admah and Zeboi'im, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath--

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:24 @ yea, all the nations would say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?'

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:26 @ and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them;

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:28 @ and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as at this day.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:29:29 @ "The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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:30:2 @ and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you this day, with all your heart and with all your soul;

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:30:9 @ The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground; for the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,

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:30:11 @ "For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:12 @ It is not in heaven, that you should say, `Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

rsv@Deuteronomy:30:13 @ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, `Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

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:30:17 @ But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

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

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:1 @ So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:2 @ And he said to them, "I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, `You shall not go over this Jordan.'

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:31:5 @ And the LORD will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded 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:31:9 @ 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:31:11 @ 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:31:15 @ And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door of the tent.

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:31:18 @ And I will surely hide my face in that day on account of all the evil which they have done, because they have turned to other gods.

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:31:23 @ And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to give them: I will be with you."

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:24 @ When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, to the very end,

rsv@Deuteronomy:31:27 @ For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are; behold, while I am yet alive with you, today you have been rebellious against the LORD; how much more after my death!

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:31:29 @ For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands."

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:3 @ For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

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:32:16 @ They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:17 @ They sacrificed to demons which were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come in of late, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:21 @ They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:22 @ For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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:32:34 @ "Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:37 @ Then he will say, `Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:40 @ For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear, As I live for ever,

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:45 @ And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:46 @ he said to them, "Lay to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

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:32:50 @ and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;

rsv@Deuteronomy:32:52 @ For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the people of Israel."

rsv@Deuteronomy:33:3 @ Yea, he loved his people; all those consecrated to him were in his hand; so they followed in thy steps, receiving direction from thee,

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:33:17 @ 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:33:21 @ 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:33:26 @ "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:33:29 @ 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:34:4 @ 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:34:6 @ and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-pe'or; but no man knows the place of his burial to this day.

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:34:11 @ none like him for all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

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:1:6 @ Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

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:1:15 @ 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:1:18 @ Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage."

rsv@Joshua:2:1 @ 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:2:2 @ And it was told the king of Jericho, "Behold, certain men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land."

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

rsv@Joshua:2:4 @ But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them; and she said, "True, men came to me, but I did not know where they came from;

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

rsv@Joshua:2:6 @ But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

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

rsv@Joshua:2:8 @ Before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,

rsv@Joshua:2:9 @ and said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

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:2:12 @ Now then, swear to me by the LORD that as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign,

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:2:15 @ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she dwelt in the wall.

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:2:18 @ Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down; and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:2:23 @ Then the two men came down again from the hills, and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.

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

rsv@Joshua:3:1 @ Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim, with all the people of Israel; and they came to the Jordan, and lodged there before they passed over.

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:3:9 @ And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God."

rsv@Joshua:3:11 @ Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is to pass over before you into the Jordan.

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:4:1 @ When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

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:4:13 @ about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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:4:15 @ And the LORD said to Joshua,

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

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

rsv@Joshua:4:20 @ 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:4:23 @ For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

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

rsv@Joshua:5:2 @ At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time."

rsv@Joshua:5:6 @ 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:5:9 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.

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:6:2 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valor.

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:6:7 @ And he said to the people, "Go forward; march around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD."

rsv@Joshua:6:11 @ So he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and spent the night in the camp.

rsv@Joshua:6:12 @ Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.

rsv@Joshua:6:14 @ And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.

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

rsv@Joshua:6:22 @ And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's house, and bring out from it the woman, and all who belong to her, as you swore to her."

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

rsv@Joshua:7:2 @ Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-a'ven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." And the men went up and spied out Ai.

rsv@Joshua:7:3 @ And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few."

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:7:10 @ The LORD said to Joshua, "Arise, why have you thus fallen upon your face?

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:7:13 @ 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:7:19 @ Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and render praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me."

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua: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:8:1 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land;

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:8:3 @ So Joshua arose, and all the fighting men, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

rsv@Joshua:8:7 @ then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city; for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.

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

rsv@Joshua:8:12 @ And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

rsv@Joshua:8:14 @ 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:8:16 @ So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.

rsv@Joshua:8:18 @ Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

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

rsv@Joshua:8:20 @ 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:8:23 @ But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

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:8:27 @ Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

rsv@Joshua:8:28 @ So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.

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:8:30 @ Then Joshua built an altar in Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:9:2 @ they gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.

rsv@Joshua:9:3 @ But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

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:9:6 @ And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country; so now make a covenant with us."

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:9:8 @ They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who are you? And where do you come from?"

rsv@Joshua:9:9 @ They said to him, "From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

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:9:11 @ And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, `Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, "We are your servants; come now, make a covenant with us."'

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:9:14 @ So the men partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the LORD.

rsv@Joshua:9:15 @ And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

rsv@Joshua:9:18 @ But the people of Israel did not kill them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.

rsv@Joshua:9:19 @ But all the leaders said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.

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

rsv@Joshua:9:22 @ Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, "Why did you deceive us, saying, `We are very far from you,' when you dwell among us?

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:9:25 @ And now, behold, we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us."

rsv@Joshua:9:26 @ So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel; and they did not kill them.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:3 @ So Ado'ni-ze'dek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhi'a king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

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

rsv@Joshua:10:6 @ 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:10:8 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you."

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:12 @ 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:10:14 @ There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD hearkened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

rsv@Joshua:10:15 @ Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

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

rsv@Joshua:10:18 @ 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:10:21 @ all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makke'dah; not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.

rsv@Joshua:10:22 @ Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out to me from the cave."

rsv@Joshua:10:23 @ And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:10:41 @ 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:10:43 @ Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

rsv@Joshua:11:1 @ When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Ach'shaph,

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:11:5 @ 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:11:8 @ And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who smote them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Mis'rephoth-ma'im, and eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh; and they smote them, until they left none remaining.

rsv@Joshua:11:9 @ And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:11:13 @ 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:11:16 @ So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland

rsv@Joshua:11:17 @ 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:11:23 @ 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:12:3 @ 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: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:13:3 @ (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:13:6 @ all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Mis'rephoth-ma'im, even all the Sido'nians. I will myself drive them out from before the people of Israel; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

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:13:11 @ 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:13:13 @ 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:13:16 @ So their territory was from Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Med'eba;

rsv@Joshua:13:23 @ 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:13:33 @ 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:14:3 @ 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:14:6 @ 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:14:10 @ 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:14:13 @ Then Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephun'neh for an inheritance.

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

rsv@Joshua: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:15:3 @ 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:15:5 @ And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:15:20 @ 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:15:30 @ Elto'lad, Chesil, Hormah,

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:15:63 @ 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:17:1 @ Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manas'seh, for he was the first-born of Joseph. To Machir the first-born of Manas'seh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.

rsv@Joshua:17:2 @ 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:17:4 @ 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:17:8 @ The land of Tap'puah belonged to Manas'seh, but the town of Tap'puah on the boundary of Manas'seh belonged to the sons of E'phraim.

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

rsv@Joshua:17:10 @ the land to the south being E'phraim's and that to the north being Manas'seh's, with the sea forming its boundary; on the north Asher is reached, and on the east Is'sachar.

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:17:17 @ Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to E'phraim and Manas'seh, "You are a numerous people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only,

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:18:3 @ 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:18:5 @ They shall divide it into seven portions, Judah continuing in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph in their territory on the north.

rsv@Joshua:18:6 @ 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:18:8 @ 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:18:10 @ and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD; and there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.

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:18:28 @ 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:19:4 @ Elto'lad, Bethul, Hormah,

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

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

rsv@Joshua:19:10 @ 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:19:14 @ then on the north the boundary turns about to Han'nathon, and it ends at the valley of Iph'tahel;

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

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

rsv@Joshua:19:31 @ 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:19:39 @ 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:19:46 @ and Me-jar'kon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.

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

rsv@Joshua:19:48 @ 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:20:1 @ Then the LORD said to Joshua,

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:20:9 @ 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:21:7 @ The Merar'ites according to their families received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zeb'ulun, twelve cities.

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

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

rsv@Joshua:21:12 @ 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:21:20 @ 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:21:21 @ To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasture lands in the hill country of E'phraim, Gezer with its 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:21:34 @ And to the rest of the Levites, the Merar'ite families, were given out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun, Jok'ne-am with its pasture lands, Kartah with its pasture lands,

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

rsv@Joshua:21:43 @ 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:22:2 @ 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:22:12 @ And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh, to make war against them.

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:22:15 @ 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:22:18 @ that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? And if you rebel against the LORD today he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel tomorrow.

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:22:22 @ "The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith toward the LORD, spare us not today

rsv@Joshua:22:23 @ for building an altar to turn away from following the LORD; or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings on it, may the LORD himself take vengeance.

rsv@Joshua:22:24 @ Nay, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, `What have you to do with the LORD, the God 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:22:31 @ 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: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:23:6 @ 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:23:8 @ but cleave to the LORD your God as you have done to this day.

rsv@Joshua:23:9 @ For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no man has been able to withstand you to this day.

rsv@Joshua:23:10 @ One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as he promised you.

rsv@Joshua:23:11 @ Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.

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:23:14 @ "And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you, not one of them has failed.

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

rsv@Joshua:24:4 @ 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:24:6 @ Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

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

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

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

rsv@Joshua:24:15 @ 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:24:16 @ Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

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:24:21 @ And the people said to Joshua, "Nay; but we will serve the LORD."

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:24:23 @ He said, "Then put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel."

rsv@Joshua:24:24 @ And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey."

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:24:28 @ So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

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

rsv@Judges:1:1 @ 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:1:6 @ 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:1:13 @ 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:1:18 @ 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:1:23 @ 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:1:28 @ When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

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:1:33 @ 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: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:2:3 @ 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:2:10 @ And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the LORD or the work which he had done for Israel.

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

rsv@Judges:2:14 @ 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:2:17 @ And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

rsv@Judges:2:18 @ Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

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

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

rsv@Judges: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:3:4 @ 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:3:6 @ 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:3:8 @ 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:3:13 @ 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:3:15 @ But when the people of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

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

rsv@Judges:3:19 @ 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:3:23 @ Then Ehud went out into the vestibule, and closed the doors of the roof chamber upon him, and locked them.

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:3:28 @ 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:3:31 @ 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:4:2 @ 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:4:5 @ 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:4:12 @ 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:4:16 @ 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: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:5:6 @ "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Ja'el, caravans ceased and travelers kept to the byways.

rsv@Judges:5:8 @ 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:5:11 @ 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:5:14 @ 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:5:18 @ Zeb'ulun is a people that jeoparded their lives to the death; Naph'tali too, on the heights of the field.

rsv@Judges:5:21 @ The torrent Kishon swept them away, the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!

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:5:26 @ 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:5:29 @ Her wisest ladies make answer, nay, she gives answer to herself,

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:6:6 @ 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:6:10 @ 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:6:38 @ 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: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:7:4 @ 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:7:13 @ 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:7:19 @ 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:7:25 @ 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:8:12 @ And Zebah and Zalmun'na fled; and he pursued them and took the two kings of Mid'ian, Zebah and Zalmun'na, and he threw all the army into a panic.

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

rsv@Judges:8:16 @ 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:8:20 @ 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:8:27 @ And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

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

rsv@Judges: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:9:3 @ 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:9:5 @ 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:9:18 @ 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:9:21 @ And Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abim'elech his brother.

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:9:29 @ 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:9:31 @ 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:9:33 @ 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:9:35 @ 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:9:38 @ 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:9:40 @ And Abim'elech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.

rsv@Judges:9:42 @ 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: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:10:4 @ 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:10:7 @ 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:10:9 @ 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:10:14 @ 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:10:17 @ 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:11:2 @ And Gilead's wife also bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:11:12 @ 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:11:28 @ 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:11:39 @ 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:12:5 @ 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: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:13:3 @ 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:13:5 @ 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:13:15 @ 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:13:25 @ 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:14:5 @ 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:14:8 @ 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:15:10 @ 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:15:18 @ And he was very thirsty, and he called on the LORD and said, "Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

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

rsv@Judges:16:1 @ 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:16:5 @ 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:16:9 @ 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:16:21 @ 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:16:26 @ 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:16:28 @ 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:16:31 @ 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:17:2 @ 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:17:8 @ 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: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:18:12 @ 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:18:22 @ When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:18:28 @ 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: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:19:5 @ 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:19:11 @ 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:19:18 @ 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:19:20 @ 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:19:27 @ 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:20:1 @ Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:16 @ 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:20:18 @ 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:20:20 @ 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:20:25 @ And Benjamin went against them out of Gib'e-ah the second day, and felled to the ground eighteen thousand men of the people of Israel; all these were men who drew the sword.

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

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

rsv@Judges:20:31 @ 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:20:36 @ 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:20:39 @ 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:20:42 @ 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:20:45 @ 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:20:47 @ 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:21:5 @ And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall be put to death."

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

rsv@Judges:21:12 @ 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:21:18 @ 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:21:21 @ 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@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:1:6 @ Then she started with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.

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

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

rsv@Ruth:1:10 @ And they said to her, "No, we will return with you to your people."

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

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:1:16 @ But Ruth said, "Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

rsv@Ruth:1:17 @ where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you."

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

rsv@Ruth:1:19 @ So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them; and the women said, "Is this Na'omi?"

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

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:4 @ 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:2:5 @ Then Bo'az said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose maiden is this?"

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:10 @ 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:2:11 @ But Bo'az answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

rsv@Ruth:2:12 @ The LORD recompense you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!"

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:2:16 @ And also pull out some from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her."

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

rsv@Ruth:2:19 @ 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:3:1 @ Then Na'omi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek a home for you, that it may be well with you?

rsv@Ruth:3:2 @ 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:3:7 @ And when Bo'az had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and lay down.

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

rsv@Ruth:3:13 @ 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:3:16 @ And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did you fare, my daughter?" Then she told her all that the man had done for her,

rsv@Ruth:3:17 @ 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:4:1 @ And Bo'az went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the next of kin, of whom Bo'az had spoken, came by. So Bo'az said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here"; and he turned aside and sat down.

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

rsv@Ruth:4:3 @ Then he said to the next of kin, "Na'omi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land which belonged to our kinsman Elim'elech.

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:4:8 @ So when the next of kin said to Bo'az, "Buy it for yourself," he drew off his sandal.

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

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

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

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

rsv@Ruth:4:13 @ So Bo'az took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.

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:4:16 @ Then Na'omi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse.

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

rsv@1Samuel:1:3 @ 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:1:4 @ On the day when Elka'nah sacrificed, he would give portions to Penin'nah his wife and to all her sons and daughters;

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:1:11 @ And she vowed a vow and said, "O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy maidservant, and remember me, and not forget thy maidservant, but wilt give to thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head."

rsv@1Samuel:1:13 @ Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard; therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.

rsv@1Samuel:1:14 @ And Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."

rsv@1Samuel:1:17 @ Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have made to him."

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:1:25 @ Then they slew the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.

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

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:2:5 @ 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:2:8 @ 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:2:10 @ 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:2:13 @ 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:2:16 @ And if the man said to him, "Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish," he would say, "No, you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force."

rsv@1Samuel:2:19 @ And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:23 @ And he said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:26 @ Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and with men.

rsv@1Samuel:2:27 @ And there came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, "Thus the LORD has said, `I revealed myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh.

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:2:32 @ 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:2:34 @ And this which shall befall your two sons, Hophni and Phin'ehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.

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

rsv@1Samuel:3:2 @ 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:3:5 @ and ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call; lie down again." So he went and lay down.

rsv@1Samuel:3:6 @ And the LORD called again, "Samuel!" And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again."

rsv@1Samuel:3:7 @ Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

rsv@1Samuel:3:8 @ And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy.

rsv@1Samuel:3:9 @ Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, `Speak, LORD, for thy servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his 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:3:11 @ Then the LORD said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of every one that hears it will tingle.

rsv@1Samuel:3:12 @ On that day I will fulfil against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:3:17 @ And Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you."

rsv@1Samuel:3:18 @ So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him."

rsv@1Samuel:3:19 @ And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

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:3:21 @ And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word 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:4:3 @ 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:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phin'ehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

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:4:13 @ When he arrived, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.

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

rsv@1Samuel:4:16 @ And the man said to Eli, "I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today." And he said, "How did it go, my son?"

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

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

rsv@1Samuel: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:5:3 @ And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

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

rsv@1Samuel:5:8 @ 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:5:10 @ So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, "They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to slay us and our people."

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:5:12 @ the men who did not die were stricken with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

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:6:12 @ 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:7:1 @ And the men of Kir'iath-je'arim came and took up the ark of the LORD, and brought it to the house of Abin'adab on the hill; and they consecrated his son, Elea'zar, to have charge of the ark of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:7:3 @ 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:7:5 @ Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

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:7:9 @ So Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD; and Samuel cried to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.

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:7:12 @ 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:7:17 @ Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he administered justice to Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:5 @ and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations."

rsv@1Samuel:8:6 @ But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:8 @ According to all the deeds which they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

rsv@1Samuel:8:9 @ Now then, hearken to their voice; only, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."

rsv@1Samuel:8:10 @ So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:16 @ He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:22 @ And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."

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

rsv@1Samuel:9:9 @ (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer"; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

rsv@1Samuel:9:10 @ And Saul said to his servant, "Well said; come, let us go." So they went to the city where the man of God was.

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:9:15 @ Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed to Samuel:

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:9:17 @ When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall rule over my people."

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:9:23 @ And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, `Put it aside.'"

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

rsv@1Samuel:9:25 @ And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul upon the roof, and he lay down to sleep.

rsv@1Samuel:9:26 @ Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul upon the roof, "Up, that I may send you on your way." So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:3 @ 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:10:5 @ 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:10:8 @ And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do."

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

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

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

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:10:23 @ Then they ran and fetched him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

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

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:11:3 @ 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:11:7 @ 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:11:12 @ Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is it that said, `Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring the men, that we may put them to death."

rsv@1Samuel:11:13 @ But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has wrought deliverance in Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:11:14 @ Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom."

rsv@1Samuel:11:15 @ So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

rsv@1Samuel:12:1 @ And Samuel said to all Israel, "Behold, I have hearkened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and have made a king over you.

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

rsv@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."

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

rsv@1Samuel:12:8 @ 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:12:12 @ 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:12:14 @ If you will fear the LORD and serve him and hearken to his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well;

rsv@1Samuel:12:15 @ but if you will not hearken to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king.

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:12:20 @ And Samuel said to the people, "Fear not; you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

rsv@1Samuel:12:22 @ For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

rsv@1Samuel:12:23 @ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you; and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

rsv@1Samuel:13:1 @ Saul was... years old when he began to reign; and he reigned... and two years over Israel.

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:13:4 @ 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:13:7 @ or crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

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

rsv@1Samuel:13:9 @ So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:13:15 @ And Samuel arose, and went up from Gilgal to Gib'e-ah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:4 @ In the pass, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

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:14:9 @ If they say to us, `Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.

rsv@1Samuel:14:10 @ But if they say, `Come up to us,' then we will go up; for the LORD has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us."

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:17 @ Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number and see who has gone from us." And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:19 @ 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:14:20 @ Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

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:14:25 @ 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:14:30 @ 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:14:33 @ Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD, by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here."

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:14:35 @ And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

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:14:38 @ And Saul said, "Come hither, all you leaders of the people; and know and see how this sin has arisen today.

rsv@1Samuel:14:40 @ Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." And the people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

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

rsv@1Samuel:14:44 @ And Saul said, "God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan."

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:14:52 @ 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:15:1 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore hearken to the words of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:15:2 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, `I will punish what Am'alek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:15:5 @ And Saul came to the city of Am'alek, and lay in wait in the valley.

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:15:8 @ 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:15:10 @ The word of the LORD came to Samuel:

rsv@1Samuel:15:11 @ "I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.

rsv@1Samuel:15:12 @ And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."

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

rsv@1Samuel:15:20 @ 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:15:24 @ 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:15:26 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:15:27 @ As Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

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

rsv@1Samuel:15:32 @ 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:15:34 @ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gib'e-ah of Saul.

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:16:2 @ And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, `I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

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:16:4 @ Samuel did what the LORD commanded, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

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:16:10 @ 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:16:13 @ Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

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

rsv@1Samuel:16:15 @ And Saul's servants said to him, "Behold now, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you.

rsv@1Samuel:16:16 @ Let our lord now command your servants, who are before you, to seek out a man who is skilful in playing the lyre; and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well."

rsv@1Samuel:16:17 @ So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

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

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:17:3 @ 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:17:8 @ 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:17:9 @ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us."

rsv@1Samuel:17:10 @ And the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together."

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:17:15 @ but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

rsv@1Samuel:17:16 @ For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

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:17:20 @ 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:17:22 @ And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers.

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:26 @ 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:17:27 @ And the people answered him in the same way, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

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:17:30 @ And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way; and the people answered him again as before.

rsv@1Samuel:17:32 @ And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."

rsv@1Samuel:17:33 @ And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth."

rsv@1Samuel:17:34 @ But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,

rsv@1Samuel:17:37 @ And David said, "The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!"

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:17:41 @ And the Philistine came on and drew near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:43 @ And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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:17:48 @ When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.

rsv@1Samuel:17:49 @ And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead; the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

rsv@1Samuel:17:50 @ So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; there was no sword in the hand of David.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:57 @ And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

rsv@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

rsv@1Samuel:18:1 @ When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

rsv@1Samuel:18:2 @ And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house.

rsv@1Samuel:18:4 @ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his girdle.

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:18:7 @ And the women sang to one another as they made merry, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands."

rsv@1Samuel:18:8 @ And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and what more can he have but the kingdom?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:11 @ and Saul cast the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.

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:18:18 @ And David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my kinsfolk, my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:19 @ But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to A'driel the Meho'lathite for a wife.

rsv@1Samuel:18:20 @ Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

rsv@1Samuel:18:21 @ 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:18:22 @ And Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in private and say, `Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you; now then become the king's son-in-law.'"

rsv@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and of no repute?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:24 @ And the servants of Saul told him, "Thus and so did David speak."

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:19:1 @ And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

rsv@1Samuel:19:2 @ And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself;

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:19:4 @ And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you;

rsv@1Samuel:19:5 @ for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?"

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:19:10 @ 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:19:13 @ 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:19:17 @ 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:19:19 @ And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Nai'oth in Ramah."

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

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

rsv@1Samuel: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:20:4 @ Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you."

rsv@1Samuel:20:5 @ David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.

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:20:8 @ Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a sacred covenant with you. But if there is guilt in me, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:11 @ And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out into the field." So they both went out into the field.

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:20:13 @ But should it please my father to do you harm, the LORD do so to Jonathan, and more also, if I do not disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.

rsv@1Samuel:20:18 @ Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

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:20:20 @ And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.

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:20:22 @ But if I say to the youth, `Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go; for the LORD has sent you away.

rsv@1Samuel:20:24 @ So David hid himself in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.

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:20:32 @ Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:33 @ But Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

rsv@1Samuel:20:35 @ In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little lad.

rsv@1Samuel:20:36 @ And he said to his lad, "Run and find the arrows which I shoot." As the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:37 @ And when the lad came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:38 @ And Jonathan called after the lad, "Hurry, make haste, stay not." So Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

rsv@1Samuel:20:40 @ And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad, and said to him, "Go and carry them to the city."

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:21:5 @ 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:21:10 @ And David rose and fled that day from Saul, and went to A'chish the king of Gath.

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:21:14 @ Then said A'chish to his servants, "Lo, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?

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:22:3 @ And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Pray let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me."

rsv@1Samuel:22:5 @ Then the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed, and went into the forest of Hereth.

rsv@1Samuel:22:7 @ 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:22:15 @ Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little."

rsv@1Samuel:22:17 @ 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:22:21 @ And Abi'athar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said to Abi'athar, "I knew on that day, when Do'eg the E'domite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.

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

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

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:23:5 @ And David and his men went to Kei'lah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Kei'lah.

rsv@1Samuel:23:6 @ When Abi'athar the son of Ahim'elech fled to David to Kei'lah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

rsv@1Samuel:23:7 @ Now it was told Saul that David had come to Kei'lah. And Saul said, "God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars."

rsv@1Samuel:23:8 @ And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Kei'lah, to besiege David and his men.

rsv@1Samuel:23:9 @ 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:23:12 @ Then said David, "Will the men of Kei'lah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will surrender you."

rsv@1Samuel:23:13 @ Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Kei'lah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Kei'lah, he gave up the expedition.

rsv@1Samuel:23:14 @ 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:23:17 @ And he said to him, "Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; Saul my father also knows this."

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:23:22 @ Go, make yet more sure; know and see the place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he is very cunning.

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:23:26 @ Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was making haste to get away from Saul, as Saul and his men were closing in upon David and his men to capture them,

rsv@1Samuel:23:27 @ when a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Make haste and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land."

rsv@1Samuel:24:1 @ When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-ge'di."

rsv@1Samuel:24:2 @ Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.

rsv@1Samuel:24:3 @ And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

rsv@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, `Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe.

rsv@1Samuel:24:6 @ He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD'S anointed."

rsv@1Samuel:24:7 @ 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:24:8 @ Afterward David also arose, and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

rsv@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, `Behold, David seeks your hurt'?

rsv@1Samuel:24:10 @ Lo, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill you, but I spared you. I said, `I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.'

rsv@1Samuel:24:11 @ See, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for by the fact that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

rsv@1Samuel:24:15 @ May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see to it, and plead my cause, and deliver me from your hand."

rsv@1Samuel:24:16 @ When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

rsv@1Samuel:24:17 @ He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.

rsv@1Samuel:24:18 @ And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands.

rsv@1Samuel:24:19 @ For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

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:24:22 @ And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

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:25:5 @ So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

rsv@1Samuel:25:6 @ And thus you shall salute him: `Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

rsv@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a feast day. Pray, give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"

rsv@1Samuel:25:9 @ When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited.

rsv@1Samuel:25:11 @ Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"

rsv@1Samuel:25:12 @ So David's young men turned away, and came back and told him all this.

rsv@1Samuel:25:13 @ And David said to his men, "Every man gird on his sword!" And every man of them girded on his sword; David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.

rsv@1Samuel:25:14 @ But one of the young men told Ab'igail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

rsv@1Samuel:25:15 @ Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them;

rsv@1Samuel:25:16 @ they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

rsv@1Samuel:25:17 @ Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him."

rsv@1Samuel:25:18 @ Then Ab'igail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

rsv@1Samuel:25:19 @ And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

rsv@1Samuel:25:20 @ And as she rode on the ass, and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

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:25:22 @ God do so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him."

rsv@1Samuel:25:23 @ When Ab'igail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed to the ground.

rsv@1Samuel:25:26 @ 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:25:29 @ 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:25:30 @ And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

rsv@1Samuel:25:32 @ And David said to Ab'igail, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

rsv@1Samuel:25:34 @ For as surely as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had made haste and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."

rsv@1Samuel:25:35 @ Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and I have granted your petition."

rsv@1Samuel:25:36 @ And Ab'igail came to Nabal; and, lo, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

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:25:40 @ And when the servants of David came to Ab'igail at Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."

rsv@1Samuel:25:41 @ And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground, and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."

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

rsv@1Samuel:25:44 @ Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of La'ish, who was of Gallim.

rsv@1Samuel:26:1 @ Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gib'e-ah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is on the east of Jeshi'mon?"

rsv@1Samuel:26:2 @ 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:26:5 @ Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.

rsv@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then David said to Ahim'elech the Hittite, and to Jo'ab's brother Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abi'shai said, "I will go down with you."

rsv@1Samuel:26:7 @ So David and Abi'shai went to the army by night; and there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay around him.

rsv@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then said Abi'shai to David, "God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice."

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:26:12 @ So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.

rsv@1Samuel:26:13 @ Then David went over to the other side, and stood afar off on the top of the mountain, with a great space between them;

rsv@1Samuel:26:14 @ and David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Will you not answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you that calls to the king?"

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:26:20 @ 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:26:23 @ 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:27:2 @ So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to A'chish the son of Ma'och, king of Gath.

rsv@1Samuel:27:4 @ And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he sought for him no more.

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

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:28:2 @ David said to A'chish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." And A'chish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life."

rsv@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a medium at Endor."

rsv@1Samuel:28:8 @ So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments, and went, he and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night. And he said, "Divine for me by a spirit, and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you."

rsv@1Samuel:28:9 @ The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the wizards from the land. Why then are you laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?"

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:28:12 @ When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul."

rsv@1Samuel:28:13 @ The king said to her, "Have no fear; what do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth."

rsv@1Samuel:28:14 @ He said to her, "What is his appearance?" And she said, "An old man is coming up; and he is wrapped in a robe." And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

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:28:17 @ The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me; for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, David.

rsv@1Samuel:28:18 @ Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Am'alek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.

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:28:21 @ And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your handmaid has hearkened to you; I have taken my life in my hand, and have hearkened to what you have said to me.

rsv@1Samuel:28:22 @ Now therefore, you also hearken to your handmaid; let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way."

rsv@1Samuel:28:23 @ He refused, and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he hearkened to their words. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

rsv@1Samuel:28:24 @ Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour, and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,

rsv@1Samuel: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:29:8 @ 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:30:6 @ 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:30:9 @ 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:30:11 @ They found an Egyptian in the open country, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, they gave him water to drink,

rsv@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said to him, "To whom do you belong? And where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amal'ekite; and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.

rsv@1Samuel:30:14 @ We had made a raid upon the Negeb of the Cher'ethites and upon that which belongs to Judah and upon the Negeb of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

rsv@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, "Will you take me down to this band?" And he said, "Swear to me by God, that you will not kill me, or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band."

rsv@1Samuel:30:21 @ 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:30:25 @ And from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

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: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:31:4 @ 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:31:6 @ Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.

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:31:10 @ They put his armor in the temple of Ash'taroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

rsv@1Samuel:31:11 @ 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:1:2 @ 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:1:4 @ And David said to him, "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."

rsv@2Samuel:1:5 @ Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

rsv@2Samuel:1:6 @ And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilbo'a; and there was Saul leaning upon his spear; and lo, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.

rsv@2Samuel:1:7 @ And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, `Here I am.'

rsv@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said to me, `Who are you?' I answered him, `I am an Amal'ekite.'

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:1:13 @ And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amal'ekite."

rsv@2Samuel:1:14 @ David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:1:16 @ 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:1:18 @ and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:

rsv@2Samuel:1:26 @ 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:2:3 @ And David brought up his men who were with him, every one with his household; and they dwelt in the towns of Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:2:4 @ And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead who buried Saul,"

rsv@2Samuel:2:5 @ 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:2:8 @ Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahana'im;

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

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

rsv@2Samuel:2:14 @ And Abner said to Jo'ab, "Let the young men arise and play before us." And Jo'ab said, "Let them arise."

rsv@2Samuel:2:16 @ And each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his opponent's side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Hel'kath-hazzu'rim, which is at Gibeon.

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

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

rsv@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to As'ahel, "Turn aside from following me; why should I smite you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Jo'ab?"

rsv@2Samuel:2:23 @ But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner smote him in the belly with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he fell there, and died where he was. And all who came to the place where As'ahel had fallen and died, stood still.

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

rsv@2Samuel:2:25 @ And the Benjaminites gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one band, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

rsv@2Samuel:2:26 @ Then Abner called to Jo'ab, "Shall the sword devour for ever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you bid your people turn from the pursuit of their brethren?"

rsv@2Samuel:2:28 @ So Jo'ab blew the trumpet; and all the men stopped, and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight any more.

rsv@2Samuel:2:29 @ And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; they crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole forenoon they came to Mahana'im.

rsv@2Samuel:2:30 @ Jo'ab returned from the pursuit of Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David's servants nineteen men besides As'ahel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:32 @ And they took up As'ahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Jo'ab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:3:2 @ And sons were born to David at Hebron: his first-born was Amnon, of Ahin'o-am of Jezreel;

rsv@2Samuel:3:5 @ and the sixth, Ith're-am, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:3:7 @ Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Ai'ah; and Ish-bo'sheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"

rsv@2Samuel:3:8 @ Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bo'sheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? This day I keep showing loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.

rsv@2Samuel:3:9 @ God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him,

rsv@2Samuel:3:10 @ to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beer-sheba."

rsv@2Samuel:3:12 @ 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:3:15 @ And Ish-bo'sheth sent, and took her from her husband Pal'ti-el the son of La'ish.

rsv@2Samuel:3:16 @ But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahu'rim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return"; and he returned.

rsv@2Samuel:3:19 @ Abner also spoke to Benjamin; and then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.

rsv@2Samuel:3:20 @ When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

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:3:23 @ When Jo'ab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Jo'ab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace."

rsv@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Jo'ab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?

rsv@2Samuel:3:25 @ You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."

rsv@2Samuel:3:27 @ And when Abner returned to Hebron, Jo'ab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of As'ahel his brother.

rsv@2Samuel:3:31 @ 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:3:35 @ 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:3:36 @ And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as everything that the king did pleased all the people.

rsv@2Samuel:3:37 @ So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner.

rsv@2Samuel:3:38 @ And the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

rsv@2Samuel:3:39 @ And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeru'iah are too hard for me. The LORD requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

rsv@2Samuel:4:2 @ Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Ba'anah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Be-er'oth (for Be-er'oth also is reckoned to Benjamin;

rsv@2Samuel:4:3 @ the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, and have been sojourners there to this day).

rsv@2Samuel:4:4 @ Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled; and, as she fled in her haste, he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephib'osheth.

rsv@2Samuel:4:5 @ Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, Rechab and Ba'anah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bo'sheth, as he was taking his noonday rest.

rsv@2Samuel:4:7 @ When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,

rsv@2Samuel:4:8 @ and brought the head of Ish-bo'sheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-bo'sheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring."

rsv@2Samuel:4:10 @ when one told me, `Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

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:5:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:5:4 @ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

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:5:13 @ 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:5:19 @ 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:5:23 @ 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:6:2 @ And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba'ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.

rsv@2Samuel:6:6 @ And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

rsv@2Samuel:6:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God.

rsv@2Samuel:6:8 @ And David was angry because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Pe'rez-uz'zah, to this day.

rsv@2Samuel:6:9 @ And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?"

rsv@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David; but David took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.

rsv@2Samuel:6:12 @ 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:6:16 @ 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:6:19 @ and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:6:20 @ And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

rsv@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD--and I will make merry before the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:6:23 @ And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

rsv@2Samuel:7:2 @ the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."

rsv@2Samuel:7:3 @ And Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for the LORD is with you."

rsv@2Samuel:7:4 @ But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

rsv@2Samuel:7:5 @ "Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?

rsv@2Samuel:7:6 @ I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.

rsv@2Samuel:7:7 @ 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:7:8 @ Now therefore thus you shall 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@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:7:15 @ but I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

rsv@2Samuel:7:17 @ 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:7:23 @ What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name, and doing for them great and terrible things, by driving out before his people a nation and its gods?

rsv@2Samuel: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:7:27 @ For thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast made this revelation to thy servant, saying, `I will build you a house'; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray this prayer to thee.

rsv@2Samuel:7:28 @ And now, O Lord GOD, thou art God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;

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:8:5 @ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadade'zer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

rsv@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:7 @ And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadade'zer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:8:8 @ And from Betah and from Bero'thai, cities of Hadade'zer, King David took very much bronze.

rsv@2Samuel:8:9 @ When To'i king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadade'zer,

rsv@2Samuel:8:10 @ To'i sent his son Joram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'i. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze;

rsv@2Samuel:8:11 @ these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,

rsv@2Samuel:8:14 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:15 @ So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

rsv@2Samuel:9:2 @ Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "Your servant is he."

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:9:4 @ The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of Machir the son of Am'miel, at Lo-debar."

rsv@2Samuel:9:6 @ And Mephib'osheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face and did obeisance. And David said, "Mephib'osheth!" And he answered, "Behold, your servant."

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:9:9 @ Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's son.

rsv@2Samuel:9:10 @ And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him, and shall bring in the produce, that your master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephib'osheth your master's son shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

rsv@2Samuel:9:11 @ Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do." So Mephib'osheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.

rsv@2Samuel: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:10:4 @ So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off half the beard of each, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.

rsv@2Samuel:10:5 @ When it was told David, 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@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:10:11 @ 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:10:13 @ So Jo'ab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians; and they fled before 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:11:5 @ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am with child."

rsv@2Samuel:11:6 @ So David sent word to Jo'ab, "Send me Uri'ah the Hittite." And Jo'ab sent Uri'ah to David.

rsv@2Samuel:11:7 @ When Uri'ah came to him, David asked how Jo'ab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

rsv@2Samuel:11:8 @ Then David said to Uri'ah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uri'ah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.

rsv@2Samuel:11:9 @ But Uri'ah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:10 @ When they told David, "Uri'ah did not go down to his house," David said to Uri'ah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"

rsv@2Samuel:11:11 @ Uri'ah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Jo'ab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."

rsv@2Samuel:11:12 @ Then David said to Uri'ah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uri'ah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next.

rsv@2Samuel:11:13 @ And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:14 @ In the morning David wrote a letter to Jo'ab, and sent it by the hand of Uri'ah.

rsv@2Samuel:11:16 @ And as Jo'ab was besieging the city, he assigned Uri'ah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.

rsv@2Samuel:11:18 @ Then Jo'ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;

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:11:27 @ And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:12:1 @ And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

rsv@2Samuel:12:3 @ but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his morsel, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.

rsv@2Samuel:12:4 @ Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to 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:12:7 @ Nathan said to David, "You are the man. Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;

rsv@2Samuel:12:8 @ and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

rsv@2Samuel:12:9 @ Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uri'ah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite to be your wife.'

rsv@2Samuel:12:11 @ 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:12:13 @ David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

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:12:15 @ Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uri'ah's wife bore to David, and it became sick.

rsv@2Samuel:12:17 @ 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:12:18 @ On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."

rsv@2Samuel:12:19 @ But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."

rsv@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD, and worshiped; he then went to his own house; and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

rsv@2Samuel:12:21 @ Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."

rsv@2Samuel:12:22 @ He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, `Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

rsv@2Samuel:12:23 @ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."

rsv@2Samuel:12:24 @ Then David comforted his wife, Bathshe'ba, and went in to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him,

rsv@2Samuel:12:26 @ Now Jo'ab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.

rsv@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Jo'ab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

rsv@2Samuel:12:28 @ 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:12:29 @ So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.

rsv@2Samuel:12:30 @ And he took the crown of their king from his head; the weight of it was 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@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:13:2 @ And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Ab'salom's sister."

rsv@2Samuel:13:5 @ Jon'adab said to him, "Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him, `Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"

rsv@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Pray let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."

rsv@2Samuel:13:7 @ Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

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:13:9 @ And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, "Send out every one from me." So every one went out from him.

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:13:11 @ But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."

rsv@2Samuel:13:12 @ She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.

rsv@2Samuel:13:13 @ As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

rsv@2Samuel:13:14 @ But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:15 @ Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Arise, be gone."

rsv@2Samuel:13:16 @ But she said to him, "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:20 @ And her brother Ab'salom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar dwelt, a desolate woman, in her brother Ab'salom's house.

rsv@2Samuel:13:22 @ But Ab'salom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Ab'salom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

rsv@2Samuel:13:24 @ And Ab'salom came to the king, and said, "Behold, your servant has sheepshearers; pray let the king and his servants go with your servant."

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:13:26 @ Then Ab'salom said, "If not, pray let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

rsv@2Samuel:13:28 @ Then Ab'salom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, `Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."

rsv@2Samuel:13:29 @ So the servants of Ab'salom did to Amnon as Ab'salom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.

rsv@2Samuel:13:30 @ While they were on the way, tidings came to David, "Ab'salom has slain all the king's sons, and not one of them is left."

rsv@2Samuel:13:33 @ Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon alone is dead."

rsv@2Samuel:13:35 @ And Jon'adab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about."

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:13:39 @ And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Ab'salom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.

rsv@2Samuel:14:1 @ Now Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah perceived that the king's heart went out to Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Jo'ab sent to Teko'a, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;

rsv@2Samuel:14:3 @ and go to the king, and speak thus to him." So Jo'ab put the words in her mouth.

rsv@2Samuel:14:4 @ When the woman of Teko'a came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king."

rsv@2Samuel:14:5 @ And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

rsv@2Samuel:14:6 @ And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

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:14:8 @ Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

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:14:10 @ The king said, "If any one says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again."

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:14:12 @ Then the woman said, "Pray let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."

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:14:20 @ In order to change the course of affairs your servant Jo'ab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."

rsv@2Samuel:14:21 @ Then the king said to Jo'ab, "Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Ab'salom."

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:14:25 @ Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his beauty as Ab'salom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

rsv@2Samuel:14:26 @ And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

rsv@2Samuel:14:27 @ There were born to Ab'salom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.

rsv@2Samuel:14:28 @ So Ab'salom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.

rsv@2Samuel:14:29 @ Then Ab'salom sent for Jo'ab, to send him to the king; but Jo'ab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Jo'ab would not come.

rsv@2Samuel:14:30 @ Then he said to his servants, "See, Jo'ab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Ab'salom's servants set the field on fire.

rsv@2Samuel:14:31 @ Then Jo'ab arose and went to Ab'salom at his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"

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:14:33 @ Then Jo'ab went to the king, and told him; and he summoned Ab'salom. So he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:15:1 @ After this Ab'salom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Ab'salom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Ab'salom would call to him, and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"

rsv@2Samuel:15:3 @ Ab'salom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:4 @ Ab'salom said moreover, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."

rsv@2Samuel:15:5 @ And whenever a man came near to do obeisance to him, he would put out his hand, and take hold of him, and kiss him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:6 @ Thus Ab'salom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Ab'salom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:15:7 @ And at the end of four years Ab'salom said to the king, "Pray let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.

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:15:9 @ The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

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:15:19 @ Then the king said to It'tai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your home.

rsv@2Samuel:15:20 @ You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:22 @ And David said to It'tai, "Go then, pass on." So It'tai the Gittite passed on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:23 @ 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:15:25 @ 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:15:26 @ but if he says, `I have no pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him."

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:15:29 @ So Zadok and Abi'athar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem; and they remained there.

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:15:32 @ When David came to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head.

rsv@2Samuel:15:33 @ David said to him, "If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.

rsv@2Samuel:15:34 @ But if you return to the city, and say to Ab'salom, `I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahith'ophel.

rsv@2Samuel:15:35 @ Are not Zadok and Abi'athar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests.

rsv@2Samuel:15:36 @ Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahim'a-az, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abi'athar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything you hear."

rsv@2Samuel:15:37 @ So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Ab'salom was entering Jerusalem.

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:16:3 @ And the king said, "And where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, `Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.'"

rsv@2Samuel:16:4 @ Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belonged to Mephib'osheth is now yours." And Ziba said, "I do obeisance; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king."

rsv@2Samuel:16:5 @ When King David came to Bahu'rim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shim'e-i, the son of Gera; and as he came he cursed continually.

rsv@2Samuel:16:6 @ 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:16:8 @ The LORD has avenged upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Ab'salom. See, your ruin is on you; for you are a man of blood."

rsv@2Samuel:16:9 @ Then Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."

rsv@2Samuel:16:10 @ But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, `Curse David,' who then shall say, `Why have you done so?'"

rsv@2Samuel:16:11 @ And David said to Abi'shai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him.

rsv@2Samuel:16:12 @ It may be that the LORD will look upon my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me with good for this cursing of me today."

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:16:15 @ Now Ab'salom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahith'ophel with him.

rsv@2Samuel:16:16 @ And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Ab'salom, Hushai said to Ab'salom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

rsv@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Ab'salom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"

rsv@2Samuel:16:18 @ And Hushai said to Ab'salom, "No; for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.

rsv@2Samuel:16:20 @ Then Ab'salom said to Ahith'ophel, "Give your counsel; what shall we do?"

rsv@2Samuel:16:21 @ Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened."

rsv@2Samuel:16:22 @ 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:17:1 @ Moreover Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

rsv@2Samuel:17:2 @ I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged, and throw him into a panic; and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down the king only,

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:17:5 @ Then Ab'salom said, "Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say."

rsv@2Samuel:17:6 @ And when Hushai came to Ab'salom, Ab'salom said to him, "Thus has Ahith'ophel spoken; shall we do as he advises? If not, you speak."

rsv@2Samuel:17:7 @ Then Hushai said to Ab'salom, "This time the counsel which Ahith'ophel has given is not good."

rsv@2Samuel:17:11 @ But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beer-sheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

rsv@2Samuel:17:12 @ So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.

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:17:14 @ And Ab'salom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahith'ophel." For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahith'ophel, so that the LORD might bring evil upon Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:17:15 @ Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahith'ophel counsel Ab'salom and the elders of Israel; and thus and so have I counseled.

rsv@2Samuel:17:16 @ Now therefore send quickly and tell David, `Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"

rsv@2Samuel:17:17 @ Now Jonathan and Ahim'a-az were waiting at En-ro'gel; a maidservant used to go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David; for they must not be seen entering the city.

rsv@2Samuel:17:18 @ But a lad saw them, and told Ab'salom; so both of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahu'rim, who had a well in his courtyard; and they went down into it.

rsv@2Samuel:17:19 @ And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and scattered grain upon it; and nothing was known of it.

rsv@2Samuel:17:20 @ When Ab'salom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahim'a-az and Jonathan?" And the woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:17:21 @ After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, "Arise, and go quickly over the water; for thus and so has Ahith'ophel counseled against you."

rsv@2Samuel:17:23 @ When Ahith'ophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

rsv@2Samuel:17:24 @ Then David came to Mahana'im. And Ab'salom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:17:27 @ 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:17:29 @ 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:18:2 @ And David sent forth the army, one third under the command of Jo'ab, one third under the command of Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah, Jo'ab's brother, and one third under the command of It'tai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you."

rsv@2Samuel:18:4 @ 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:18:5 @ And the king ordered Jo'ab and Abi'shai and It'tai, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Ab'salom." And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Ab'salom.

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:18:9 @ 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:18:10 @ And a certain man saw it, and told Jo'ab, "Behold, I saw Ab'salom hanging in an oak."

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:18:13 @ On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof."

rsv@2Samuel:18:14 @ Jo'ab said, "I will not waste time like this with you." And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Ab'salom, while he was still alive in the oak.

rsv@2Samuel:18:17 @ 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:18:18 @ Now Ab'salom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance"; he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Ab'salom's monument to this day.

rsv@2Samuel:18:19 @ 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:18:20 @ And Jo'ab said to him, "You are not to carry tidings today; you may carry tidings another day, but today you shall carry no tidings, because the king's son is dead."

rsv@2Samuel:18:21 @ Then Jo'ab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed before Jo'ab, and ran.

rsv@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok said again to Jo'ab, "Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite." And Jo'ab said, "Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the tidings?"

rsv@2Samuel:18:23 @ "Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahi'ma-az ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.

rsv@2Samuel:18:24 @ Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

rsv@2Samuel:18:25 @ And the watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, there are tidings in his mouth." And he came apace, and drew near.

rsv@2Samuel:18:26 @ And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gate and said, "See, another man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings tidings."

rsv@2Samuel:18:28 @ 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:18:30 @ And the king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." So he turned aside, and stood still.

rsv@2Samuel:18:32 @ The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Ab'salom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be like that young man."

rsv@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, "O my son Ab'salom, my son, my son Ab'salom! Would I had died instead of you, O Ab'salom, my son, my son!"

rsv@2Samuel:19:1 @ It was told Jo'ab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Ab'salom."

rsv@2Samuel:19:2 @ So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son."

rsv@2Samuel:19:3 @ And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

rsv@2Samuel:19:5 @ Then Jo'ab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

rsv@2Samuel:19:6 @ because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for today I perceive that if Ab'salom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.

rsv@2Samuel:19:7 @ Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now."

rsv@2Samuel:19:8 @ Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate"; and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.

rsv@2Samuel:19:11 @ 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:19:14 @ And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man; so that they sent word to the king, "Return, both you and all your servants."

rsv@2Samuel:19:15 @ So the king came back to the Jordan; and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.

rsv@2Samuel:19:16 @ And Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahu'rim, made haste to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David;

rsv@2Samuel:19:17 @ and with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,

rsv@2Samuel:19:18 @ and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household, and to do his pleasure. And Shim'e-i the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,

rsv@2Samuel:19:19 @ and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; let not the king bear it in mind.

rsv@2Samuel:19:20 @ For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."

rsv@2Samuel:19:21 @ Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah answered, "Shall not Shim'e-i be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:22 @ But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall any one be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:23 @ And the king said to Shim'e-i, "You shall not die." And the king gave him his oath.

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:19:25 @ And when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephib'osheth?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:26 @ He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, `Saddle an ass for me, that I may ride upon it and go with the king.' For your servant is lame.

rsv@2Samuel:19:27 @ He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

rsv@2Samuel:19:28 @ For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king; but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land."

rsv@2Samuel:19:30 @ And Mephib'osheth said to the king, "Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home."

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:19:33 @ And the king said to Barzil'lai, "Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem."

rsv@2Samuel:19:34 @ But Barzil'lai said to the king, "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

rsv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

rsv@2Samuel:19:37 @ Pray let your servant return, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you; and all that you desire of me I will do for you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:39 @ 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:19:40 @ The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; all the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.

rsv@2Samuel:19:41 @ Then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:42 @ All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:20:1 @ Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!"

rsv@2Samuel:20:2 @ So all the men of Israel withdrew from David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

rsv@2Samuel:20:4 @ Then the king said to Ama'sa, "Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself."

rsv@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Ama'sa went to summon Judah; but he delayed beyond the set time which had been appointed him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:6 @ 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:20:8 @ When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Ama'sa came to meet them. Now Jo'ab was wearing a soldier's garment, and over it was a girdle with a sword in its sheath fastened upon his loins, and as he went forward it fell out.

rsv@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Jo'ab said to Ama'sa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Jo'ab took Ama'sa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:10 @ But Ama'sa did not observe the sword which was in Jo'ab's hand; so Jo'ab struck him with it in the body, and shed his bowels to the ground, without striking a second blow; and he died. Then Jo'ab and Abi'shai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:11 @ And one of Jo'ab's men took his stand by Ama'sa, and said, "Whoever favors Jo'ab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Jo'ab."

rsv@2Samuel:20:12 @ And Ama'sa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And any one who came by, seeing him, stopped; and when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Ama'sa out of the highway into the field, and threw a garment over him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Jo'ab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:14 @ And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-ma'acah; and all the Bichrites assembled, and followed him in.

rsv@2Samuel:20:15 @ And all the men who were with Jo'ab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-ma'acah; they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and they were battering the wall, to throw it down.

rsv@2Samuel:20:16 @ Then a wise woman called from the city, "Hear! Hear! Tell Jo'ab, `Come here, that I may speak to you.'"

rsv@2Samuel:20:17 @ And he came near her; and the woman said, "Are you Jo'ab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your maidservant." And he answered, "I am listening."

rsv@2Samuel:20:18 @ Then she said, "They were wont to say in old time, `Let them but ask counsel at Abel'; and so they settled a matter.

rsv@2Samuel:20:19 @ 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:20:21 @ That is not true. But a man of the hill country of E'phraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David; give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city." And the woman said to Jo'ab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."

rsv@2Samuel:20:22 @ Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Jo'ab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Jo'ab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

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:21:6 @ let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them up before the LORD at Gibeon on the mountain of the LORD." And the king said, "I will give them."

rsv@2Samuel:21:8 @ The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah, whom she bore to Saul, Armo'ni and Mephib'osheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to A'dri-el the son of Barzil'lai the Meho'lathite;

rsv@2Samuel:21:9 @ and he gave them into the hands of the Gib'eonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:10 @ Then Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

rsv@2Samuel:21:11 @ When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

rsv@2Samuel:21:12 @ 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:21:14 @ 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:21:20 @ 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: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:22:4 @ 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:22:7 @ "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:22:17 @ "He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

rsv@2Samuel:22:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:20 @ He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:21 @ "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

rsv@2Samuel:22:28 @ Thou dost deliver a humble people, but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.

rsv@2Samuel:22:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:45 @ Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

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:23:2 @ "The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me, his word is upon my tongue.

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:23:7 @ 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:23:9 @ 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:23:15 @ And David said longingly, "O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!"

rsv@2Samuel:23:16 @ Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it; he poured it out to the LORD,

rsv@2Samuel:23:19 @ He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.

rsv@2Samuel:23:21 @ And he slew an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but Benai'ah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

rsv@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

rsv@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Aho'hite, Ma'harai of Netoph'ah,

rsv@2Samuel:23:29 @ Heleb the son of Ba'anah of Netoph'ah, It'tai the son of Ri'bai of Gib'e-ah of the Benjaminites,

rsv@2Samuel: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:24:5 @ They crossed the Jordan, and began from Aro'er, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.

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:24:8 @ So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

rsv@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Jo'ab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

rsv@2Samuel:24:10 @ But David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."

rsv@2Samuel:24:11 @ And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

rsv@2Samuel:24:12 @ "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@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:24:20 @ And when Arau'nah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him; and Arau'nah went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground.

rsv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Arau'nah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor of you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people."

rsv@2Samuel:24:22 @ Then Arau'nah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him; here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

rsv@2Samuel:24:23 @ All this, O king, Arau'nah gives to the king." And Arau'nah said to the king, "The LORD your God accept you."

rsv@2Samuel:24:24 @ But the king said to Arau'nah, "No, but I will buy it of you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

rsv@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD heeded supplications for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

rsv@1Kings:1:2 @ Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young maiden be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait upon the king, and be his nurse; let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may be warm."

rsv@1Kings:1:3 @ So they sought for a beautiful maiden throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite, and brought her to the king.

rsv@1Kings:1:4 @ The maiden was very beautiful; and she became the king's nurse and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

rsv@1Kings:1:5 @ Now Adoni'jah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king"; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

rsv@1Kings:1:9 @ 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:1:13 @ Go in at once to King David, and say to him, `Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your maidservant, saying, "Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne"? Why then is Adoni'jah king?'

rsv@1Kings:1:15 @ So Bathshe'ba went to the king into his chamber (now the king was very old, and Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite was ministering to the king).

rsv@1Kings:1:16 @ Bathshe'ba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, "What do you desire?"

rsv@1Kings:1:17 @ She said to him, "My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God, saying, `Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.'

rsv@1Kings:1:20 @ And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

rsv@1Kings:1:21 @ Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders."

rsv@1Kings:1:23 @ And they told the king, "Here is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.

rsv@1Kings:1:27 @ Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

rsv@1Kings:1:28 @ Then King David answered, "Call Bathshe'ba to me." So she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.

rsv@1Kings:1:30 @ as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, `Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead'; even so will I do this day."

rsv@1Kings:1:31 @ Then Bathshe'ba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "May my lord King David live for ever!"

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:1:33 @ And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon;

rsv@1Kings:1:35 @ You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah."

rsv@1Kings:1:38 @ 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:1:44 @ 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:1:47 @ Moreover the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, `Your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.' And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

rsv@1Kings:1:48 @ And the king also said, `Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.'"

rsv@1Kings:1:51 @ And it was told Solomon, "Behold, Adoni'jah fears King Solomon; for, lo, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, `Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not slay his servant with the sword.'"

rsv@1Kings: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:1:53 @ So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and did obeisance to King Solomon; and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house."

rsv@1Kings:2:1 @ When David's time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying,

rsv@1Kings:2:2 @ "I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,

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:2:6 @ Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

rsv@1Kings:2:8 @ And there is also with you Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahu'rim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahana'im; but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, `I will not put you to death with the sword.'

rsv@1Kings:2:9 @ 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:2:13 @ Then Adoni'jah the son of Haggith came to Bathshe'ba the mother of Solomon. And she said, "Do you come peaceably?" He said, "Peaceably."

rsv@1Kings:2:14 @ Then he said, "I have something to say to you." She said, "Say on."

rsv@1Kings:2:15 @ He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign; however the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:2:16 @ And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Say on."

rsv@1Kings:2:17 @ And he said, "Pray ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite as my wife."

rsv@1Kings:2:18 @ Bathshe'ba said, "Very well; I will speak for you to the king."

rsv@1Kings:2:19 @ So Bathshe'ba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adoni'jah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king's mother; and she sat on his right.

rsv@1Kings:2:20 @ 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:2:21 @ She said, "Let Ab'ishag the Shu'nammite be given to Adoni'jah your brother as his wife."

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:2:28 @ When the news came to Jo'ab --for Jo'ab had supported Adoni'jah although he had not supported Ab'salom-- Jo'ab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

rsv@1Kings:2:29 @ And when it was told King Solomon, "Jo'ab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar," Solomon sent Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, saying, "Go, strike him down."

rsv@1Kings:2:30 @ So Benai'ah came to the tent of the LORD, and said to him, "The king commands, `Come forth.'" But he said, "No, I will die here." Then Benai'ah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Jo'ab, and thus he answered me."

rsv@1Kings:2:31 @ The king replied to him, "Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him; and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood which Jo'ab shed without cause.

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:2:36 @ Then the king sent and summoned Shim'e-i, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and do not go forth from there to any place whatever.

rsv@1Kings:2:38 @ And Shim'e-i said to the king, "What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." So Shim'e-i dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

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:2:41 @ And when Solomon was told that Shim'e-i had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned,

rsv@1Kings:2:42 @ the king sent and summoned Shim'e-i, and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and solemnly admonish you, saying, `Know for certain that on the day you go forth and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, `What you say is good; I obey.'

rsv@1Kings:2:43 @ Why then have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the commandment with which I charged you?"

rsv@1Kings:2:44 @ The king also said to Shim'e-i, "You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to David my father; so the LORD will bring back your evil upon your own head.

rsv@1Kings:3:1 @ Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:3:4 @ And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.

rsv@1Kings:3:5 @ At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."

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:3:7 @ And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

rsv@1Kings:3:9 @ Give thy servant therefore an understanding mind to govern thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to govern this thy great people?"

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:3:12 @ behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.

rsv@1Kings:3:15 @ And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

rsv@1Kings:3:16 @ Then two harlots came to the king, and stood before him.

rsv@1Kings:3:17 @ The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

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:3:21 @ When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I looked at it closely in the morning, behold, it was not the child that I had borne."

rsv@1Kings:3:25 @ And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."

rsv@1Kings:3:26 @ Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means slay it." But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it."

rsv@1Kings:3:27 @ Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means slay it; she is its mother."

rsv@1Kings:3:28 @ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him, to render justice.

rsv@1Kings:4:7 @ Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each man had to make provision for one month in the year.

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:4:21 @ 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:4:24 @ For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphra'tes from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphra'tes; and he had peace on all sides round about him.

rsv@1Kings:4:25 @ And Judah and Israel dwelt in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:4:27 @ And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

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:4:33 @ 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:5:1 @ Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.

rsv@1Kings:5:2 @ And Solomon sent word to Hiram,

rsv@1Kings:5:5 @ And so I purpose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, `Your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.'

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:5:11 @ while Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty thousand cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

rsv@1Kings:5:14 @ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays; they would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoni'ram was in charge of the levy.

rsv@1Kings:5:15 @ Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,

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:5:18 @ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:1 @ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:6:3 @ The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:6 @ The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:7 @ When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry; so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple, while it was being built.

rsv@1Kings:6:8 @ 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:6:10 @ He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.

rsv@1Kings:6:11 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,

rsv@1Kings:6:12 @ "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

rsv@1Kings:6:15 @ He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

rsv@1Kings:6:16 @ He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.

rsv@1Kings:6:18 @ The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.

rsv@1Kings:6:19 @ The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:6:22 @ And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

rsv@1Kings:6:24 @ Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

rsv@1Kings:6:27 @ He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; and the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:31 @ For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts formed a pentagon.

rsv@1Kings:6:33 @ So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,

rsv@1Kings:6:36 @ He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and one course of cedar beams.

rsv@1Kings:6:38 @ And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.

rsv@1Kings:7:7 @ And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment; it was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.

rsv@1Kings:7:8 @ His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.

rsv@1Kings:7:9 @ 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:7:14 @ He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naph'tali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill, for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon, and did all his work.

rsv@1Kings:7:16 @ He also made two capitals of molten bronze, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

rsv@1Kings:7:17 @ Then he made two nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals upon the tops of the pillars; a net for the one capital, and a net for the other capital.

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:7:22 @ And upon the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.

rsv@1Kings:7:23 @ Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

rsv@1Kings:7:25 @ 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:7:35 @ And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.

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:7:41 @ the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;

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:7:49 @ the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

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:8:2 @ And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Eth'anim, which is the seventh month.

rsv@1Kings:8:3 @ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

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:8:8 @ 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:8:11 @ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:13 @ I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever."

rsv@1Kings:8:14 @ 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:8:17 @ 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@1Kings:8:18 @ 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@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:8:23 @ and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to thy servants who walk before thee with all their heart;

rsv@1Kings:8:24 @ 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@1Kings:8:25 @ 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 before me as you have walked before me.'

rsv@1Kings:8:26 @ Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David my father.

rsv@1Kings:8:28 @ 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 this day;

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:8:33 @ "When thy people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, if they turn again to thee, and acknowledge thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house;

rsv@1Kings:8:34 @ 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:8:35 @ "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@1Kings:8:36 @ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

rsv@1Kings:8:38 @ whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house;

rsv@1Kings:8:39 @ 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:8:42 @ (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:8:44 @ "If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shalt send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,

rsv@1Kings:8:46 @ "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:8:47 @ yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors, saying, `We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly';

rsv@1Kings:8:48 @ 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:8:52 @ 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:8:54 @ Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven;

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:8:61 @ Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day."

rsv@1Kings:8:63 @ Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:8:64 @ The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

rsv@1Kings:8:65 @ So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.

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:9:2 @ the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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:9:8 @ And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this 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:9:14 @ Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

rsv@1Kings:9:15 @ And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megid'do and Gezer

rsv@1Kings:9:16 @ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife;

rsv@1Kings:9:19 @ and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

rsv@1Kings:9:21 @ their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly--these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.

rsv@1Kings:9:24 @ But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

rsv@1Kings: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:9:27 @ And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon;

rsv@1Kings:9:28 @ and they went to Ophir, and brought from there gold, to the amount of four hundred and twenty talents; and they brought it to King Solomon.

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:10:6 @ 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@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:10:10 @ 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:10:14 @ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

rsv@1Kings:10:16 @ King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

rsv@1Kings:10:17 @ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

rsv@1Kings:10:20 @ while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.

rsv@1Kings:10:22 @ 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:10:24 @ And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.

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:10:27 @ And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.

rsv@1Kings: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:11:4 @ 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:11:8 @ And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

rsv@1Kings:11:9 @ And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

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:11:13 @ However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."

rsv@1Kings:11:15 @ For when David was in Edom, and Jo'ab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he slew every male in Edom

rsv@1Kings:11:17 @ but Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain E'domites of his father's servants, Hadad being yet a little child.

rsv@1Kings:11:18 @ They set out from Mid'ian and came to Paran, and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and assigned him an allowance of food, and gave him land.

rsv@1Kings:11:21 @ But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Jo'ab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country."

rsv@1Kings:11:22 @ But Pharaoh said to him, "What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?" And he said to him, "Only let me go."

rsv@1Kings:11:23 @ God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eli'ada, who had fled from his master Hadade'zer king of Zobah.

rsv@1Kings:11:24 @ And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the slaughter by David; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and made him king in Damascus.

rsv@1Kings:11:30 @ 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:11:33 @ 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:11:35 @ but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, ten tribes.

rsv@1Kings:11:36 @ Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.

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:11:40 @ Solomon sought therefore to kill Jerobo'am; but Jerobo'am arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:12:1 @ Rehobo'am went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

rsv@1Kings:12:3 @ And they sent and called him; and Jerobo'am and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehobo'am,

rsv@1Kings:12:5 @ He said to them, "Depart for three days, then come again to me." So the people went away.

rsv@1Kings:12:6 @ 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@1Kings:12:7 @ And they said to him, "If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants for ever."

rsv@1Kings:12:8 @ 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@1Kings:12:9 @ And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, `Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us'?"

rsv@1Kings:12:10 @ And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, `Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us'; thus shall you say to them, `My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

rsv@1Kings:12:11 @ 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@1Kings:12:12 @ 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@1Kings:12:14 @ he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."

rsv@1Kings:12:15 @ So the king did not hearken to the people; for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfil his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite to Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.

rsv@1Kings:12:16 @ And when all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

rsv@1Kings:12:18 @ Then King Rehobo'am sent Ador'am, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehobo'am made haste to mount his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

rsv@1Kings:12:19 @ So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

rsv@1Kings:12:20 @ And when all Israel heard that Jerobo'am had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

rsv@1Kings:12:21 @ When Rehobo'am came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehobo'am the son of Solomon.

rsv@1Kings:12:22 @ But the word of God came to Shemai'ah the man of God:

rsv@1Kings:12:23 @ "Say to Rehobo'am the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,

rsv@1Kings:12:24 @ `Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your kinsmen the people of Israel. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they hearkened to the word of the LORD, and went home again, according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:12:26 @ And Jerobo'am said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David;

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:12:30 @ And this thing became a sin, for the people went to the one at Bethel and to the other as far as Daniel.

rsv@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jerobo'am appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices upon the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

rsv@1Kings:12:33 @ He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.

rsv@1Kings:13:1 @ And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jerobo'am was standing by the altar to burn incense.

rsv@1Kings:13:2 @ And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: `Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josi'ah by name; and he shall sacrifice upon you the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned upon you.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:3 @ 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:13:4 @ And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jerobo'am stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Lay hold of him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.

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:13:8 @ And the man of God said to the king, "If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place;

rsv@1Kings:13:10 @ So he went another way, and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.

rsv@1Kings:13:11 @ Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words also which he had spoken to the king, they told to their father.

rsv@1Kings:13:12 @ And their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons showed him the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone.

rsv@1Kings:13:13 @ And he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." So they saddled the ass for him and he mounted it.

rsv@1Kings:13:14 @ And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."

rsv@1Kings:13:15 @ Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread."

rsv@1Kings:13:17 @ for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, `You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:18 @ And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, `Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him.

rsv@1Kings:13:20 @ And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back;

rsv@1Kings:13:21 @ and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, `Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,

rsv@1Kings:13:22 @ but have come back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water"; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:24 @ 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:13:25 @ And behold, men passed by, and saw the body thrown in the road, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

rsv@1Kings:13:26 @ And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God, who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word which the LORD spoke to him."

rsv@1Kings:13:27 @ And he said to his sons, "Saddle the ass for me." And they saddled it.

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:13:29 @ And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

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:14:2 @ And Jerobo'am said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it be not known that you are the wife of Jerobo'am, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahi'jah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

rsv@1Kings:14:3 @ 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:14:5 @ And the LORD said to Ahi'jah, "Behold, the wife of Jerobo'am is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her." When she came, she pretended to be another woman.

rsv@1Kings:14:6 @ But when Ahi'jah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jerobo'am; why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with heavy tidings for you.

rsv@1Kings:14:8 @ 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:14:12 @ Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.

rsv@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jerobo'am shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jerobo'am.

rsv@1Kings:14:14 @ Moreover the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jerobo'am today. And henceforth

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:14:16 @ And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jerobo'am, which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin."

rsv@1Kings:14:17 @ Then Jerobo'am's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

rsv@1Kings:14:18 @ And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahi'jah the prophet.

rsv@1Kings:14:21 @ Now Rehobo'am the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehobo'am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonitess.

rsv@1Kings:14:22 @ And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

rsv@1Kings:14:24 @ 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:14:27 @ and King Rehobo'am made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

rsv@1Kings:14:28 @ And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them and brought them back to the guardroom.

rsv@1Kings:15:1 @ Now in the eighteenth year of King Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, Abi'jam began to reign over Judah.

rsv@1Kings:15:3 @ And he walked in all the sins which his father did before him; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

rsv@1Kings:15:9 @ In the twentieth year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Asa began to reign over Judah,

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:15:17 @ Ba'asha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

rsv@1Kings:15:18 @ 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:15:21 @ And when Ba'asha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he dwelt in Tirzah.

rsv@1Kings:15:22 @ Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Ba'asha had been building; and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.

rsv@1Kings:15:25 @ Nadab the son of Jerobo'am began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.

rsv@1Kings:15:26 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.

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:15:30 @ it was for the sins of Jerobo'am which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:15:33 @ In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.

rsv@1Kings:15:34 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jerobo'am and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.

rsv@1Kings:16:1 @ And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hana'ni against Ba'asha, saying,

rsv@1Kings:16:2 @ "Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jerobo'am, and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

rsv@1Kings:16:4 @ 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:16:7 @ 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:16:8 @ In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Ba'asha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.

rsv@1Kings:16:11 @ When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he killed all the house of Ba'asha; he did not leave him a single male of his kinsmen or his friends.

rsv@1Kings:16:12 @ 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:16:13 @ for all the sins of Ba'asha and the sins of Elah his son which they sinned, and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

rsv@1Kings:16:15 @ 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:16:18 @ And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house, and burned the king's house over him with fire, and died,

rsv@1Kings:16:19 @ because of his sins which he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jerobo'am, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.

rsv@1Kings:16:21 @ Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts; half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.

rsv@1Kings:16:23 @ In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah.

rsv@1Kings:16:26 @ For he walked in all the way of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and in the sins which he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

rsv@1Kings:16:29 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Sama'ria twenty-two years.

rsv@1Kings:16:31 @ And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, he took for wife Jez'ebel the daughter of Ethba'al king of the Sido'nians, and went and served Ba'al, and worshiped him.

rsv@1Kings:16:33 @ And Ahab made an Ashe'rah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

rsv@1Kings: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:17:2 @ And the word of the LORD came to him,

rsv@1Kings:17:4 @ You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."

rsv@1Kings:17:5 @ So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.

rsv@1Kings:17:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to him,

rsv@1Kings:17:9 @ "Arise, go to Zar'ephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you."

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:17:11 @ And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

rsv@1Kings:17:13 @ And Eli'jah said to her, "Fear not; go and do as you have said; but first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make for yourself and your son.

rsv@1Kings:17:16 @ The jar of meal was not spent, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by Eli'jah.

rsv@1Kings:17:18 @ And she said to Eli'jah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!"

rsv@1Kings:17:19 @ And he said to her, "Give me your son." And he took him from her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he lodged, and laid him upon his own bed.

rsv@1Kings:17:20 @ And he cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, hast thou brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?"

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:17:22 @ And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Eli'jah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

rsv@1Kings:17:23 @ And Eli'jah took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Eli'jah said, "See, your son lives."

rsv@1Kings:17:24 @ And the woman said to Eli'jah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."

rsv@1Kings:18:1 @ After many days the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth."

rsv@1Kings:18:2 @ So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:18:4 @ and when Jez'ebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadi'ah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

rsv@1Kings:18:5 @ And Ahab said to Obadi'ah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals."

rsv@1Kings:18:6 @ So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadi'ah went in another direction by himself.

rsv@1Kings:18:9 @ And he said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

rsv@1Kings:18:10 @ 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:18:16 @ So Obadi'ah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Eli'jah.

rsv@1Kings:18:17 @ When Ahab saw Eli'jah, Ahab said to him, "Is it you, you troubler of Israel?"

rsv@1Kings:18:19 @ Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Ba'al and the four hundred prophets of Ashe'rah, who eat at Jez'ebel's table."

rsv@1Kings:18:20 @ So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel, and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.

rsv@1Kings:18:21 @ And Eli'jah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Ba'al, then follow him." And the people did not answer him a word.

rsv@1Kings:18:22 @ Then Eli'jah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Ba'al's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

rsv@1Kings:18:23 @ 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:18:26 @ And they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Ba'al from morning until noon, saying, "O Ba'al, answer us!" But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped about the altar which they had made.

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:18:30 @ Then Eli'jah said to all the people, "Come near to me"; and all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down;

rsv@1Kings:18:31 @ Eli'jah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, "Israel shall be your name";

rsv@1Kings:18:32 @ 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:18:38 @ 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:18:40 @ And Eli'jah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Ba'al; let not one of them escape." And they seized them; and Eli'jah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

rsv@1Kings:18:41 @ And Eli'jah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of the rushing of rain."

rsv@1Kings:18:42 @ So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Eli'jah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.

rsv@1Kings:18:43 @ 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:18:45 @ And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

rsv@1Kings:18:46 @ And the hand of the LORD was on Eli'jah; and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

rsv@1Kings:19:1 @ Ahab told Jez'ebel all that Eli'jah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

rsv@1Kings:19:2 @ Then Jez'ebel sent a messenger to Eli'jah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow."

rsv@1Kings:19:3 @ Then he was afraid, and he arose and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

rsv@1Kings:19:4 @ 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:19:5 @ And he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."

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:19:7 @ And the angel of the LORD came again a second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, else the journey will be too great for you."

rsv@1Kings:19:8 @ And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

rsv@1Kings:19:9 @ And there he came to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Eli'jah?"

rsv@1Kings:19:10 @ He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

rsv@1Kings:19:13 @ And when Eli'jah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Eli'jah?"

rsv@1Kings:19:14 @ He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

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:19:16 @ and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel; and Eli'sha the son of Shaphat of A'bel-meho'lah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.

rsv@1Kings:19:18 @ 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:19:20 @ And he left the oxen, and ran after Eli'jah, and said, "Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?"

rsv@1Kings:19:21 @ And he returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Eli'jah, and ministered to him.

rsv@1Kings:20:1 @ 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:20:5 @ 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:20:8 @ And all the elders and all the people said to him, "Do not heed or consent."

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:20:10 @ Ben-ha'dad sent to him and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Sama'ria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me."

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:20:13 @ And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am the LORD."

rsv@1Kings:20:17 @ The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-ha'dad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, "Men are coming out from Sama'ria."

rsv@1Kings:20:22 @ Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, "Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do; for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you."

rsv@1Kings:20:23 @ And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

rsv@1Kings:20:25 @ and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.

rsv@1Kings:20:26 @ In the spring Ben-ha'dad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

rsv@1Kings:20:28 @ And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, `Because the Syrians have said, "The LORD is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'"

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:20:35 @ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, "Strike me, I pray." But the man refused to strike him.

rsv@1Kings:20:36 @ Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall kill you." And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and killed him.

rsv@1Kings:20:39 @ And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me, and said, `Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'

rsv@1Kings:20:40 @ And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it."

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:21:2 @ And after this Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money."

rsv@1Kings:21:3 @ But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers."

rsv@1Kings:21:4 @ And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food.

rsv@1Kings:21:5 @ But Jez'ebel his wife came to him, and said to him, "Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?"

rsv@1Kings:21:6 @ And he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, `Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it'; and he answered, `I will not give you my vineyard.'"

rsv@1Kings:21:7 @ And Jez'ebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

rsv@1Kings:21:8 @ So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who dwelt with Naboth in his city.

rsv@1Kings:21:10 @ and set two base fellows opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, `You have cursed God and the king.' Then take him out, and stone him to death."

rsv@1Kings:21:11 @ And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jez'ebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters which she had sent to them,

rsv@1Kings:21:13 @ And the two base fellows came in and sat opposite him; and the base fellows brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death with stones.

rsv@1Kings:21:14 @ Then they sent to Jez'ebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned; he is dead."

rsv@1Kings:21:15 @ As soon as Jez'ebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jez'ebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead."

rsv@1Kings:21:16 @ And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

rsv@1Kings:21:17 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah the Tishbite, saying,

rsv@1Kings:21:18 @ "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Sama'ria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.

rsv@1Kings:21:19 @ 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:21:20 @ Ahab said to Eli'jah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.

rsv@1Kings:21:22 @ and I will make your house like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, and like the house of Ba'asha the son of Ahi'jah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.

rsv@1Kings:21:24 @ Any one belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one of his who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat."

rsv@1Kings:21:25 @ (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jez'ebel his wife incited.

rsv@1Kings:21:28 @ And the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah the Tishbite, saying,

rsv@1Kings:22:2 @ But in the third year Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:22:3 @ And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"

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:22:5 @ And Jehosh'aphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD."

rsv@1Kings:22:6 @ Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I forbear?" And they said, "Go up; for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."

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:22:12 @ 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:22:15 @ And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micai'ah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" And he answered him, "Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king."

rsv@1Kings:22:16 @ 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:22:21 @ Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, `I will entice him.'

rsv@1Kings:22:22 @ And the LORD said to him, `By what means?' 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@1Kings:22:24 @ Then Zedeki'ah the son of Chena'anah came near and struck Micai'ah on the cheek, and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?"

rsv@1Kings:22:25 @ And Micai'ah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself."

rsv@1Kings:22:26 @ And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micai'ah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Jo'ash the king's son;

rsv@1Kings:22:29 @ So the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

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:22:32 @ And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehosh'aphat, they said, "It is surely the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him; and Jehosh'aphat cried out.

rsv@1Kings:22:34 @ But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

rsv@1Kings:22:35 @ And the battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died; and the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.

rsv@1Kings:22:36 @ And about sunset a cry went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!"

rsv@1Kings:22:37 @ So the king died, and was brought to Sama'ria; and they buried the king in Sama'ria.

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:22:41 @ Jehosh'aphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

rsv@1Kings:22:42 @ Jehosh'aphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azu'bah the daughter of Shilhi.

rsv@1Kings:22:48 @ Jehosh'aphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold; but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at E'zion-ge'ber.

rsv@1Kings:22:49 @ Then Ahazi'ah the son of Ahab said to Jehosh'aphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehosh'aphat was not willing.

rsv@1Kings:22:51 @ Ahazi'ah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria in the seventeenth year of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

rsv@1Kings:22:52 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

rsv@1Kings:22:53 @ He served Ba'al and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done.

rsv@2Kings:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Sama'ria, and say to them, `Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron?'

rsv@2Kings:1:4 @ Now therefore thus says the LORD, `You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but you shall surely die.'" So Eli'jah went.

rsv@2Kings:1:5 @ The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?"

rsv@2Kings:1:6 @ And they said to him, "There came a man to meet us, and said to us, `Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone, but shall surely die.'"

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:1:9 @ Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Eli'jah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "O man of God, the king says, `Come down.'"

rsv@2Kings:1:11 @ Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he went up and said to him, "O man of God, this is the king's order, `Come down quickly!'"

rsv@2Kings:1:15 @ Then the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So he arose and went down with him to the king,

rsv@2Kings:1:16 @ 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:1:17 @ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Eli'jah had spoken. Jeho'ram, his brother, became king in his stead in the second year of Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat, king of Judah, because Ahazi'ah had no son.

rsv@2Kings:2:1 @ Now when the LORD was about to take Eli'jah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Eli'jah and Eli'sha were on their way from Gilgal.

rsv@2Kings:2:2 @ And Eli'jah said to Eli'sha, "Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Eli'sha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

rsv@2Kings:2:3 @ 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:2:7 @ Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went, and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.

rsv@2Kings:2:8 @ Then Eli'jah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.

rsv@2Kings:2:9 @ When they had crossed, Eli'jah said to Eli'sha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." And Eli'sha said, "I pray you, let me inherit a double share of your spirit."

rsv@2Kings:2:11 @ And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Eli'jah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

rsv@2Kings:2:12 @ 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:2:13 @ And he took up the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

rsv@2Kings:2:14 @ Then he took the mantle of Eli'jah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, saying, "Where is the LORD, the God of Eli'jah?" And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other; and Eli'sha went over.

rsv@2Kings:2:15 @ Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him over against them, they said, "The spirit of Eli'jah rests on Eli'sha." And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.

rsv@2Kings:2:16 @ And they said to him, "Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; pray, let them go, and seek your master; it may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley." And he said, "You shall not send."

rsv@2Kings:2:18 @ And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho, and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, Do not go?"

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:2:20 @ He said, "Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.

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:2:23 @ He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"

rsv@2Kings:2:24 @ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

rsv@2Kings:2:25 @ From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and thence he returned to Sama'ria.

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:3:9 @ So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the beasts which followed them.

rsv@2Kings:3:10 @ Then the king of Israel said, "Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."

rsv@2Kings:3:12 @ And Jehosh'aphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

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:3:18 @ 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:3:23 @ And they said, "This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and slain one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!"

rsv@2Kings:3:24 @ But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and attacked the Moabites, till they fled before them; and they went forward, slaughtering the Moabites as they went.

rsv@2Kings:3:25 @ And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone, until it was covered; they stopped every spring of water, and felled all the good trees; till only its stones were left in Kir-har'eseth, and the slingers surrounded and conquered it.

rsv@2Kings:3:26 @ When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom; but they could not.

rsv@2Kings:3:27 @ Then he took his eldest son who was to reign in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

rsv@2Kings:4:1 @ 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:4:2 @ And Eli'sha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil."

rsv@2Kings:4:3 @ 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:4:8 @ One day Eli'sha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.

rsv@2Kings:4:9 @ And she said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way.

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:4:12 @ And he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Call this Shu'nammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.

rsv@2Kings:4:13 @ And he said to him, "Say now to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

rsv@2Kings:4:14 @ And he said, "What then is to be done for her?" Geha'zi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."

rsv@2Kings:4:15 @ He said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

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:4:17 @ But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Eli'sha had said to her.

rsv@2Kings:4:18 @ When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.

rsv@2Kings:4:19 @ And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

rsv@2Kings:4:20 @ And when he had lifted him, and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.

rsv@2Kings:4:22 @ 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:4:23 @ And he said, "Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." She said, "It will be well."

rsv@2Kings:4:24 @ Then she saddled the ass, and she said to her servant, "Urge the beast on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."

rsv@2Kings:4:25 @ So she set out, and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Look, yonder is the Shu'nammite;

rsv@2Kings:4:26 @ run at once to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?" And she answered, "It is well."

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:4:31 @ Geha'zi went on ahead and laid the staff upon the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, "The child has not awaked."

rsv@2Kings:4:32 @ When Eli'sha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.

rsv@2Kings:4:33 @ So he went in and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

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:4:36 @ Then he summoned Geha'zi and said, "Call this Shu'nammite." So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, "Take up your son."

rsv@2Kings:4:37 @ She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground; then she took up her son and went out.

rsv@2Kings:4:38 @ And Eli'sha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets."

rsv@2Kings:4:39 @ One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were.

rsv@2Kings:4:40 @ And they poured out for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the pottage, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

rsv@2Kings:4:41 @ He said, "Then bring meal." And he threw it into the pot, and said, "Pour out for the men, that they may eat." And there was no harm in the pot.

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:4:43 @ But his servant said, "How am I to set this before a hundred men?" So he repeated, "Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, `They shall eat and have some left.'"

rsv@2Kings:4:44 @ So he set it before them. And they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:5:1 @ Na'aman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

rsv@2Kings:5:3 @ 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:5:4 @ So Na'aman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the maiden from the land of Israel."

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:5:10 @ 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:5:11 @ But Na'aman was angry, and went away, saying, "Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and cure the leper.

rsv@2Kings:5:13 @ But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, `Wash, and 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:5:19 @ He said to him, "Go in peace." But when Na'aman had gone from him a short distance,

rsv@2Kings:5:21 @ So Geha'zi followed Na'aman. And when Na'aman saw some one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

rsv@2Kings:5:22 @ And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, `There have just now come to me from the hill country of E'phraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; pray, give them a talent of silver and two festal garments.'"

rsv@2Kings:5:23 @ 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:5:24 @ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.

rsv@2Kings:5:25 @ He went in, and stood before his master, and Eli'sha said to him, "Where have you been, Geha'zi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere."

rsv@2Kings:5:26 @ But he said to him, "Did I not go with you in spirit when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?

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:6:1 @ Now the sons of the prophets said to Eli'sha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.

rsv@2Kings:6:2 @ Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there." And he answered, "Go."

rsv@2Kings:6:3 @ Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."

rsv@2Kings:6:4 @ So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

rsv@2Kings:6:5 @ But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed."

rsv@2Kings:6:7 @ And he said, "Take it up." So he reached out his hand and took it.

rsv@2Kings:6:8 @ Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp."

rsv@2Kings:6:9 @ But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there."

rsv@2Kings:6:10 @ And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.

rsv@2Kings:6:11 @ And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?"

rsv@2Kings:6:13 @ And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan."

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:6:19 @ And Eli'sha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:21 @ When the king of Israel saw them he said to Eli'sha, "My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?"

rsv@2Kings:6:22 @ He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."

rsv@2Kings:6:23 @ So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:6:26 @ Now as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"

rsv@2Kings:6:28 @ And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, `Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

rsv@2Kings:6:29 @ So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, `Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."

rsv@2Kings:6:31 @ and he said, "May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Eli'sha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."

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:6:33 @ And while he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"

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:7:3 @ Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate; and they said to one another, "Why do we sit here till we die?

rsv@2Kings:7:4 @ If we say, `Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians; if they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."

rsv@2Kings:7:5 @ So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; but when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.

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:7:8 @ And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back, and entered another tent, and carried off things from it, and went and hid them.

rsv@2Kings:7:9 @ Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news; if we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household."

rsv@2Kings:7:10 @ So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were."

rsv@2Kings:7:11 @ Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.

rsv@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king rose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have prepared against us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, `When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"

rsv@2Kings:7:14 @ So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."

rsv@2Kings:7:15 @ So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

rsv@2Kings:7:16 @ 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:7:17 @ Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; and the people trod upon him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.

rsv@2Kings:7:18 @ For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Sama'ria,"

rsv@2Kings:7:20 @ And so it happened to him, for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.

rsv@2Kings:8:1 @ 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:8:7 @ Now Eli'sha came to Damascus. Ben-ha'dad the king of Syria was sick; and when it was told him, "The man of God has come here,"

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:8:10 @ And Eli'sha said to him, "Go, say to him, `You shall certainly recover'; but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die."

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:8:13 @ And Haz'ael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Eli'sha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria."

rsv@2Kings:8:14 @ Then he departed from Eli'sha, and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Eli'sha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover."

rsv@2Kings:8:15 @ But on the morrow he took the coverlet and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Haz'ael became king in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:8:16 @ In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jeho'ram the son of Jehosh'aphat, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:8:19 @ 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:8:22 @ So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

rsv@2Kings:8:25 @ In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:8:26 @ Ahazi'ah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athali'ah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:8:27 @ He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.

rsv@2Kings:8:28 @ He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Haz'ael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, where the Syrians wounded Joram.

rsv@2Kings:8:29 @ And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Haz'ael king of Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

rsv@2Kings:9:1 @ Then Eli'sha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Gird up your loins, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

rsv@2Kings:9:2 @ And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehosh'aphat, son of Nimshi; and go in and bid him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.

rsv@2Kings:9:4 @ So the young man, the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

rsv@2Kings:9:5 @ And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council; and he said, "I have an errand to you, O commander." And Jehu said, "To which of us all?" And he said, "To you, O commander."

rsv@2Kings:9:6 @ So he arose, and went into the house; and the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.

rsv@2Kings:9:10 @ And the dogs shall eat Jez'ebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her." Then he opened the door, and fled.

rsv@2Kings:9:11 @ When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the fellow and his talk."

rsv@2Kings:9:12 @ And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, `Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"

rsv@2Kings:9:13 @ Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, "Jehu is king."

rsv@2Kings:9:15 @ but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Haz'ael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."

rsv@2Kings:9:16 @ Then Jehu mounted his chariot, and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahazi'ah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.

rsv@2Kings:9:17 @ Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." And Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, `Is it peace?'"

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:9:19 @ Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them, and said, "Thus the king has said, `Is it peace?'" And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn round and ride behind me."

rsv@2Kings:9:21 @ Joram said, "Make ready." And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahazi'ah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

rsv@2Kings:9:23 @ Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahazi'ah, "Treachery, O Ahazi'ah!"

rsv@2Kings:9:25 @ Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD uttered this oracle against him:

rsv@2Kings:9:27 @ When Ahazi'ah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, and said, "Shoot him also"; and they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megid'do, and died there.

rsv@2Kings:9:28 @ His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.

rsv@2Kings:9:29 @ In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahazi'ah began to reign over Judah.

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:9:32 @ And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

rsv@2Kings:9:34 @ Then he went in and ate and drank; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."

rsv@2Kings:9:35 @ But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

rsv@2Kings:9:36 @ When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Eli'jah the Tishbite, `In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jez'ebel;

rsv@2Kings:9:37 @ and the corpse of Jez'ebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jez'ebel.'"

rsv@2Kings:10:1 @ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Sama'ria. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Sama'ria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,

rsv@2Kings:10:2 @ "Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,

rsv@2Kings:10:5 @ So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do all that you bid us. We will not make any one king; do whatever is good in your eyes."

rsv@2Kings:10:6 @ Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time." Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.

rsv@2Kings:10:7 @ And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.

rsv@2Kings:10:8 @ When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning."

rsv@2Kings:10:9 @ Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood, and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master, and slew him; but who struck down all these?

rsv@2Kings:10:10 @ Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Eli'jah."

rsv@2Kings:10:12 @ Then he set out and went to Sama'ria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

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:10:14 @ He said, "Take them alive." And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.

rsv@2Kings:10:15 @ And when he departed from there, he met Jehon'adab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehon'adab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.

rsv@2Kings:10:17 @ And when he came to Sama'ria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Sama'ria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke to Eli'jah.

rsv@2Kings:10:18 @ Then Jehu assembled all the people, and said to them, "Ahab served Ba'al a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

rsv@2Kings:10:19 @ 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:10:21 @ And Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Ba'al came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Ba'al, and the house of Ba'al was filled from one end to the other.

rsv@2Kings:10:22 @ 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:10:23 @ Then Jehu went into the house of Ba'al with Jehon'adab the son of Rechab; and he said to the worshipers of Ba'al, "Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Ba'al."

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:10:27 @ And they demolished the pillar of Ba'al, and demolished the house of Ba'al, and made it a latrine to this day.

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:10:31 @ But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jerobo'am, which he made Israel to sin.

rsv@2Kings:10:32 @ In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Haz'ael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:

rsv@2Kings:11:2 @ But Jehosh'eba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahazi'ah, took Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus she hid him from Athali'ah, so that he was not slain;

rsv@2Kings:11:4 @ But in the seventh year Jehoi'ada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king's son.

rsv@2Kings:11:8 @ 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:11:11 @ and the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.

rsv@2Kings:11:13 @ When Athali'ah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people;

rsv@2Kings:11:14 @ and when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athali'ah rent her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

rsv@2Kings:11:16 @ 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:11:21 @ Jeho'ash was seven years old when he began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:12:1 @ In the seventh year of Jehu Jeho'ash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zib'iah of Beer-sheba.

rsv@2Kings:12:3 @ 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:12:7 @ 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:12:9 @ 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:12:11 @ Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the LORD,

rsv@2Kings:12:12 @ and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house.

rsv@2Kings:12:13 @ 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:12:14 @ for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.

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:12:17 @ At that time Haz'ael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. But when Haz'ael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,

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:12:20 @ 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:13:1 @ In the twenty-third year of Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, king of Judah, Jeho'ahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned seventeen years.

rsv@2Kings:13:2 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.

rsv@2Kings:13:3 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Haz'ael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-ha'dad the son of Haz'ael.

rsv@2Kings:13:4 @ Then Jeho'ahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

rsv@2Kings:13:6 @ Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jerobo'am, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Ashe'rah also remained in Sama'ria.)

rsv@2Kings:13:7 @ For there was not left to Jeho'ahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

rsv@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty-seventh year of Jo'ash king of Judah Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned sixteen years.

rsv@2Kings:13:11 @ He also did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.

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:13:15 @ And Eli'sha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows"; so he took a bow and arrows.

rsv@2Kings:13:16 @ Then he said to the king of Israel, "Draw the bow"; and he drew it. And Eli'sha laid his hands upon the king's hands.

rsv@2Kings:13:17 @ And he said, "Open the window eastward"; and he opened it. Then Eli'sha said, "Shoot"; and he shot. And he said, "The LORD's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them."

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:13:20 @ 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:13:23 @ But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them; nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

rsv@2Kings:13:25 @ Then Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz took again from Ben-ha'dad the son of Haz'ael the cities which he had taken from Jeho'ahaz his father in war. Three times Jo'ash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:14:1 @ In the second year of Jo'ash the son of Jo'ahaz, king of Israel, Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:14:2 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeho-ad'din of Jerusalem.

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:14:9 @ And Jeho'ash king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, `Give your daughter to my son for a wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

rsv@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amazi'ah would not listen. So Jeho'ash king of Israel went up, and he and Amazi'ah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-she'mesh, which belongs to Judah.

rsv@2Kings:14:12 @ And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

rsv@2Kings:14:13 @ And Jeho'ash king of Israel captured Amazi'ah king of Judah, the son of Jeho'ash, son of Ahazi'ah, at Beth-she'mesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the E'phraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

rsv@2Kings:14:14 @ 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:14:19 @ And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

rsv@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took Azari'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.

rsv@2Kings:14:22 @ He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

rsv@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth year of Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, began to reign in Sama'ria, and he reigned forty-one years.

rsv@2Kings:14:24 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

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:14:26 @ For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.

rsv@2Kings:14:28 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

rsv@2Kings:15:1 @ In the twenty-seventh year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Azari'ah the son of Amazi'ah, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:15:2 @ He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoli'ah of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:15:3 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amazi'ah had done.

rsv@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.

rsv@2Kings:15:9 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

rsv@2Kings:15:12 @ (This was the promise of the LORD which he gave to Jehu, "Your sons shall sit upon the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." And so it came to pass.)

rsv@2Kings:15:13 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzzi'ah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:15:14 @ Then Men'ahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Sama'ria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Sama'ria and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:16 @ At that time Men'ahem sacked Tappuah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, therefore he sacked it, and he ripped up all the women in it who were with child.

rsv@2Kings:15:17 @ In the thirty-ninth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Men'ahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:15:18 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

rsv@2Kings:15:19 @ Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Men'ahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power.

rsv@2Kings:15:20 @ Men'ahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and did not stay there in the land.

rsv@2Kings:15:23 @ In the fiftieth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Pekahi'ah the son of Men'ahem began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned two years.

rsv@2Kings:15:24 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not turn away from the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

rsv@2Kings:15:27 @ In the fifty-second year of Azari'ah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remali'ah began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and reigned twenty years.

rsv@2Kings:15:28 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

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:15:32 @ In the second year of Pekah the son of Remali'ah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:15:33 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'sha the daughter of Zadok.

rsv@2Kings:15:34 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done.

rsv@2Kings:15:37 @ In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah against Judah.

rsv@2Kings:16:1 @ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remali'ah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:16:2 @ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,

rsv@2Kings:16:3 @ 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:16:5 @ 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:16:9 @ And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus, and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.

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:16:12 @ And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar, and went up on it,

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:16:17 @ 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:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshe'a the son of Elah began to reign in Sama'ria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.

rsv@2Kings:17:4 @ 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:17:8 @ and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced.

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:17:11 @ 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:17:12 @ and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."

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:17:17 @ 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:17:19 @ Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

rsv@2Kings:17:20 @ 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:17:21 @ When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jerobo'am the son of Nebat king. And Jerobo'am drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.

rsv@2Kings:17:23 @ until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

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:17:31 @ 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:17:34 @ 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:17:40 @ However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

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:18:1 @ In the third year of Hoshe'a son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezeki'ah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.

rsv@2Kings:18:2 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechari'ah.

rsv@2Kings:18:3 @ 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:18:10 @ and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezeki'ah, which was the ninth year of Hoshe'a king of Israel, Sama'ria was taken.

rsv@2Kings:18:11 @ The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

rsv@2Kings:18:13 @ In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki'ah Sennach'erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

rsv@2Kings:18:14 @ And Hezeki'ah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezeki'ah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

rsv@2Kings:18:16 @ At that time Hezeki'ah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the doorposts which Hezeki'ah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

rsv@2Kings:18:17 @ And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab'saris, and the Rab'shakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezeki'ah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Fuller's Field.

rsv@2Kings:18:18 @ And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

rsv@2Kings:18:19 @ And the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Say to Hezeki'ah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?

rsv@2Kings:18:21 @ Behold, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

rsv@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:18:26 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, and Shebnah, and Jo'ah, said to the Rab'shakeh, "Pray, speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

rsv@2Kings:18:27 @ 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:18:28 @ Then the Rab'shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

rsv@2Kings:18:29 @ Thus says the king: `Do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.

rsv@2Kings:18:30 @ Do not let Hezeki'ah make you to rely on the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'

rsv@2Kings:18:31 @ Do not listen to Hezeki'ah; for thus says the king of Assyria: `Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;

rsv@2Kings:18:32 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezeki'ah when he misleads you by saying, The LORD will deliver us.

rsv@2Kings:18:37 @ 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:19:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rab'shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."

rsv@2Kings:19:5 @ When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,

rsv@2Kings:19:6 @ Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, `Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

rsv@2Kings:19:7 @ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'"

rsv@2Kings:19:9 @ And when the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has set out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezeki'ah, saying,

rsv@2Kings:19:10 @ "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: `Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

rsv@2Kings:19:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

rsv@2Kings:19:14 @ 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:19:20 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennach'erib king of Assyria I have heard.

rsv@2Kings:19:23 @ 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:19:26 @ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

rsv@2Kings:19:28 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

rsv@2Kings:19:32 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.

rsv@2Kings:19:33 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:19:34 @ For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."

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:20:1 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.'"

rsv@2Kings:20:2 @ Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,

rsv@2Kings:20:4 @ And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:

rsv@2Kings:20:5 @ "Turn back, and say to Hezeki'ah the prince of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:20:6 @ And I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake."

rsv@2Kings:20:8 @ And Hezeki'ah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"

rsv@2Kings:20:9 @ And Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?"

rsv@2Kings:20:10 @ And Hezeki'ah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps; rather let the shadow go back ten steps."

rsv@2Kings:20:11 @ And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which the sun had declined on the dial of Ahaz.

rsv@2Kings:20:12 @ At that time Mero'dach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah; for he heard that Hezeki'ah had been sick.

rsv@2Kings:20:13 @ And Hezeki'ah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezeki'ah did not show them.

rsv@2Kings:20:14 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezeki'ah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" And Hezeki'ah said, "They have come from a far country, from Babylon."

rsv@2Kings:20:15 @ He said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezeki'ah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."

rsv@2Kings:20:16 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezeki'ah, "Hear the word of the LORD:

rsv@2Kings:20:17 @ Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:20:18 @ And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

rsv@2Kings:20:19 @ Then said Hezeki'ah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?"

rsv@2Kings:20:20 @ The rest of the deeds of Hezeki'ah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

rsv@2Kings:21:1 @ Manas'seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Heph'zibah.

rsv@2Kings:21:2 @ 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:21:6 @ And he burned his son as an offering, and practiced soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

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:21:14 @ 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:21:15 @ because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day."

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:21:19 @ 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:21:26 @ And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza; and Josi'ah his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:22:1 @ Josi'ah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedi'dah the daughter of Adai'ah of Bozkath.

rsv@2Kings:22:2 @ 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:22:5 @ and let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD; and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house,

rsv@2Kings:22:6 @ that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, as well as for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

rsv@2Kings:22:7 @ 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:22:9 @ And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD."

rsv@2Kings:22:10 @ 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:22:13 @ "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."

rsv@2Kings:22:14 @ So Hilki'ah the priest, and Ahi'kam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asai'ah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they talked with her.

rsv@2Kings:22:15 @ And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: `Tell the man who sent you to me,

rsv@2Kings:22:17 @ Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.

rsv@2Kings:22:18 @ But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,

rsv@2Kings: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:23:1 @ Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.

rsv@2Kings:23:2 @ And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:23:3 @ 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:23:8 @ And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.

rsv@2Kings:23:9 @ However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

rsv@2Kings:23:10 @ And he defiled To'pheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.

rsv@2Kings:23:11 @ And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

rsv@2Kings:23:12 @ 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:23:15 @ Moreover the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and he broke in pieces its stones, crushing them to dust; also he burned the Ashe'rah.

rsv@2Kings:23:16 @ And as Josi'ah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

rsv@2Kings:23:17 @ Then he said, "What is yonder monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things which you have done against the altar at Bethel."

rsv@2Kings:23:19 @ And all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Sama'ria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger, Josi'ah removed; he did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.

rsv@2Kings:23:20 @ 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:23:21 @ And the king commanded all the people, "Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant."

rsv@2Kings:23:23 @ but in the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:23:25 @ 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:23:29 @ In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphra'tes. King Josi'ah went to meet him; and Pharaoh Neco slew him at Megid'do, when he saw him.

rsv@2Kings:23:30 @ And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megid'do, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jeho'ahaz the son of Josi'ah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

rsv@2Kings:23:31 @ Jeho'ahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamu'tal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

rsv@2Kings:23:32 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

rsv@2Kings:23:34 @ And Pharaoh Neco made Eli'akim the son of Josi'ah king in the place of Josi'ah his father, and changed his name to Jehoi'akim. But he took Jeho'ahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

rsv@2Kings:23:35 @ And Jehoi'akim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

rsv@2Kings:23:36 @ Jehoi'akim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebi'dah the daughter of Pedai'ah of Rumah.

rsv@2Kings:23:37 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

rsv@2Kings:24:2 @ And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chalde'ans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

rsv@2Kings:24:3 @ Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manas'seh, according to all that he had done,

rsv@2Kings:24:7 @ 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:24:9 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

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:24:15 @ 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:24:16 @ And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war.

rsv@2Kings:24:17 @ And the king of Babylon made Mattani'ah, Jehoi'achin's uncle, king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedeki'ah.

rsv@2Kings:24:19 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoi'akim had done.

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:25:1 @ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about.

rsv@2Kings:25:5 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

rsv@2Kings:25:6 @ Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence upon him.

rsv@2Kings:25:7 @ They slew the sons of Zedeki'ah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedeki'ah, and bound him in fetters, and took him to Babylon.

rsv@2Kings:25:8 @ In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month--which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnez'zar, king of Babylon--Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Kings:25:11 @ And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard carried into exile.

rsv@2Kings:25:12 @ 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:25:15 @ the firepans also, and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.

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:25:19 @ and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king's council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

rsv@2Kings:25:20 @ And Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

rsv@2Kings:25:21 @ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

rsv@2Kings:25:23 @ Now when all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedali'ah governor, they came with their men to Gedali'ah at Mizpah, namely, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, and Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah, and Serai'ah the son of Tanhu'meth the Netoph'athite, and Ja-azani'ah the son of the Ma-ac'athite.

rsv@2Kings:25:24 @ And Gedali'ah swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid because of the Chalde'an officials; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you."

rsv@2Kings:25:26 @ 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@2Kings:25:27 @ And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoi'achin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-mero'dach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoi'achin king of Judah from prison;

rsv@2Kings:25:28 @ and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:6 @ The sons of Gomer: Ash'kenaz, Diphath, and Togar'mah.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:10 @ Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:12 @ Pathru'sim, Caslu'him (whence came the Philis'tines), and Caph'torim.

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: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:2:9 @ The sons of Hezron, that were born to him: Jerah'meel, Ram, and Chelu'bai.

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:2:23 @ 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:2:35 @ So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave; and she bore him Attai.

rsv@1Chronicles:2:54 @ The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netoph'athites, At'roth-beth-jo'ab, and half of the Man'aha'thites, the Zorites.

rsv@1Chronicles:3:1 @ These are the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, by Ahin'o-am the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, by Ab'igail the Car'melitess,

rsv@1Chronicles:3:4 @ 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: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:4:22 @ 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:4:29 @ Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

rsv@1Chronicles:4:32 @ And their villages were Etam, A'in, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,

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:5:6 @ Be-er'ah his son, whom Til'gath-pilne'ser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chieftain of the Reubenites.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:9 @ He also dwelt to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphra'tes, because their cattle had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

rsv@1Chronicles:5:13 @ And their kinsmen according to their fathers' houses: Michael, Meshul'lam, Sheba, Jo'rai, Jacan, Zi'a, and Eber, seven.

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:5:20 @ 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:5:23 @ 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:5:26 @ 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:6:15 @ and Jehoz'adak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnez'zar.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:19 @ The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:34 @ son of Elka'nah, son of Jero'ham, son of Eli'el, son of To'ah,

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:6:49 @ 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:6:54 @ 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:6:61 @ 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:6:66 @ And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of E'phraim.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:71 @ To the Gershomites were given out of the half-tribe of Manas'seh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ash'taroth with its pasture lands;

rsv@1Chronicles:6:77 @ To the rest of the Merar'ites were allotted out of the tribe of Zeb'ulun: Rim'mono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands,

rsv@1Chronicles: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:7:4 @ 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:7:9 @ and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:11 @ All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:15 @ And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Ma'acah. And the name of the second was Zeloph'ehad; and Zeloph'ehad had daughters.

rsv@1Chronicles:7:21 @ 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:7:28 @ 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: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:8:12 @ 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:8:28 @ These were the heads of fathers' houses, according to their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

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:9:9 @ 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:9:16 @ 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:9:18 @ stationed hitherto in the king's gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:25 @ 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:9:28 @ 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:9:32 @ Also some of their kinsmen of the Ko'hathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:34 @ These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders, who lived in Jerusalem.

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:10:4 @ 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:10:6 @ Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together.

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:10:11 @ 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:11:10 @ 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:11:12 @ And next to him among the three mighty men was Elea'zar the son of Dodo, the Aho'hite.

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:11:17 @ 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:11:21 @ He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.

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:11:25 @ He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:30 @ Ma'harai of Netoph'ah, Heled the son of Ba'anah of Netoph'ah,

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:12:8 @ 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:12:15 @ 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:12:22 @ 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:12:29 @ 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:12:31 @ 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:12:38 @ 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: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:13:9 @ 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: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:14:3 @ And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David begot more sons and daughters.

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:14:14 @ 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:15:2 @ 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:15:12 @ and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:14 @ So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:15 @ And the Levites carried the ark of God upon their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:16 @ David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

rsv@1Chronicles:15:19 @ 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:15:28 @ 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:16:3 @ 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:16:16 @ 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:16:20 @ 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:16:25 @ For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.

rsv@1Chronicles:16:28 @ 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:16:33 @ 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:16:40 @ 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:17:10 @ from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:11 @ When your days are fulfilled to go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

rsv@1Chronicles:17:13 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son; I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,

rsv@1Chronicles:17:15 @ In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

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:17:25 @ 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:18:13 @ 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: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:19:12 @ 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:19:15 @ 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:19:17 @ 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:19:19 @ 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:20:6 @ 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: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:21:8 @ 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:21:15 @ 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:21:17 @ 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:21:21 @ 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:21:26 @ 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:21:30 @ 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:22:2 @ 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:22:13 @ 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:22:17 @ 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:23:3 @ The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was thirty-eight thousand men.

rsv@1Chronicles:23:5 @ four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments which I have made for praise."

rsv@1Chronicles:23:6 @ And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merar'i.

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:23:24 @ 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:23:28 @ "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:23:31 @ 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: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:24:7 @ 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:24:30 @ The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jer'imoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

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:25:5 @ 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:25:7 @ 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:25:9 @ 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:26:6 @ 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:26:12 @ 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:26:14 @ 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:26:21 @ 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:26:29 @ Of the Iz'harites, Chenani'ah and his sons were appointed to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

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:27:13 @ Tenth, for the tenth month, was Ma'harai of Netoph'ah, of the Ze'rahites; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:15 @ Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netoph'athite, of Oth'ni-el; in his division were twenty-four thousand.

rsv@1Chronicles:27:23 @ 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:27:28 @ 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: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:28:10 @ Take heed now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it."

rsv@1Chronicles:28:15 @ 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:28:19 @ 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: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:29:5 @ 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:29:8 @ 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:29:11 @ 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:29:14 @ "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:29:17 @ 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:29:24 @ 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:29:29 @ Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,

rsv@2Chronicles:1:2 @ 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:1:6 @ 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:1:12 @ 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:1:17 @ 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:2:11 @ 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:2:14 @ 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:3:4 @ 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:3:6 @ He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parva'im.

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:3:11 @ 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:3:15 @ 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: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:4:4 @ 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:4:6 @ 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:4:12 @ 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:4:20 @ 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:5:4 @ And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

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:5:9 @ 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:5:11 @ 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:6:2 @ 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:6:12 @ 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:6:19 @ 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:6:29 @ 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:6:36 @ "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:6:40 @ 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: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:7:6 @ 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:7:8 @ 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:7:10 @ 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:7:15 @ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

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:7:21 @ And at this house, which is exalted, every one passing by will be astonished, and say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?"

rsv@2Chronicles:8:2 @ 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:8:6 @ 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:8:8 @ from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed--these Solomon made a forced levy and so they are to this day.

rsv@2Chronicles:8:11 @ Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy."

rsv@2Chronicles:8:12 @ 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:8:17 @ 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:9:5 @ 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:9:9 @ 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:9:12 @ 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:9:18 @ 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:9:21 @ 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:9:23 @ 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:9:26 @ 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:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahi'jah the Shi'lonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jerobo'am the son of Nebat?

rsv@2Chronicles:10:1 @ Rehobo'am went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

rsv@2Chronicles:10:3 @ And they sent and called him; and Jerobo'am and all Israel came and said to Rehobo'am,

rsv@2Chronicles:10:5 @ 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:10:14 @ 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:10:18 @ 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:11:11 @ He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.

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:11:16 @ And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:18 @ Rehobo'am took as wife Ma'halath the daughter of Jer'imoth the son of David, and of Ab'ihail the daughter of Eli'ab the son of Jesse;

rsv@2Chronicles:11:20 @ After her he took Ma'acah the daughter of Ab'salom, who bore him Abi'jah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelo'mith.

rsv@2Chronicles:11:21 @ Rehobo'am loved Ma'acah the daughter of Ab'salom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters);

rsv@2Chronicles:11:22 @ and Rehobo'am appointed Abi'jah the son of Ma'acah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.

rsv@2Chronicles: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:12:4 @ And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:5 @ Then Shemai'ah the prophet came to Rehobo'am and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, `You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'"

rsv@2Chronicles:12:7 @ When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemai'ah: "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

rsv@2Chronicles:12:8 @ 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:13:1 @ In the eighteenth year of King Jerobo'am Abi'jah began to reign over Judah.

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:13:8 @ "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:13:16 @ The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.

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:13:21 @ 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:14:3 @ 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:14:7 @ 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:14:10 @ 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:14:15 @ 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:15:2 @ 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:15:4 @ 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:15:8 @ 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:15:11 @ 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:15:18 @ 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: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:16:14 @ 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:17:4 @ 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:17:12 @ 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:17:15 @ 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:17:18 @ and next to him Jeho'zabad with a hundred and eighty thousand armed for war.

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:18:7 @ 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:18:11 @ 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:18:14 @ 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:18:20 @ 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:18:23 @ 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:18:28 @ 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:18:31 @ 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:18:33 @ But a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate; therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn about, and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded."

rsv@2Chronicles:19:1 @ 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:19:6 @ 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:19:8 @ Moreover in Jerusalem Jehosh'aphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:19:10 @ whenever a case comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brethren. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

rsv@2Chronicles: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:20:9 @ `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:20:11 @ 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:20:15 @ 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:20:31 @ Thus Jehosh'aphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azu'bah the daughter of Shilhi.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:34 @ Now the rest of the acts of Jehosh'aphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hana'ni, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

rsv@2Chronicles:20:36 @ 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:21:3 @ 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:21:7 @ 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:21:10 @ So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:11 @ Moreover he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, and made Judah go astray.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:12 @ And a letter came to him from Eli'jah the prophet, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, `Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehosh'aphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

rsv@2Chronicles:21:13 @ but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, as the house of Ahab led Israel into unfaithfulness, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than yourself;

rsv@2Chronicles:21:17 @ and they came up against Judah, and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jeho'ahaz, his youngest son.

rsv@2Chronicles:21:20 @ He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem; and he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:1 @ And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahazi'ah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram king of Judah reigned.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:2 @ Ahazi'ah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athali'ah, the granddaughter of Omri.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:4 @ He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done; for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:5 @ 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:22:9 @ 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:22:11 @ But Jeho-shab'e-ath, the daughter of the king, took Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus Jeho-shab'e-ath, the daughter of King Jeho'ram and wife of Jehoi'ada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahazi'ah, hid him from Athali'ah, so that she did not slay him;

rsv@2Chronicles:23:1 @ But in the seventh year Jehoi'ada took courage, and entered into a compact with the commanders of hundreds, Azari'ah the son of Jero'ham, Ish'mael the son of Jehoha'nan, Azari'ah the son of Obed, Ma-asei'ah the son of Adai'ah, and Elisha'phat the son of Zichri.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:2 @ And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:23:3 @ 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:23:8 @ 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:23:12 @ 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:23:14 @ 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:23:17 @ 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:23:20 @ 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: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:24:4 @ 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:24:9 @ 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:24:16 @ 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:24:19 @ 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:24:23 @ 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: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:25:4 @ But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."

rsv@2Chronicles:25:5 @ Then Amazi'ah assembled the men of Judah, and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:7 @ But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these E'phraimites.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:8 @ 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:25:20 @ 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:25:26 @ Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

rsv@2Chronicles:25:27 @ From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:1 @ And all the people of Judah took Uzzi'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:2 @ He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:3 @ Uzzi'ah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoli'ah of Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:4 @ 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:26:8 @ 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:26:13 @ 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:26:18 @ and they withstood King Uzzi'ah, and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzzi'ah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God."

rsv@2Chronicles:26:19 @ Then Uzzi'ah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests leprosy broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:20 @ And Azari'ah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they thrust him out quickly, and he himself hastened to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:21 @ And King Uzzi'ah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper dwelt in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:22 @ Now the rest of the acts of Uzzi'ah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote.

rsv@2Chronicles:26:23 @ And Uzzi'ah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field which belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is a leper." And Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:1 @ Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeru'shah the daughter of Zadok.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:2 @ And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzzi'ah had done--only he did not invade the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:4 @ Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:8 @ He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

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:28:3 @ 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:28:5 @ 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:28:7 @ 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:28:12 @ 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:28:15 @ 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:28:19 @ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had dealt wantonly in Judah and had been faithless to the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:21 @ For Ahaz took from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria; but it did not help him.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:22 @ In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:23 @ 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:29:5 @ 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:29:7 @ 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:29:10 @ 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:29:15 @ 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:29:20 @ 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:29:23 @ 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:29:30 @ 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:29:34 @ 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: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:30:4 @ 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:30:19 @ 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:30:21 @ 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:30:27 @ 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:31:4 @ And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of the LORD.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:6 @ And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the dedicated things which had been consecrated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.

rsv@2Chronicles:31:7 @ In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

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:31:14 @ 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:31:19 @ 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:31:21 @ 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:32:8 @ With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence from the words of Hezeki'ah king of Judah.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:9 @ After this Sennach'erib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezeki'ah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah that were in Jerusalem, saying,

rsv@2Chronicles:32:11 @ Is not Hezeki'ah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, "The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:13 @ 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:32:17 @ And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezeki'ah will not deliver his people from my hand."

rsv@2Chronicles:32:18 @ And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:20 @ Then Hezeki'ah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:21 @ 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:32:23 @ 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:32:27 @ 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:32:30 @ 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:32:33 @ 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:33:6 @ 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:33:10 @ 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:33:13 @ 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:33:21 @ 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: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:34:7 @ 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:34:14 @ 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:34:21 @ "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:34:25 @ 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:34:28 @ 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:35:12 @ 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:35:15 @ 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:35:20 @ 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:36:1 @ The people of the land took Jeho'ahaz the son of Josi'ah and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:2 @ Jeho'ahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:4 @ And the king of Egypt made Eli'akim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoi'akim; but Neco took Jeho'ahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.

rsv@2Chronicles:36:5 @ 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:36:9 @ 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:36:13 @ 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:36:15 @ 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:36:17 @ 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:36:20 @ 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:36:23 @ "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:1:2 @ "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

rsv@Ezra:1:3 @ Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel-- he is the God who is in Jerusalem;

rsv@Ezra:1:5 @ Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, every one whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem;

rsv@Ezra:1:8 @ Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in charge of Mith'redath the treasurer, who counted them out to Shesh-baz'zar the prince of Judah.

rsv@Ezra: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:2:22 @ The men of Neto'phah, fifty-six.

rsv@Ezra:2:59 @ The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers' houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

rsv@Ezra:2:60 @ the sons of Delai'ah, the sons of Tobi'ah, and the sons of Neko'da, six hundred and fifty-two.

rsv@Ezra:2:63 @ 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:2:64 @ The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

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:3:1 @ When the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.

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:3:4 @ And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as each day required,

rsv@Ezra:3:5 @ and after that the continual burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of every one who made a freewill offering to the LORD.

rsv@Ezra:3:6 @ From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

rsv@Ezra:3:7 @ So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sido'nians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

rsv@Ezra:3:8 @ Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el and Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their brethren, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of the LORD.

rsv@Ezra:3:9 @ And Jeshua with his sons and his kinsmen, and Kad'mi-el and his sons, the sons of Judah, together took the oversight of the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Hen'adad and the Levites, their sons and kinsmen.

rsv@Ezra:3:10 @ And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel;

rsv@Ezra:3:11 @ and they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

rsv@Ezra: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:4:4 @ Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,

rsv@Ezra:4:5 @ and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

rsv@Ezra:4:7 @ 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:4:11 @ 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:4:12 @ be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city; they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

rsv@Ezra:4:13 @ Now be it known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

rsv@Ezra:4:14 @ 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:4:18 @ the letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.

rsv@Ezra:4:20 @ And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

rsv@Ezra:4:21 @ 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:4:22 @ And take care not to be slack in this matter; why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?"

rsv@Ezra:4:23 @ Then, when the copy of King Ar-ta-xerx'es' letter was read before Rehum and Shim'shai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

rsv@Ezra:4:24 @ Then the work on the house of God which is in Jerusalem stopped; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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:5:5 @ But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them till a report should reach Darius and then answer be returned by letter concerning it.

rsv@Ezra:5:6 @ The copy of the letter which Tat'tenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and She'thar-boz'enai and his associates the governors who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king;

rsv@Ezra:5:7 @ they sent him a report, in which was written as follows: "To Darius the king, all peace.

rsv@Ezra:5:8 @ 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:5:9 @ Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus, `Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?'

rsv@Ezra:5:11 @ And this was their reply to us: `We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

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:5:17 @ 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:6:4 @ 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:6:8 @ 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:6:17 @ 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:6:20 @ 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:6:22 @ And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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:7:8 @ And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king;

rsv@Ezra:7:9 @ for on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was upon him.

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:7:15 @ and also to convey the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling 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:7:20 @ And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which you have occasion to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.

rsv@Ezra:7:21 @ "And I, Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, be it done with all diligence,

rsv@Ezra:7:22 @ 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:7:24 @ 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:7:28 @ and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

rsv@Ezra:8:15 @ 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:8:17 @ and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphi'a, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brethren the temple servants at the place Casiphi'a, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.

rsv@Ezra:8:20 @ 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:8:22 @ For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way; since we had told the king, "The hand of our God is for good upon all that seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all that forsake him."

rsv@Ezra:8:23 @ So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

rsv@Ezra:8:25 @ 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:8:28 @ 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:8:30 @ 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:8:32 @ We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days.

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:8:36 @ They also delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River; and they aided the people and the house of God.

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:9:5 @ 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:9:9 @ For we are bondmen; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezra:9:11 @ which thou didst command by thy servants the prophets, saying, `The land which you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land unclean with the pollutions of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.

rsv@Ezra:9:12 @ Therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.'

rsv@Ezra:9:14 @ shall we break thy commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou wouldst consume us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

rsv@Ezra:10:1 @ While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

rsv@Ezra:10:3 @ 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:10:10 @ 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:10:16 @ 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:10:17 @ and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

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@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:1:6 @ 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:1:9 @ 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:2:9 @ Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:10 @ But when Sanbal'lat the Hor'onite and Tobi'ah the servant, the Ammonite, heard this, it displeased them greatly that some one had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:11 @ So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:12 @ Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; and I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no beast with me but the beast on which I rode.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:13 @ I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Jackal's Well and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which had been destroyed by fire.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:14 @ Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool; but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:16 @ And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing; and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest that were to do the work.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:17 @ Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer disgrace."

rsv@Nehemiah:2:18 @ And I told them of the hand of my God which had been upon me for good, and also of the words which the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

rsv@Nehemiah:2:19 @ But when Sanbal'lat the Hor'onite and Tobi'ah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"

rsv@Nehemiah:2:20 @ Then I replied to them, "The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build; but you have no portion or right or memorial in Jerusalem."

rsv@Nehemiah:3:1 @ Then Eli'ashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hanan'el.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:2 @ And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:4 @ 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:3:7 @ And next to them repaired Melati'ah the Gib'eonite and Jadon the Mero'nothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, who were under the jurisdiction of the governor of the province Beyond the River.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:8 @ Next to them Uz'ziel the son of Harhai'ah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hanani'ah, one of the perfumers, repaired; and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:9 @ Next to them Rephai'ah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:10 @ Next to them Jedai'ah the son of Haru'maph repaired opposite his house; and next to him Hattush the son of Hashabnei'ah repaired.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:11 @ Malchi'jah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pa'hath-mo'ab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:12 @ Next to him Shallum the son of Hallo'hesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:16 @ 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:3:21 @ After him Mer'emoth the son of Uri'ah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eli'ashib to the end of the house of Eli'ashib.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:24 @ After him Bin'nui the son of Hen'adad repaired another section, from the house of Azari'ah to the Angle

rsv@Nehemiah:3:25 @ and to the corner. Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedai'ah the son of Parosh

rsv@Nehemiah:3:26 @ and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:27 @ After him the Teko'ites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.

rsv@Nehemiah:3:31 @ After him Malchi'jah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And he said in the presence of his brethren and of the army of Sama'ria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"

rsv@Nehemiah:4:3 @ Tobi'ah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "Yes, what they are building-- if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!"

rsv@Nehemiah:4:4 @ Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn back their taunt upon their own heads, and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:5 @ Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight; for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:6 @ So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height. For the people had a mind to work.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:7 @ But when Sanbal'lat and Tobi'ah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ash'dodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry;

rsv@Nehemiah:4:8 @ and they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:9 @ And we prayed to our God, and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:10 @ But Judah said, "The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is much rubbish; we are not able to work on the wall."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:11 @ And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come into the midst of them and kill them and stop the work."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:12 @ When the Jews who lived by them came they said to us ten times, "From all the places where they live they will come up against us."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:13 @ So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:14 @ And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:15 @ When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:16 @ From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail; and the leaders stood behind all the house of Judah,

rsv@Nehemiah:4:19 @ And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.

rsv@Nehemiah:4:20 @ In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:22 @ I also said to the people at that time, "Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day."

rsv@Nehemiah:4:23 @ So neither I nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon in his hand.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:3 @ 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:5:7 @ I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them,

rsv@Nehemiah:5:8 @ and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brethren who have been sold to the nations; but you even sell your brethren that they may be sold to us!" They were silent, and could not find a word to say.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:9 @ So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

rsv@Nehemiah:5:11 @ 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:5:14 @ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Ar-ta-xerx'es the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brethren ate the food allowance of the governor.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:15 @ The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:16 @ I also held to the work on this wall, and acquired no land; and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

rsv@Nehemiah:5:17 @ Moreover there were at my table a hundred and fifty men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations which were about us.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:1 @ Now when it was reported to Sanbal'lat and Tobi'ah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),

rsv@Nehemiah:6:2 @ Sanbal'lat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono." But they intended to do me harm.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:3 @ And I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"

rsv@Nehemiah:6:4 @ And they sent to me four times in this way and I answered them in the same manner.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:5 @ In the same way Sanbal'lat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:6 @ In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall; and you wish to become their king, according to this report.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:7 @ And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, `There is a king in Judah.' And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. So now come, and let us take counsel together."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:8 @ Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:9 @ For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen thou my hands.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:10 @ Now when I went into the house of Shemai'ah the son of Delai'ah, son of Mehet'abel, who was shut up, he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you, at night they are coming to kill you."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:11 @ But I said, "Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in."

rsv@Nehemiah:6:12 @ And I understood, and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobi'ah and Sanbal'lat had hired him.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:13 @ For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me an evil name, in order to taunt me.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:14 @ Remember Tobi'ah and Sanbal'lat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess No-adi'ah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:17 @ 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:7:3 @ And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are still standing guard let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each to his station and each opposite his own house."

rsv@Nehemiah:7:5 @ Then God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

rsv@Nehemiah:7:6 @ 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:7:26 @ The men of Bethlehem and Neto'phah, a hundred and eighty-eight.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:61 @ The following were those who came up from Tel-me'lah, Tel-har'sha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:

rsv@Nehemiah:7:62 @ the sons of Delai'ah, the sons of Tobi'ah, the sons of Neko'da, six hundred and forty-two.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:65 @ the governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.

rsv@Nehemiah:7:66 @ The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,

rsv@Nehemiah:7:70 @ 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:7:73 @ So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their towns.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:1 @ And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had given to Israel.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:3 @ And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:4 @ And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden pulpit which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithi'ah, Shema, Anai'ah, Uri'ah, Hilki'ah, and Ma-asei'ah on his right hand; and Pedai'ah, Mish'a-el, Malchi'jah, Hashum, Hash-bad'danah, Zechari'ah, and Meshul'lam on his left hand.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:5 @ And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people; and when he opened it all the people stood.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:6 @ And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God; and all the people answered, "Amen, Amen," lifting up their hands; and they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:7 @ Also Jesh'ua, Bani, Sherebi'ah, Jamin, Akkub, Shab'bethai, Hodi'ah, Ma-asei'ah, Keli'ta, Azari'ah, Jo'zabad, Hanan, Pelai'ah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the law, while the people remained in their places.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:8 @ And they read from the book, from the law of God, clearly; and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:9 @ And Nehemi'ah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:10 @ Then he said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord; and do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

rsv@Nehemiah:8:12 @ And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:13 @ On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:15 @ 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:8:17 @ And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and dwelt in the booths; for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.

rsv@Nehemiah:8:18 @ And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:2 @ 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:9:8 @ and thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make with him the covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Per'izzite, the Jeb'usite, and the Gir'gashite; and thou hast fulfilled thy promise, for thou art righteous.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:10 @ and didst perform signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for thou knewest that they acted insolently against our fathers; and thou didst get thee a name, as it is to this day.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:11 @ And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land; and thou didst cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:12 @ By a pillar of cloud thou didst lead them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:14 @ 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:9:17 @ they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders which thou didst perform among them; but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and didst not forsake them.

rsv@Nehemiah:9:20 @ 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:9:22 @ 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:9:32 @ "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:9:36 @ 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:10:28 @ The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,

rsv@Nehemiah:10:29 @ join with their brethren, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:30 @ We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:31 @ and if the peoples of the land bring in wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or on a holy day; and we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:32 @ We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

rsv@Nehemiah:10:33 @ for the showbread, the continual cereal offering, the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:34 @ We have likewise cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:35 @ We obligate ourselves to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:36 @ also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the first-born of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks;

rsv@Nehemiah:10:37 @ and to bring the first of our coarse meal, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:38 @ And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, to the storehouse.

rsv@Nehemiah:10:39 @ For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:1 @ Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine tenths remained in the other towns.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:2 @ And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:3 @ These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah every one lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:17 @ and Mattani'ah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbuki'ah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Sham'mua, son of Galal, son of Jedu'thun.

rsv@Nehemiah:11:20 @ 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:11:30 @ 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:11:36 @ And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:9 @ And Bakbuki'ah and Unno their brethren stood opposite them in the service.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:24 @ And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabi'ah, Sherebi'ah, and Jeshua the son of Kad'mi-el, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch corresponding to watch.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:25 @ Mattani'ah, Bakbuki'ah, Obadi'ah, Meshul'lam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:27 @ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:28 @ And the sons of the singers gathered together from the circuit round Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netoph'athites;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:31 @ 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:12:37 @ At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:38 @ The other company of those who gave thanks went to the left, and I followed them with half of the people, upon the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,

rsv@Nehemiah:12:39 @ and above the Gate of E'phraim, and by the Old Gate, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hanan'el and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:40 @ So both companies of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;

rsv@Nehemiah:12:44 @ On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:45 @ And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.

rsv@Nehemiah:12:46 @ For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

rsv@Nehemiah: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:13:4 @ Now before this, Eli'ashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was connected with Tobi'ah,

rsv@Nehemiah:13:5 @ prepared for Tobi'ah a large chamber where they had previously put the cereal offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:6 @ While this was taking place I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king

rsv@Nehemiah:13:7 @ and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eli'ashib had done for Tobi'ah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:8 @ And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobi'ah out of the chamber.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:10 @ I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:11 @ So I remonstrated with the officials and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:12 @ Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:13 @ And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemi'ah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedai'ah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattani'ah, for they were counted faithful; and their duty was to distribute to their brethren.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:15 @ 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:13:21 @ But I warned them and said to them, "Why do you lodge before the wall? If you do so again I will lay hands on you." From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:22 @ And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of thy steadfast love.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:25 @ And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair; and I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:26 @ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless foreign women made even him to sin.

rsv@Nehemiah:13:27 @ Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"

rsv@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:1:6 @ 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:1:11 @ 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:1:22 @ 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:2:3 @ 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:2:8 @ 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:2:18 @ Then the king gave a great banquet to all his princes and servants; it was Esther's banquet. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.

rsv@Esther:2:19 @ When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mor'decai was sitting at the king's gate.

rsv@Esther:2:21 @ And in those days, as Mor'decai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasu-e'rus.

rsv@Esther:2:22 @ 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:3:2 @ 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:3:8 @ 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:4:4 @ 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: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:5:8 @ 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:5:11 @ 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:5:14 @ 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:6:9 @ 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:7:4 @ 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:7:7 @ 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: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:8:11 @ 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:8:13 @ 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: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:9:5 @ 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:9:11 @ 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:9:16 @ 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:9:19 @ 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:9:22 @ 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:9:27 @ 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:9:30 @ Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasu-e'rus, in words of peace and truth,

rsv@Esther:9:31 @ that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mor'decai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined upon the Jews, and as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.

rsv@Esther:10:2 @ 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:1:2 @ There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

rsv@Job:1:4 @ His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each on his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

rsv@Job:1:5 @ And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.

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:1:7 @ The LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

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:1:11 @ But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face."

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:1:14 @ 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:1:19 @ 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: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:2:2 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

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:2:6 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power; only spare his life."

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:2:9 @ Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die."

rsv@Job:2:10 @ But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

rsv@Job:2:11 @ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eli'phaz the Te'manite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na'amathite. They made an appointment together to come to condole with him and comfort him.

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:2:13 @ And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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:3:8 @ Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.

rsv@Job:3:18 @ There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

rsv@Job:3:20 @ "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

rsv@Job:3:23 @ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?

rsv@Job:4:5 @ But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

rsv@Job:4:12 @ "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it.

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:5:1 @ "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

rsv@Job:5:4 @ His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

rsv@Job:5:7 @ but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

rsv@Job:5:8 @ "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;

rsv@Job:5:11 @ he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

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:5:19 @ 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:5:23 @ 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:5:26 @ 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:6:7 @ My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

rsv@Job:6:9 @ that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

rsv@Job:6:12 @ Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?

rsv@Job:6:15 @ My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,

rsv@Job:6:18 @ The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.

rsv@Job:6:21 @ Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.

rsv@Job:6:28 @ "But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.

rsv@Job:6:30 @ Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

rsv@Job:7:3 @ so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

rsv@Job:7:4 @ When I lie down I say, `en I lie down I say, "When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

rsv@Job:7:6 @ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.

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:7:20 @ If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?

rsv@Job:8:4 @ If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.

rsv@Job:8:5 @ If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

rsv@Job:8:17 @ His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

rsv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

rsv@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, `u'?

rsv@Job:9:15 @ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

rsv@Job:9:16 @ If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

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:9:32 @ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

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:10:2 @ I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.

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:10:7 @ although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

rsv@Job:10:9 @ Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

rsv@Job:10:11 @ Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

rsv@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

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:10:19 @ and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

rsv@Job:10:21 @ before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

rsv@Job:11:5 @ But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

rsv@Job:11:10 @ If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?

rsv@Job:11:13 @ "If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

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:12:8 @ or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

rsv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.

rsv@Job:13:1 @ "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

rsv@Job:13:2 @ What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

rsv@Job:13:3 @ But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

rsv@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

rsv@Job:13:8 @ Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?

rsv@Job:13:15 @ Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.

rsv@Job:13:17 @ Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

rsv@Job:13:20 @ Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:

rsv@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.

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:14:3 @ And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?

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:14:21 @ 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:15:8 @ Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself+?

rsv@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

rsv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

rsv@Job:15:18 @ (what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,

rsv@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

rsv@Job:15:25 @ Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,

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:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

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:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

rsv@Job:17:4 @ Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.

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:17:9 @ Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

rsv@Job:17:12 @ They make night into day; `he light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'

rsv@Job:17:14 @ if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'

rsv@Job:17:16 @ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

rsv@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

rsv@Job:18:14 @ He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.

rsv@Job:18:15 @ In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.

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: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:19:12 @ His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.

rsv@Job:19:16 @ I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.

rsv@Job:19:17 @ I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.

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:19:21 @ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

rsv@Job:20:6 @ Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

rsv@Job:20:12 @ "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

rsv@Job:20:13 @ though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,

rsv@Job:20:14 @ yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.

rsv@Job:20:16 @ He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

rsv@Job:20:18 @ He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.

rsv@Job:20:23 @ To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.

rsv@Job:21:2 @ "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

rsv@Job:21:12 @ They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

rsv@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

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:21:15 @ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'

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:21:27 @ "Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

rsv@Job:21:31 @ Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?

rsv@Job:21:32 @ When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

rsv@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

rsv@Job:22:2 @ "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

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:22:7 @ You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

rsv@Job:22:15 @ Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?

rsv@Job:22:17 @ They said to God, `ey said to God, "Depart from us,' and `d "What can the Almighty do to us?'

rsv@Job:22:19 @ The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,

rsv@Job:22:21 @ "Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

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:22:26 @ then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

rsv@Job:22:27 @ You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

rsv@Job:23:2 @ "Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

rsv@Job:23:3 @ Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

rsv@Job:23:5 @ I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

rsv@Job:23:6 @ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me.

rsv@Job:23:9 @ on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.

rsv@Job:23:11 @ My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.

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:24:8 @ They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

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:24:17 @ For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

rsv@Job:24:18 @ "You say, "They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

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:25:3 @ Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

rsv@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.

rsv@Job:27:1 @ And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

rsv@Job:27:4 @ my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

rsv@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

rsv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

rsv@Job:27:14 @ If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough to eat.

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:28:3 @ Men put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

rsv@Job:28:4 @ They open shafts in a valley away from where men live; they are forgotten by travelers, they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

rsv@Job:28:6 @ Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

rsv@Job:28:9 @ "Man puts his hand to the flinty rock, and overturns mountains by the roots.

rsv@Job:28:11 @ He binds up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

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:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.

rsv@Job:28:23 @ "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.

rsv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens.

rsv@Job:28:25 @ When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure;

rsv@Job:28:28 @ And he said to man, `ehold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'+"

rsv@Job:29:1 @ And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

rsv@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,

rsv@Job:29:8 @ the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;

rsv@Job:29:10 @ the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

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:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

rsv@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

rsv@Job:29:19 @ my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

rsv@Job:29:21 @ "Men listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

rsv@Job:30:1 @ "But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

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:30:9 @ "And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.

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:30:19 @ God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

rsv@Job:30:20 @ I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.

rsv@Job:30:21 @ Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.

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:30:23 @ Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

rsv@Job:30:27 @ My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.

rsv@Job:30:31 @ My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

rsv@Job:31:5 @ "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;

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:31:9 @ "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

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:31:16 @ "If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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:31:29 @ "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him

rsv@Job:31:32 @ (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);

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:31:35 @ Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

rsv@Job:31:38 @ "If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together;

rsv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

rsv@Job:32:3 @ he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

rsv@Job:32:4 @ Now Eli'hu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

rsv@Job:32:6 @ And Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite answered: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

rsv@Job:32:10 @ Therefore I say, `isten to me; let me also declare my opinion.'

rsv@Job:32:11 @ "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.

rsv@Job:32:15 @ "They are discomfited, they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

rsv@Job:32:19 @ Behold, my heart is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.

rsv@Job:32:21 @ I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.

rsv@Job:32:22 @ For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.

rsv@Job:33:1 @ "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

rsv@Job:33:2 @ Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.

rsv@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

rsv@Job:33:11 @ he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'

rsv@Job:33:22 @ His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.

rsv@Job:33:23 @ If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him;

rsv@Job:33:24 @ and he is gracious to him, and says, `eliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom;

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:33:27 @ and he sings before men, and says: `d perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.

rsv@Job:33:28 @ He has redeemed my soul from going down into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.'

rsv@Job:33:30 @ to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.

rsv@Job:33:31 @ Give heed, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

rsv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

rsv@Job:33:33 @ If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

rsv@Job:34:2 @ "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;

rsv@Job:34:11 @ For according to the work of a man he will requite him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.

rsv@Job:34:14 @ If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,

rsv@Job:34:15 @ all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

rsv@Job:34:16 @ "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.

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:34:23 @ For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.

rsv@Job:34:28 @ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--

rsv@Job:34:31 @ "For has any one said to God, ` have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;

rsv@Job:34:33 @ Will he then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.

rsv@Job:34:34 @ Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:

rsv@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.

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:35:2 @ "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ` you say, "It is my right before 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:36:2 @ "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

rsv@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

rsv@Job:36:9 @ then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

rsv@Job:36:10 @ He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

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:36:21 @ Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

rsv@Job:36:24 @ "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

rsv@Job:36:32 @ He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

rsv@Job:37:2 @ Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

rsv@Job:37:3 @ Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

rsv@Job:37:6 @ For to the snow he says, `th'; and to the shower and the rain, "Be strong.'

rsv@Job:37:8 @ Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.

rsv@Job:37:12 @ They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

rsv@Job:37:13 @ Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.

rsv@Job:37:14 @ "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

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:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

rsv@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

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:38:7 @ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

rsv@Job:38:12 @ "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

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:38:20 @ that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

rsv@Job:38:22 @ "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

rsv@Job:38:24 @ What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

rsv@Job:38:25 @ "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,

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:38:29 @ From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?

rsv@Job:38:30 @ The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

rsv@Job:38:34 @ "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

rsv@Job:38:35 @ Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, `d say to you, "Here we are'?

rsv@Job:38:36 @ Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or given understanding to the mists?

rsv@Job:38:38 @ when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?

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:39:6 @ to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?

rsv@Job:39:9 @ "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?

rsv@Job:39:11 @ Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

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:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

rsv@Job:39:26 @ "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south?

rsv@Job:40:1 @ And the LORD said to Job:

rsv@Job:40:7 @ "Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.

rsv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.

rsv@Job:40:14 @ Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you victory.

rsv@Job:40:17 @ He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

rsv@Job:41:1 @ "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

rsv@Job:41:3 @ Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

rsv@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever?

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:41:11 @ Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

rsv@Job:41:16 @ One is so near to another that no air can come between them.

rsv@Job:41:17 @ They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.

rsv@Job:41:19 @ Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

rsv@Job:41:23 @ The folds of his flesh cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.

rsv@Job:41:24 @ His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.

rsv@Job:41:28 @ The arrow cannot make him flee; for him slingstones are turned to stubble.

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:42:7 @ 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:42:9 @ So Eli'phaz the Te'manite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Na'amathite went and did what the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.

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:42:11 @ Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

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:2:5 @ Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,

rsv@Psalms:2:7 @ I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you.

rsv@Psalms:3:5 @ I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:3:8 @ Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked. [ (Psalms strkjv@3:9) Deliverance belongs to the LORD; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:4:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

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:4:4 @ But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.

rsv@Psalms:5:1 @ To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:5:2 @ Give ear to my words, O LORD; give heed to my groaning.

rsv@Psalms:5:3 @ Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.

rsv@Psalms:5:8 @ But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love will enter thy house, I will worship toward thy holy temple in the fear of thee.

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:6:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

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:6:10 @ 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:7:1 @ A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite.

rsv@Psalms:7:3 @ lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

rsv@Psalms:7:6 @ let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms: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:7:16 @ 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:8:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

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:9:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:9:2 @ I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.

rsv@Psalms:9:3 @ I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.

rsv@Psalms:9:12 @ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!

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:9:18 @ The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

rsv@Psalms:10:7 @ His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

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:10:13 @ 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:10:18 @ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

rsv@Psalms:11:1 @ To the choirmaster. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:11:2 @ In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains;

rsv@Psalms:11:3 @ for lo, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;

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:12:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

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:12:5 @ those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is our master?"

rsv@Psalms:13:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:13:6 @ But I have trusted in thy steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. [ (Psalms strkjv@13:7) I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me. ]

rsv@Psalms:14:1 @ To the choirmaster. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:14:3 @ The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.

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:15:4 @ 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:16:3 @ I say to the LORD, "Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee."

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:17:2 @ Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

rsv@Psalms:17:5 @ With regard to the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

rsv@Psalms:17:6 @ My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

rsv@Psalms:17:7 @ I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God; incline thy ear to me, hear my words.

rsv@Psalms:17:11 @ They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

rsv@Psalms:17:12 @ They track me down; now they surround me; they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:17:13 @ They are like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

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:18:4 @ I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:18:5 @ The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed 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:18:13 @ 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:18:17 @ He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

rsv@Psalms:18:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

rsv@Psalms:18:20 @ He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

rsv@Psalms:18:21 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@Psalms:18:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

rsv@Psalms:18:38 @ I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back till they were consumed.

rsv@Psalms:18:39 @ I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.

rsv@Psalms:18:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.

rsv@Psalms:18:42 @ They cried for help, but there was none to save, they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

rsv@Psalms:18:45 @ As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.

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:19:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

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:19:7 @ Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.

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:20:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:20:6 @ May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfil all your petitions!

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:20:9 @ They will collapse and fall; but we shall rise and stand upright. [ (Psalms strkjv@20:10) Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call. ]

rsv@Psalms:21:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

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:21:13 @ 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:22:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Hind of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:22:6 @ To thee they cried, and were saved; in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.

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:22:10 @ Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.

rsv@Psalms:22:12 @ Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.

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:22:20 @ But thou, O LORD, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!

rsv@Psalms:22:23 @ I will tell of thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:

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:22:28 @ 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:22:30 @ Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.

rsv@Psalms:22:31 @ Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation, [ (Psalms strkjv@22:32) and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it. ]

rsv@Psalms:23:4 @ he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

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:25:2 @ To thee, O LORD, I lift up my soul.

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:25:4 @ Yea, let none that wait for thee be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

rsv@Psalms:25:5 @ Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

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:25:15 @ 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:25:17 @ Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me; for I am lonely and afflicted.

rsv@Psalms:25:21 @ Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.

rsv@Psalms:26:4 @ For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee.

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:27:5 @ One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

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:27:8 @ Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!

rsv@Psalms:27:9 @ Thou hast said, "Seek ye my face." My heart says to thee, "Thy face, LORD, do I seek."

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: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:28:3 @ Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.

rsv@Psalms:28:5 @ Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.

rsv@Psalms:28:8 @ The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

rsv@Psalms:29:2 @ Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

rsv@Psalms:29:3 @ Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy array.

rsv@Psalms:29:7 @ He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox.

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:30:3 @ O LORD my God, I cried to thee for help, and thou hast healed 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:30:9 @ To thee, O LORD, I cried; and to the LORD I made supplication:

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:30:11 @ Hear, O LORD, and be gracious to me! O LORD, be thou my helper!"

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:31:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

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:31:6 @ Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

rsv@Psalms:31:7 @ Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:31:9 @ and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a broad place.

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:31:12 @ 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:31:14 @ Yea, I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

rsv@Psalms:31:16 @ My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!

rsv@Psalms:31:18 @ Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on thee; let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.

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:31:23 @ I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from thy sight." But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.

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:33:2 @ Praise the LORD with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!

rsv@Psalms:33:3 @ Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

rsv@Psalms:33:7 @ He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

rsv@Psalms:33:9 @ For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.

rsv@Psalms:33:10 @ The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:33:11 @ The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:33:17 @ The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.

rsv@Psalms:34:4 @ O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!

rsv@Psalms:34:6 @ Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

rsv@Psalms:34:12 @ Come, O sons, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:34:14 @ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

rsv@Psalms:34:16 @ The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.

rsv@Psalms:34:17 @ The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

rsv@Psalms:34:19 @ The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

rsv@Psalms:35:4 @ Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your deliverance!"

rsv@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!

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:35:16 @ But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;

rsv@Psalms:35:25 @ 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:36:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:36:2 @ Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.

rsv@Psalms:36:4 @ The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

rsv@Psalms:36:6 @ Thy steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.

rsv@Psalms:36:11 @ O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee, and thy salvation to the upright of heart!

rsv@Psalms:36:12 @ Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. [ (Psalms strkjv@36:13) There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise. ]

rsv@Psalms:37:6 @ Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.

rsv@Psalms:37:9 @ Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

rsv@Psalms:37:15 @ The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly;

rsv@Psalms:37:20 @ they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance.

rsv@Psalms:37:31 @ The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

rsv@Psalms:37:33 @ The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

rsv@Psalms:37:34 @ The LORD will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

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:37:36 @ I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

rsv@Psalms:37:39 @ But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:38:3 @ For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.

rsv@Psalms:38:5 @ For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

rsv@Psalms:38:10 @ Lord, all my longing is known to thee, my sighing is not hidden from thee.

rsv@Psalms:38:18 @ For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

rsv@Psalms:38:22 @ Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me! [ (Psalms strkjv@38:23) Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation! ]

rsv@Psalms:39:1 @ To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

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:39:4 @ my heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

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:40:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:40:2 @ I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

rsv@Psalms:40:4 @ He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.

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:40:6 @ Thou hast multiplied, O LORD my God, thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us; none can compare with thee! Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered.

rsv@Psalms:40:9 @ I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart."

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:40:14 @ Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help 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:40:16 @ Let them be appalled because of their shame who say to me, "Aha, Aha!"

rsv@Psalms:41:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

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:41:5 @ As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against thee!"

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:41:8 @ All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.

rsv@Psalms:41:11 @ But do thou, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!

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:42:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:42:4 @ My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"

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:42:9 @ By day the LORD commands his steadfast love; and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

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:43:3 @ Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling!

rsv@Psalms:43:4 @ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise thee with the lyre, O God, my God.

rsv@Psalms:44:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:44:2 @ We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days of old:

rsv@Psalms:44:4 @ for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.

rsv@Psalms:44:5 @ Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:44:8 @ But thou hast saved us from our foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.

rsv@Psalms:44:9 @ In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:44:15 @ Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:44:18 @ All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.

rsv@Psalms:44:21 @ If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,

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:45:5 @ 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:45:12 @ and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;

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:45:17 @ 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:46:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:46:7 @ The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.

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:47:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:47:2 @ Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

rsv@Psalms:47:7 @ Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

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:48:2 @ Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,

rsv@Psalms:48:5 @ For lo, the kings assembled, they came on together.

rsv@Psalms:48:6 @ As soon as they saw it, they were astounded, they were in panic, they took to flight;

rsv@Psalms:48:7 @ trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.

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:48:13 @ Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers,

rsv@Psalms:49:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:49:3 @ both low and high, rich and poor together!

rsv@Psalms:49:5 @ I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

rsv@Psalms:49:6 @ Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,

rsv@Psalms:49:8 @ Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,

rsv@Psalms:49:10 @ that he should continue to live on for ever, and never see the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:49:11 @ Yea, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.

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:49:20 @ he will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never more see the light. [ (Psalms strkjv@49:21) Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish. ]

rsv@Psalms:50:2 @ The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

rsv@Psalms:50:5 @ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

rsv@Psalms:50:6 @ "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"

rsv@Psalms:50:15 @ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

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:50:23 @ "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:51:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

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:51:13 @ 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:51:17 @ For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.

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:52:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."

rsv@Psalms:52:3 @ you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

rsv@Psalms:52:5 @ You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

rsv@Psalms:53:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

rsv@Psalms:53:3 @ God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.

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:54:3 @ Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

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:55:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.

rsv@Psalms:55:2 @ Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication!

rsv@Psalms:55:3 @ Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught

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:55:15 @ We used to hold sweet converse together; within God's house we walked in fellowship.

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:56:5 @ In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?

rsv@Psalms:56:6 @ All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

rsv@Psalms:56:7 @ They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,

rsv@Psalms:56:9 @ Thou hast kept count of my tossings; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?

rsv@Psalms:56:12 @ in God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?

rsv@Psalms:56:13 @ My vows to thee I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@56:14) For thou hast delivered my soul from death, yea, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. ]

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:57:3 @ I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfils his purpose for me.

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:58:5 @ They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

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: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:59:5 @ for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse thyself, come to my help, and see!

rsv@Psalms:59:6 @ Thou, LORD God of hosts, art God of Israel. Awake to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:59:10 @ O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.

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:59:14 @ 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:60:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@Psalms:60:2 @ 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:60:4 @ Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things; thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.

rsv@Psalms:60:5 @ Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee, to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:60:6 @ That thy beloved may be delivered, give victory by thy right hand and answer us!

rsv@Psalms:60:10 @ Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

rsv@Psalms:61:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:61:2 @ Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;

rsv@Psalms:61:3 @ from the end of the earth I call to thee, when my heart is faint. Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;

rsv@Psalms:61:4 @ for thou art my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.

rsv@Psalms:61:5 @ Let me dwell in thy tent for ever! Oh to be safe under the shelter of thy wings! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:61:7 @ Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!

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:62:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:62:4 @ How long will you set upon a man to shatter him, all of you, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

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:62:10 @ 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:62:12 @ Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God; [ (Psalms strkjv@62:13) and that to thee, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For thou dost requite a man according to his work. ]

rsv@Psalms:63:9 @ My soul clings to thee; thy right hand upholds me.

rsv@Psalms:63:10 @ But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

rsv@Psalms:63:11 @ they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals. [ (Psalms strkjv@63:12) But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall glory; for the mouths of liars will be stopped. ]

rsv@Psalms:64:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:64:4 @ who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

rsv@Psalms:64:6 @ They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see us?

rsv@Psalms:64:9 @ Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will wag their heads.

rsv@Psalms:65:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:65:2 @ Praise is due to thee, O God, in Zion; and to thee shall vows be performed,

rsv@Psalms:65:3 @ O thou who hearest prayer! To thee shall all flesh come

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:65:9 @ 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:65:13 @ 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:66:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Songs. A Psalm.

rsv@Psalms:66:2 @ Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;

rsv@Psalms:66:3 @ sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!

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:66:7 @ He turned the sea into dry land; men passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,

rsv@Psalms:66:12 @ Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction on our loins;

rsv@Psalms:66:13 @ thou didst let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet thou hast brought us forth to a spacious place.

rsv@Psalms:66:14 @ I will come into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows,

rsv@Psalms:66:16 @ I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:66:18 @ I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.

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:67:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:67:2 @ May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Songs.

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:68:10 @ Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;

rsv@Psalms:68:18 @ With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.

rsv@Psalms:68:21 @ Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

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:68:30 @ Because of thy temple at Jerusalem kings bear gifts to thee.

rsv@Psalms:68:32 @ Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.

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:69:2 @ Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

rsv@Psalms:69:3 @ I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

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:69:7 @ Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:69:9 @ I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.

rsv@Psalms:69:12 @ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

rsv@Psalms:69:14 @ But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy faithful help

rsv@Psalms:69:17 @ Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.

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:69:22 @ They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

rsv@Psalms:69:28 @ Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.

rsv@Psalms:70:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

rsv@Psalms:70:2 @ Be pleased, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!

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:70:5 @ May all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee! May those who love thy salvation say evermore, "God is great!" [ (Psalms strkjv@70:6) But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not tarry! ]

rsv@Psalms:71:1 @ In thee, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!

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:71:6 @ Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of thee.

rsv@Psalms:71:7 @ I have been as a portent to many; but thou art my strong refuge.

rsv@Psalms:71:10 @ For my enemies speak concerning me, those who watch for my life consult together,

rsv@Psalms:71:11 @ and say, "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him."

rsv@Psalms:71:12 @ O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

rsv@Psalms:71:13 @ May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.

rsv@Psalms:71:18 @ So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power

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:71:24 @ And my tongue will talk of thy righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disgraced who sought to do me hurt.

rsv@Psalms:72:2 @ Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!

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:72:9 @ May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!

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:73:2 @ Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.

rsv@Psalms:73:10 @ They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

rsv@Psalms:73:16 @ If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.

rsv@Psalms:73:17 @ But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

rsv@Psalms:73:18 @ until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.

rsv@Psalms:73:19 @ Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.

rsv@Psalms:73:21 @ They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.

rsv@Psalms:73:23 @ I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.

rsv@Psalms:73:25 @ Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.

rsv@Psalms:73:28 @ For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@73:29) But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works. ]

rsv@Psalms:74:3 @ Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thy heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where thou hast dwelt.

rsv@Psalms:74:4 @ Direct thy steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

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:74:11 @ How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?

rsv@Psalms:74:20 @ Do not deliver the soul of thy dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of thy poor for ever.

rsv@Psalms:74:22 @ Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise thy name.

rsv@Psalms:75:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:75:2 @ We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks; we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.

rsv@Psalms:75:4 @ When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:75:5 @ I say to the boastful, "Do not boast," and to the wicked, "Do not lift up your horn;

rsv@Psalms:75:9 @ For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, with foaming wine, well mixed; and he will pour a draught from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.

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:76:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:76:6 @ The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.

rsv@Psalms:76:10 @ when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]

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:77:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:77:2 @ I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me.

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:77:10 @ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:12 @ I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.

rsv@Psalms:78:2 @ Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

rsv@Psalms:78:4 @ things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.

rsv@Psalms:78:5 @ We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.

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:78:7 @ that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,

rsv@Psalms:78:9 @ and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

rsv@Psalms:78:11 @ They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

rsv@Psalms:78:17 @ He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

rsv@Psalms:78:25 @ and he rained down upon them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.

rsv@Psalms:78:27 @ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;

rsv@Psalms:78:37 @ But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

rsv@Psalms:78:38 @ Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:78:45 @ He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

rsv@Psalms:78:47 @ He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

rsv@Psalms:78:49 @ He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

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:78:55 @ And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.

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:78:62 @ and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

rsv@Psalms:78:63 @ He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.

rsv@Psalms:78:67 @ And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.

rsv@Psalms:78:71 @ He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

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:79:2 @ O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

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:79:4 @ They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

rsv@Psalms:79:5 @ We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.

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:79:12 @ Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!

rsv@Psalms:79:13 @ Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord! [ (Psalms strkjv@79:14) Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise. ]

rsv@Psalms:80:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

rsv@Psalms:80:3 @ before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!

rsv@Psalms:80:4 @ Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

rsv@Psalms:80:6 @ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

rsv@Psalms:80:8 @ Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

rsv@Psalms:80:10 @ Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

rsv@Psalms:80:12 @ it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.

rsv@Psalms:80:16 @ the stock which thy right hand planted.

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:81:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:81:2 @ Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

rsv@Psalms:81:9 @ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

rsv@Psalms:81:10 @ There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

rsv@Psalms:81:12 @ "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.

rsv@Psalms:81:13 @ So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

rsv@Psalms:81:14 @ O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

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:82:3 @ "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:82:4 @ Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

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:83:4 @ They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.

rsv@Psalms:83:10 @ Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,

rsv@Psalms:83:18 @ Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace. [ (Psalms strkjv@83:19) Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the LORD, art the Most High over all the earth. ]

rsv@Psalms:84:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

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:84:6 @ Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

rsv@Psalms:84:8 @ They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

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:85:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

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:85:6 @ Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?

rsv@Psalms:85:9 @ Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

rsv@Psalms:86:4 @ be gracious to me, O Lord, for to thee do I cry all the day.

rsv@Psalms:86:5 @ Gladden the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

rsv@Psalms:86:6 @ For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on thee.

rsv@Psalms:86:7 @ Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication.

rsv@Psalms:86:12 @ Teach me thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.

rsv@Psalms:86:13 @ I give thanks to thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever.

rsv@Psalms:86:14 @ For great is thy steadfast love toward me; thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

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:86:17 @ Turn to me and take pity on me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. [ (Psalms strkjv@86:18) Show me a sign of thy favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because thou, LORD, hast helped me and comforted me. ]

rsv@Psalms:88:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

rsv@Psalms:88:3 @ Let my prayer come before thee, incline thy ear to my cry!

rsv@Psalms:88:4 @ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:88:5 @ I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,

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:88:10 @ my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O LORD; I spread out my hands to thee.

rsv@Psalms:88:11 @ Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]

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:88:18 @ 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:89:4 @ Thou hast said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant:

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:89:17 @ who exult in thy name all the day, and extol thy righteousness.

rsv@Psalms:89:19 @ For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:89:20 @ Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one, and say: "I have set the crown upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people.

rsv@Psalms:89:27 @ He shall cry to me, `ou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'

rsv@Psalms:89:31 @ If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,

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:89:45 @ Thou hast removed the scepter from his hand, and cast his throne to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:89:50 @ Lord, where is thy steadfast love of old, which by thy faithfulness thou didst swear to David?

rsv@Psalms:90:3 @ Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

rsv@Psalms:90:4 @ Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"

rsv@Psalms:90:10 @ For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.

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:90:12 @ Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

rsv@Psalms:90:13 @ So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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:91:2 @ will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."

rsv@Psalms:91:11 @ For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.

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:92:4 @ to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.

rsv@Psalms:92:8 @ that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

rsv@Psalms:92:15 @ 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:94:2 @ Rise up, O judge of the earth; render to the proud their deserts!

rsv@Psalms:94:13 @ to give him respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:94:15 @ for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

rsv@Psalms:94:21 @ They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

rsv@Psalms:95:1 @ O come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

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:95:7 @ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!

rsv@Psalms:95:9 @ when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

rsv@Psalms:96:1 @ O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!

rsv@Psalms:96:2 @ Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.

rsv@Psalms:96:4 @ For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

rsv@Psalms:96:7 @ Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!

rsv@Psalms:96:8 @ Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!

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:97:7 @ All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.

rsv@Psalms:97:12 @ Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!

rsv@Psalms:98:2 @ O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.

rsv@Psalms:98:3 @ The LORD has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.

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:99:5 @ Extol the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

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:99:8 @ O LORD our God, thou didst answer them; thou wast a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.

rsv@Psalms:99:9 @ Extol the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!

rsv@Psalms:100:2 @ Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands!

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:101:2 @ I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to thee, O LORD, I will sing.

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:101:7 @ 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:102:2 @ Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to thee!

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:102:5 @ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread.

rsv@Psalms:102:6 @ Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.

rsv@Psalms:102:8 @ I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.

rsv@Psalms:102:13 @ But thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:102:14 @ Thou wilt arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.

rsv@Psalms:102:15 @ For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.

rsv@Psalms:102:19 @ Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:

rsv@Psalms:102:21 @ to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;

rsv@Psalms:102:23 @ when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:103:8 @ He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:103:9 @ The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:103:11 @ He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.

rsv@Psalms:103:12 @ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

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:103:19 @ to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

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:104:6 @ Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

rsv@Psalms:104:7 @ At thy rebuke they fled; at the sound of thy thunder they took to flight.

rsv@Psalms:104:8 @ The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou didst appoint for them.

rsv@Psalms:104:11 @ they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.

rsv@Psalms:104:14 @ Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,

rsv@Psalms:104:15 @ and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.

rsv@Psalms:104:17 @ In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.

rsv@Psalms:104:19 @ Thou hast made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

rsv@Psalms:104:23 @ Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

rsv@Psalms:104:26 @ There go the ships, and Leviathan which thou didst form to sport in it.

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:104:32 @ who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!

rsv@Psalms:104:33 @ I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

rsv@Psalms:104:34 @ May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in 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:105:9 @ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

rsv@Psalms:105:10 @ which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

rsv@Psalms:105:11 @ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance."

rsv@Psalms:105:13 @ wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

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:105:22 @ to instruct his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

rsv@Psalms:105:23 @ Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

rsv@Psalms:105:25 @ He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

rsv@Psalms:105:29 @ He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.

rsv@Psalms:105:39 @ He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.

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:106:4 @ Remember me, O LORD, when thou showest favor to thy people; help me when thou deliverest them;

rsv@Psalms:106:14 @ But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

rsv@Psalms:106:23 @ 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:106:26 @ Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

rsv@Psalms:106:28 @ Then they attached themselves to the Ba'al of Pe'or, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

rsv@Psalms:106:29 @ they provoked the LORD to anger with their doings, and a plague broke out among them.

rsv@Psalms:106:30 @ Then Phin'ehas stood up and interposed, and the plague was stayed.

rsv@Psalms:106:31 @ And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation for ever.

rsv@Psalms:106:35 @ but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.

rsv@Psalms:106:36 @ They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

rsv@Psalms:106:37 @ They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

rsv@Psalms:106:38 @ they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

rsv@Psalms:106:41 @ he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.

rsv@Psalms:106:42 @ Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

rsv@Psalms:106:45 @ He remembered for their sake his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:106:46 @ He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.

rsv@Psalms:106:47 @ Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise.

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:107:4 @ 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:107:7 @ he led them by a straight way, till they reached a city to dwell in.

rsv@Psalms:107:8 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:107:12 @ Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.

rsv@Psalms:107:13 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:15 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

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:107:21 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

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:107:26 @ They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;

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:107:31 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:107:32 @ Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

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:107:42 @ 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:108:11 @ Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

rsv@Psalms:109:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:109:3 @ For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

rsv@Psalms:109:7 @ Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial.

rsv@Psalms:109:12 @ May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

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:109:26 @ I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.

rsv@Psalms:109:27 @ Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love!

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:109:31 @ With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. [ (Psalms strkjv@109:32) For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death. ]

rsv@Psalms:110:2 @ The LORD says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool."

rsv@Psalms:110:4 @ 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:111:1 @ Prasie the LORD. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.

rsv@Psalms:111:4 @ He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.

rsv@Psalms:111:8 @ they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.

rsv@Psalms:111:9 @ He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name!

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:113:3 @ From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the LORD is to be praised!

rsv@Psalms:113:8 @ to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.

rsv@Psalms:114:8 @ who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

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:115:16 @ The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

rsv@Psalms:115:17 @ The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any that go down into silence.

rsv@Psalms:116:2 @ Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

rsv@Psalms:116:7 @ Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

rsv@Psalms:116:12 @ What shall I render to the LORD for all his bounty to me?

rsv@Psalms:116:14 @ I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.

rsv@Psalms:116:17 @ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

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:118:6 @ With the LORD on my side I do not fear. What can man do to me?

rsv@Psalms:118:7 @ The LORD is on my side to help me; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.

rsv@Psalms:118:8 @ It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

rsv@Psalms:118:9 @ It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

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:118:18 @ The LORD has chastened me sorely, but he has not given me over to death.

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:118:22 @ The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

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:118:28 @ Thou art my God, and I will give thanks to thee; thou art my God, I will extol thee.

rsv@Psalms:118:29 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:119:4 @ Thou hast commanded thy precepts to be kept diligently.

rsv@Psalms:119:6 @ Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:9 @ How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to thy word.

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:119:28 @ My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:31 @ I cleave to thy testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame!

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:119:38 @ Confirm to thy servant thy promise, which is for those who fear thee.

rsv@Psalms:119:41 @ Let thy steadfast love come to me, O LORD, thy salvation according to thy promise;

rsv@Psalms:119:46 @ I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;

rsv@Psalms:119:49 @ Remember thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast made me hope.

rsv@Psalms:119:56 @ This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:57 @ The LORD is my portion; I promise to keep thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:58 @ I entreat thy favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to thy promise.

rsv@Psalms:119:59 @ When I think of thy ways, I turn my feet to thy testimonies;

rsv@Psalms:119:60 @ I hasten and do not delay to keep thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:62 @ At midnight I rise to praise thee, because of thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:65 @ Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according to thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:72 @ The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

rsv@Psalms:119:76 @ Let thy steadfast love be ready to comfort me according to thy promise to thy servant.

rsv@Psalms:119:77 @ Let thy mercy come to me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.

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:119:85 @ Godless men have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to thy law.

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:119:96 @ I have seen a limit to all perfection, but thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

rsv@Psalms:119:101 @ I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:103 @ How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

rsv@Psalms:119:105 @ Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

rsv@Psalms:119:106 @ I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:107 @ I am sorely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:112 @ I incline my heart to perform thy statutes for ever, to the end.

rsv@Psalms:119:116 @ Uphold me according to thy promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!

rsv@Psalms:119:121 @ I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

rsv@Psalms:119:124 @ Deal with thy servant according to thy steadfast love, and teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:126 @ It is time for the LORD to act, for thy law has been broken.

rsv@Psalms:119:130 @ The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

rsv@Psalms:119:132 @ Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is thy wont toward those who love thy name.

rsv@Psalms:119:133 @ Keep steady my steps according to thy promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.

rsv@Psalms:119:146 @ I cry to thee; save me, that I may observe thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:154 @ Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to thy promise!

rsv@Psalms:119:156 @ Great is thy mercy, O LORD; give me life according to thy justice.

rsv@Psalms:119:157 @ Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:159 @ Consider how I love thy precepts! Preserve my life according to thy steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:119:169 @ Let my cry come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:170 @ Let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according to thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:172 @ My tongue will sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are right.

rsv@Psalms:119:173 @ Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:120:2 @ In my distress I cry to the LORD, that he may answer me:

rsv@Psalms:120:3 @ "Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

rsv@Psalms:120:4 @ What shall be given to you? And what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?

rsv@Psalms:120:7 @ Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace. [ (Psalms strkjv@120:8) I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war! ]

rsv@Psalms:121:2 @ I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?

rsv@Psalms:122:2 @ I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!"

rsv@Psalms:122:4 @ Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together,

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:122:8 @ Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers!"

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:123:4 @ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. [ (Psalms strkjv@123:5) Too long our soul has been sated with the scorn of those who are at ease, the contempt of the proud. ]

rsv@Psalms:124:5 @ then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;

rsv@Psalms:124:7 @ Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!

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:125:5 @ Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts! [ (Psalms strkjv@125:6) But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel! ]

rsv@Psalms:126:2 @ When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

rsv@Psalms:126:3 @ Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

rsv@Psalms:126:5 @ Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb!

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:129:6 @ May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

rsv@Psalms:129:7 @ Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

rsv@Psalms:130:2 @ Out of the depths I cry to thee, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:130:3 @ Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!

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:132:3 @ how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

rsv@Psalms:132:4 @ "I will not enter my house or get into my bed;

rsv@Psalms:132:5 @ I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

rsv@Psalms:132:8 @ "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!"

rsv@Psalms:132:9 @ Arise, O LORD, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might.

rsv@Psalms:132:12 @ The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

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: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:135:3 @ Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for he is gracious!

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:135:12 @ and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.

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:136:13 @ to him who divided the Red Sea in sunder, 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:136:22 @ a heritage to Israel his servant, 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:137:3 @ For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

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: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:139:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:139:5 @ Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

rsv@Psalms:139:7 @ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.

rsv@Psalms:139:9 @ If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!

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:139:14 @ For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.

rsv@Psalms:139:18 @ How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

rsv@Psalms:140:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:140:4 @ They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:140:5 @ 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:140:7 @ I say to the LORD, Thou art my God; give ear to the voice of my supplications, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:140:11 @ Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into pits, no more to rise!

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:141:2 @ I call upon thee, O LORD; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call to thee!

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:141:7 @ When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that the word of the LORD is true.

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:142:2 @ I cry with my voice to the LORD, with my voice I make supplication to the LORD,

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:142:6 @ I cry to thee, O LORD; I say, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

rsv@Psalms:142:7 @ Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me! [ (Psalms strkjv@142:8) Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name! The righteous will surround me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with 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:143:3 @ Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

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:143:7 @ I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. [Selah]

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:143:9 @ Let me hear in the morning of thy steadfast love, for in thee I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to thee I lift up my soul.

rsv@Psalms:143:10 @ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies! I have fled to thee for refuge!

rsv@Psalms:143:11 @ Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God! Let thy good spirit lead me on a level path!

rsv@Psalms:144:6 @ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains that they smoke!

rsv@Psalms:144:10 @ I will sing a new song to thee, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to thee,

rsv@Psalms:144:11 @ who givest victory to kings, who rescuest David thy servant.

rsv@Psalms:144:14 @ may our garners be full, providing all manner of store; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

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:145:4 @ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

rsv@Psalms:145:5 @ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

rsv@Psalms:145:9 @ The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:145:10 @ The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

rsv@Psalms:145:11 @ All thy works shall give thanks to thee, O LORD, and all thy saints shall bless thee!

rsv@Psalms:145:13 @ to make known to the sons of men thy mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of thy kingdom.

rsv@Psalms:145:16 @ The eyes of all look to thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

rsv@Psalms:145:19 @ The LORD is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

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:146:4 @ When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

rsv@Psalms:146:7 @ who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

rsv@Psalms:146:9 @ 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:146:10 @ The LORD will reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!

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:147:6 @ The LORD lifts up the downtrodden, he casts the wicked to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:147:7 @ Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God upon the lyre!

rsv@Psalms:147:9 @ He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.

rsv@Psalms:147:15 @ He sends forth his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.

rsv@Psalms:147:19 @ He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel.

rsv@Psalms:148:8 @ fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command!

rsv@Psalms:148:12 @ Young men and maidens together, old men and children!

rsv@Psalms:148:14 @ He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:149:1 @ Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful!

rsv@Psalms:149:3 @ Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with timbrel and lyre!

rsv@Psalms:149:4 @ For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

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@Proverbs:1:4 @ that prudence may be given to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth--

rsv@Proverbs:1:6 @ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

rsv@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

rsv@Proverbs:1:12 @ like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

rsv@Proverbs:1:16 @ for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

rsv@Proverbs:1:21 @ on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

rsv@Proverbs:1:23 @ Give heed to my reproof; behold, I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.

rsv@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

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:1:33 @ but he who listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of evil."

rsv@Proverbs:2:2 @ making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to 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:2:10 @ for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

rsv@Proverbs:2:13 @ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

rsv@Proverbs:2:18 @ for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;

rsv@Proverbs:2:19 @ none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.

rsv@Proverbs:2:20 @ So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:3:8 @ It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

rsv@Proverbs:3:18 @ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.

rsv@Proverbs:3:27 @ Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

rsv@Proverbs:3:28 @ Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"--when you have it with you.

rsv@Proverbs:3:32 @ for the perverse man is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence.

rsv@Proverbs:3:34 @ Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

rsv@Proverbs:4:4 @ he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live;

rsv@Proverbs:4:9 @ She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."

rsv@Proverbs:4:20 @ My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

rsv@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.

rsv@Proverbs:4:26 @ Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.

rsv@Proverbs:4:27 @ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

rsv@Proverbs:5:1 @ My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;

rsv@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

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:5:7 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

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:5:13 @ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

rsv@Proverbs:5:22 @ The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

rsv@Proverbs:6:3 @ then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.

rsv@Proverbs:6:6 @ Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

rsv@Proverbs:6:10 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

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:6:24 @ to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

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:7:4 @ Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;

rsv@Proverbs:7:5 @ to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

rsv@Proverbs:7:8 @ passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

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:7:15 @ so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.

rsv@Proverbs:7:20 @ he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."

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:7:24 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

rsv@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

rsv@Proverbs:8:3 @ beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

rsv@Proverbs:8:4 @ "To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.

rsv@Proverbs:8:7 @ for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

rsv@Proverbs:8:9 @ They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

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:8:32 @ And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

rsv@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

rsv@Proverbs:9:3 @ She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,

rsv@Proverbs:9:4 @ "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who is without sense she says,

rsv@Proverbs:9:9 @ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.

rsv@Proverbs:9:11 @ For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

rsv@Proverbs:9:13 @ A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no shame.

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:9:15 @ calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,

rsv@Proverbs:9:16 @ "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him who is without sense she says,

rsv@Proverbs:9:17 @ "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."

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:10:8 @ The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a prating fool will come to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:10:16 @ The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

rsv@Proverbs:10:17 @ He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

rsv@Proverbs:10:20 @ The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the mind of the wicked is of little worth.

rsv@Proverbs:10:23 @ It is like sport to a fool to do wrong, but wise conduct is pleasure to a man of understanding.

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:10:31 @ The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

rsv@Proverbs:11:1 @ A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:11:7 @ When the wicked dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nought.

rsv@Proverbs:11:8 @ The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead.

rsv@Proverbs:11:20 @ Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:11:27 @ He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.

rsv@Proverbs:11:29 @ He who troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:12:8 @ A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of perverse mind is despised.

rsv@Proverbs:12:12 @ The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin, but the root of the righteous stands firm.

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:12:18 @ There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

rsv@Proverbs:12:19 @ Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

rsv@Proverbs:12:22 @ Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:12:24 @ The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

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:13:3 @ He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:13:7 @ One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

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:13:22 @ 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:13:25 @ The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

rsv@Proverbs:14:8 @ The wisdom of a prudent man is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

rsv@Proverbs:14:12 @ There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

rsv@Proverbs:14:21 @ He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but happy is he who is kind to the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:14:23 @ In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.

rsv@Proverbs:14:29 @ He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

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:14:34 @ 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:15:4 @ A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

rsv@Proverbs:15:8 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:15:9 @ The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:15:12 @ A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:15:18 @ A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

rsv@Proverbs:15:21 @ Folly is a joy to him who has no sense, but a man of understanding walks aright.

rsv@Proverbs:15:23 @ To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

rsv@Proverbs:15:24 @ The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.

rsv@Proverbs:15:26 @ The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, the words of the pure are pleasing to him.

rsv@Proverbs:15:28 @ The mind of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

rsv@Proverbs:16:1 @ The plans of the mind belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:16:3 @ Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

rsv@Proverbs:16:5 @ Every one who is arrogant is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

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:16:12 @ It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:16:16 @ To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

rsv@Proverbs:16:19 @ It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

rsv@Proverbs:16:20 @ He who gives heed to the word will prosper, and happy is he who trusts in the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:16:22 @ Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it, but folly is the chastisement of fools.

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:16:25 @ There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

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:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly from the LORD.

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:17:10 @ A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

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:17:16 @ Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom, when he has no mind?

rsv@Proverbs:17:20 @ A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:17:21 @ A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.

rsv@Proverbs:17:23 @ A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

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:17:26 @ To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good; to flog noble men is wrong.

rsv@Proverbs:18:1 @ He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.

rsv@Proverbs:18:5 @ It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.

rsv@Proverbs:18:7 @ A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.

rsv@Proverbs:18:8 @ The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

rsv@Proverbs:18:9 @ He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

rsv@Proverbs:18:10 @ The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

rsv@Proverbs:18:18 @ The lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.

rsv@Proverbs:18:21 @ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

rsv@Proverbs:18:24 @ There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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:19:6 @ Many seek the favor of a generous man, and every one is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

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:19:13 @ A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

rsv@Proverbs:19:15 @ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

rsv@Proverbs:19:17 @ He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.

rsv@Proverbs:19:19 @ A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

rsv@Proverbs:19:20 @ Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

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:19:27 @ Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to stray from the words of knowledge.

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:20:3 @ It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

rsv@Proverbs:20:10 @ Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:20:13 @ Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

rsv@Proverbs:20:15 @ There is gold, and abundance of costly stones; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

rsv@Proverbs:20:17 @ Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

rsv@Proverbs:20:23 @ Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

rsv@Proverbs:20:25 @ It is a snare for a man to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making his vows.

rsv@Proverbs:21:3 @ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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:21:7 @ The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

rsv@Proverbs:21:9 @ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

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:21:15 @ When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.

rsv@Proverbs:21:19 @ It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.

rsv@Proverbs:21:23 @ He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:21:25 @ The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.

rsv@Proverbs:21:31 @ The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.

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:22:2 @ The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.

rsv@Proverbs:22:14 @ The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

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:22:17 @ Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;

rsv@Proverbs:22:19 @ That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.

rsv@Proverbs:22:21 @ to show you what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?

rsv@Proverbs:22:24 @ Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

rsv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

rsv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;

rsv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

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:23:7 @ for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. "Eat and drink!" he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

rsv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

rsv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

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:23:30 @ Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.

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:24:6 @ for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

rsv@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:24:8 @ He who plans to do evil will be called a mischief-maker.

rsv@Proverbs:24:9 @ The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

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:24:13 @ My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

rsv@Proverbs:24:14 @ Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

rsv@Proverbs:24:15 @ Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;

rsv@Proverbs:24:24 @ He who says to the wicked, "You are innocent," will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations;

rsv@Proverbs:24:29 @ Do not say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done."

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:25:2 @ It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

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:25:8 @ do not hastily bring into court; for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

rsv@Proverbs:25:12 @ Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

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:25:15 @ With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

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:25:21 @ If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

rsv@Proverbs:25:23 @ The north wind brings forth rain; and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

rsv@Proverbs:25:24 @ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

rsv@Proverbs:25:25 @ Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

rsv@Proverbs:25:27 @ It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

rsv@Proverbs:25:28 @ A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

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:26:8 @ 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:26:11 @ Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.

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:26:21 @ As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

rsv@Proverbs:26:22 @ The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

rsv@Proverbs:26:27 @ He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back upon him who starts it rolling.

rsv@Proverbs:26:28 @ A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:27:1 @ Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

rsv@Proverbs:27:3 @ A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

rsv@Proverbs:27:7 @ He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

rsv@Proverbs:27:9 @ Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:27:10 @ Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

rsv@Proverbs:27:16 @ to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand.

rsv@Proverbs:27:19 @ As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.

rsv@Proverbs:27:23 @ Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds;

rsv@Proverbs:27:24 @ for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

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:28:14 @ Blessed is the man who fears the LORD always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:28:18 @ He who walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is perverse in his ways will fall into a pit.

rsv@Proverbs:28:20 @ A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:28:21 @ To show partiality is not good; but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.

rsv@Proverbs:28:23 @ He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

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:29:4 @ By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who exacts gifts ruins it.

rsv@Proverbs:29:11 @ A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

rsv@Proverbs:29:12 @ If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:29:13 @ The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

rsv@Proverbs:29:15 @ The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

rsv@Proverbs:29:17 @ Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:29:22 @ A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger causes much transgression.

rsv@Proverbs:29:27 @ An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but he whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:30:1 @ The words of Agur son of Jakeh of Massa. The man says to Ith'i-el, to Ith'i-el and Ucal:

rsv@Proverbs:30:2 @ Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

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:30:7 @ Two things I ask of thee; deny them not to me before I die:

rsv@Proverbs:30:10 @ Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

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:30:18 @ Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

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:31:6 @ Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

rsv@Proverbs:31:19 @ She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

rsv@Proverbs:31:20 @ She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.

rsv@Proverbs:31:24 @ She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers girdles to the merchant.

rsv@Proverbs:31:25 @ Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

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:31:30 @ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

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:1:11 @ 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:1:13 @ 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:1:16 @ 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: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:2:3 @ 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:2:6 @ I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

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:2:14 @ 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:2:24 @ 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:2:26 @ 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:3:2 @ 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:3:18 @ 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:3:20 @ 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:4:4 @ 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:4:6 @ Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

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:4:14 @ 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: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:5:4 @ 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:5:6 @ 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:5:9 @ But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.

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:5:13 @ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ 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:5:18 @ 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: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:6:4 @ For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

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:6:10 @ 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: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:7:5 @ It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ Do not give heed to all the things that men say, lest you hear your servant cursing you;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ 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:7:27 @ Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, "What are you doing?"

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ 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:8:14 @ 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:9:9 @ 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:9:13 @ I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

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:10:8 @ 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:10:14 @ 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: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:11:5 @ 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:11:7 @ Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.

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: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:12:5 @ 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:12:7 @ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

rsv@Songs:1:4 @ Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

rsv@Songs:1:9 @ I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.

rsv@Songs:1:13 @ My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

rsv@Songs:1:14 @ My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Enge'di.

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:2:4 @ He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

rsv@Songs:2:10 @ My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away;

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:4:4 @ Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.

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:4:11 @ Your lips distil nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

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:5:1 @ I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

rsv@Songs:5:2 @ I slept, but my heart was awake. Hark! my beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."

rsv@Songs:5:4 @ My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.

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:5:6 @ I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

rsv@Songs:5:7 @ The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those watchmen of the walls.

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:6:2 @ 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:6:9 @ 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: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:7:11 @ 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: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:8:10 @ 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@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why will you still be smitten, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

rsv@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.

rsv@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomor'rah!

rsv@Isaiah:1:11 @ "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

rsv@Isaiah:1:12 @ "When you come to appear before me, who requires of you this trampling of my courts?

rsv@Isaiah:1:13 @ Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and the calling of assemblies-- I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.

rsv@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.

rsv@Isaiah:1:16 @ Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

rsv@Isaiah:1:17 @ learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

rsv@Isaiah:1:18 @ "Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

rsv@Isaiah:1:23 @ 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:1:26 @ 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:1:28 @ But rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

rsv@Isaiah:1:31 @ And the strong shall become tow, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.

rsv@Isaiah:2:2 @ 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:2:7 @ Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

rsv@Isaiah:2:8 @ Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.

rsv@Isaiah:2:10 @ 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:2:15 @ against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

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:3:5 @ 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:3:9 @ 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:3:11 @ Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

rsv@Isaiah:3:13 @ The LORD has taken his place to contend, he stands to judge his people.

rsv@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

rsv@Isaiah:3:16 @ 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:4:6 @ It will be for a shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

rsv@Isaiah:5:2 @ 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:5:5 @ And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

rsv@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

rsv@Isaiah:5:11 @ 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:5:13 @ Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

rsv@Isaiah:5:18 @ 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:5:30 @ 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:6:2 @ Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

rsv@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory."

rsv@Isaiah:6:6 @ Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

rsv@Isaiah:6:7 @ And he touched my mouth, and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

rsv@Isaiah:6:9 @ And he said, "Go, and say to this people: `Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.'

rsv@Isaiah:7:1 @ In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

rsv@Isaiah:7:2 @ When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with E'phraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

rsv@Isaiah:7:3 @ And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go forth to meet Ahaz, you and She'ar-jash'ub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field,

rsv@Isaiah:7:4 @ and say to him, `Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remali'ah.

rsv@Isaiah:7:7 @ thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.

rsv@Isaiah:7:8 @ For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years E'phraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.)

rsv@Isaiah:7:10 @ Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz,

rsv@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test."

rsv@Isaiah:7:13 @ And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?

rsv@Isaiah:7:15 @ He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

rsv@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.

rsv@Isaiah:7:23 @ In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.

rsv@Isaiah:7:25 @ and as for all the hills which used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

rsv@Isaiah:8:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large tablet and write upon it in common characters, `Belonging to Ma'her-shal'al-hash-baz.'"

rsv@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I got reliable witnesses, Uri'ah the priest and Zechari'ah the son of Jeberechi'ah, to attest for me.

rsv@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Ma'her-shal'al-hash-baz;

rsv@Isaiah:8:4 @ for before the child knows how to cry `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Sama'ria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

rsv@Isaiah:8:5 @ The LORD spoke to me again:

rsv@Isaiah:8:8 @ and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck; and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Imman'u-el."

rsv@Isaiah:8:10 @ Take counsel together, but it will come to nought; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

rsv@Isaiah:8:11 @ For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:

rsv@Isaiah:8:14 @ 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:8:19 @ And when they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

rsv@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

rsv@Isaiah:8:22 @ and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

rsv@Isaiah:9:1 @ But there will be no gloom for her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zeb'ulun and the land of Naph'tali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:9:6 @ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

rsv@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

rsv@Isaiah:9:10 @ "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:9:13 @ The people did not turn to him who smote them, nor seek the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:9:21 @ Manas'seh E'phraim, and E'phraim Manas'seh, and together they are against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:10:1 @ Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

rsv@Isaiah:10:2 @ to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

rsv@Isaiah:10:3 @ What will you do on the day of punishment, in the storm which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

rsv@Isaiah:10:4 @ Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

rsv@Isaiah:10:6 @ 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:10:16 @ 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:10:21 @ A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

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:10:28 @ he has come to Ai'ath; he has passed through Migron, at Michmash he stores his baggage;

rsv@Isaiah:11:6 @ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

rsv@Isaiah:11:7 @ The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

rsv@Isaiah:11:10 @ In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall be glorious.

rsv@Isaiah:11:11 @ In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

rsv@Isaiah:11:14 @ 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:12:1 @ You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou wast angry with me, thy anger turned away, and thou didst comfort me.

rsv@Isaiah:12:4 @ And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations, proclaim that his name is exalted.

rsv@Isaiah:12:5 @ "Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:13:2 @ On a bare hill raise a signal, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

rsv@Isaiah:13:3 @ I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

rsv@Isaiah:13:4 @ Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.

rsv@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

rsv@Isaiah:13:9 @ 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:13:14 @ And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land.

rsv@Isaiah:13:22 @ Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.

rsv@Isaiah:14:1 @ The LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and aliens will join them and will cleave to the house of Jacob.

rsv@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female slaves; they will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.

rsv@Isaiah:14:3 @ When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

rsv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.

rsv@Isaiah:14:9 @ Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:14:10 @ All of them will speak and say to you: `You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'

rsv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.

rsv@Isaiah:14:12 @ "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

rsv@Isaiah:14:13 @ You said in your heart, `I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north;

rsv@Isaiah:14:15 @ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit.

rsv@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;

rsv@Isaiah:14:19 @ but you are cast out, away from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a dead body trodden under foot.

rsv@Isaiah: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:15:5 @ 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:15:8 @ 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: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:16:4 @ 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:16:8 @ 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:16:12 @ And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

rsv@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD says, "In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble."

rsv@Isaiah:17:1 @ An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

rsv@Isaiah:17:6 @ Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten-- two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the LORD God of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:17:7 @ In that day men will regard their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel;

rsv@Isaiah:17:8 @ they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the Ashe'rim or the altars of incense.

rsv@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.

rsv@Isaiah: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:18:6 @ They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them.

rsv@Isaiah:18:7 @ At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:19:1 @ An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:4 @ and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; and a fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Isaiah:19:9 @ 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:19:17 @ And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians; every one to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose which the LORD of hosts has purposed against them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of the Sun.

rsv@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

rsv@Isaiah:19:20 @ It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry to the LORD because of oppressors he will send them a savior, and will defend and deliver them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:21 @ And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians; and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and burnt offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:22 @ And the LORD will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will heed their supplications and heal them.

rsv@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

rsv@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and took it,--

rsv@Isaiah:20:4 @ 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:21:2 @ 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:21:4 @ My mind reels, horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

rsv@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman, let him announce what he sees.

rsv@Isaiah:21:8 @ Then he who saw cried: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.

rsv@Isaiah:21:9 @ And, behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the images of her gods he has shattered to the ground."

rsv@Isaiah:21:10 @ O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.

rsv@Isaiah:21:11 @ The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Se'ir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"

rsv@Isaiah:21:14 @ To the thirsty bring water, meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.

rsv@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

rsv@Isaiah:22:1 @ The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

rsv@Isaiah:22:2 @ you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.

rsv@Isaiah:22:3 @ All your rulers have fled together, without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

rsv@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore I said: "Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."

rsv@Isaiah:22:5 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

rsv@Isaiah:22:7 @ 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:22:10 @ 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:22:15 @ Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:

rsv@Isaiah:22:16 @ What have you to do here and whom have you here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself, you who hew a tomb on the height, and carve a habitation for yourself in the rock?

rsv@Isaiah:22:18 @ and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master's house.

rsv@Isaiah:22:21 @ and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

rsv@Isaiah:22:23 @ And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

rsv@Isaiah:22:24 @ And they will hang on him the whole weight of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

rsv@Isaiah:23:1 @ The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or haven! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.

rsv@Isaiah:23:5 @ When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.

rsv@Isaiah:23:6 @ Pass over to Tarshish, wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

rsv@Isaiah:23:7 @ Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle afar?

rsv@Isaiah:23:8 @ Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

rsv@Isaiah:23:9 @ The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:23:11 @ He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.

rsv@Isaiah:23:12 @ And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, pass over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest."

rsv@Isaiah:23:13 @ Behold the land of the Chalde'ans! This is the people; it was not Assyria. They destined Tyre for wild beasts. They erected their siegetowers, they razed her palaces, they made her a ruin.

rsv@Isaiah:23:15 @ In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

rsv@Isaiah:23:17 @ At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her hire, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:23:18 @ Her merchandise and her hire will be dedicated to the LORD; it will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:24:2 @ 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:24:4 @ The earth mourns and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.

rsv@Isaiah:24:9 @ No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

rsv@Isaiah:24:12 @ Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.

rsv@Isaiah:24:15 @ Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treacherous deal very treacherously."

rsv@Isaiah:24:18 @ 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:24:22 @ They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.

rsv@Isaiah: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:25:11 @ And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim; but the LORD will lay low his pride together with the skill of his hands.

rsv@Isaiah:25:12 @ And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

rsv@Isaiah:26:5 @ For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

rsv@Isaiah:26:10 @ 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:26:14 @ 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:26:21 @ For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.

rsv@Isaiah:27:4 @ I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.

rsv@Isaiah:27:6 @ In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.

rsv@Isaiah:27:9 @ 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:27:12 @ In that day from the river Euphra'tes to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:27:13 @ And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of E'phraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!

rsv@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he will cast down to the earth with violence.

rsv@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people;

rsv@Isaiah:28:6 @ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

rsv@Isaiah:28:9 @ "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:28:11 @ Nay, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the LORD will speak to this people,

rsv@Isaiah:28:12 @ to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear.

rsv@Isaiah:28:13 @ Therefore the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

rsv@Isaiah:28:15 @ 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:28:19 @ As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

rsv@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

rsv@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Pera'zim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; to do his deed-- strange is his deed! and to work his work-- alien is his work!

rsv@Isaiah:29:1 @ Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.

rsv@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.

rsv@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I will encamp against you round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.

rsv@Isaiah:29:11 @ And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

rsv@Isaiah:29:12 @ And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot read."

rsv@Isaiah:29:15 @ 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:29:20 @ 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:29:24 @ And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."

rsv@Isaiah:30:1 @ "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

rsv@Isaiah:30:2 @ who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

rsv@Isaiah:30:3 @ Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

rsv@Isaiah:30:5 @ 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:30:8 @ 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:30:13 @ 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:30:17 @ A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

rsv@Isaiah:30:18 @ Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you; therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

rsv@Isaiah:30:19 @ Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

rsv@Isaiah:30:21 @ And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

rsv@Isaiah:30:22 @ Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them, "Begone!"

rsv@Isaiah:30:25 @ And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

rsv@Isaiah:30:27 @ 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:30:32 @ 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:31:3 @ The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

rsv@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus the LORD said to me, As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called forth against him is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

rsv@Isaiah:31:6 @ Turn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, O people of Israel.

rsv@Isaiah:31:8 @ "And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

rsv@Isaiah:32:4 @ The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.

rsv@Isaiah:32:5 @ The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honorable.

rsv@Isaiah:32:6 @ For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

rsv@Isaiah:32:7 @ The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

rsv@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.

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:33:1 @ Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

rsv@Isaiah:33:2 @ O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

rsv@Isaiah:33:12 @ And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."

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:33:18 @ Your mind will muse on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?"

rsv@Isaiah:33:19 @ You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.

rsv@Isaiah: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:34:9 @ And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.

rsv@Isaiah:34:10 @ Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

rsv@Isaiah:34:14 @ 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:34:17 @ 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:35:2 @ 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:35:4 @ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."

rsv@Isaiah:35:5 @ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

rsv@Isaiah:35:6 @ then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

rsv@Isaiah:35:10 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

rsv@Isaiah:36:1 @ In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki'ah, Sennach'erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

rsv@Isaiah:36:2 @ And the king of Assyria sent the Rab'shakeh from Lachish to King Hezeki'ah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field.

rsv@Isaiah:36:3 @ And there came out to him Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

rsv@Isaiah:36:4 @ And the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Say to Hezeki'ah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?

rsv@Isaiah:36:6 @ Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

rsv@Isaiah:36:7 @ But if you say to me, "We rely on the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezeki'ah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar"?

rsv@Isaiah:36:8 @ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.

rsv@Isaiah:36:10 @ Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"

rsv@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eli'akim, Shebna, and Jo'ah said to the Rab'shakeh, "Pray, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

rsv@Isaiah:36:12 @ But the Rab'shakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"

rsv@Isaiah:36:13 @ Then the Rab'shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

rsv@Isaiah:36:14 @ Thus says the king: `Do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

rsv@Isaiah:36:15 @ Do not let Hezeki'ah make you rely on the LORD by saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

rsv@Isaiah:36:16 @ Do not listen to Hezeki'ah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;

rsv@Isaiah:36:17 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

rsv@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezeki'ah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rab'shakeh.

rsv@Isaiah:37:1 @ When King Hezeki'ah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eli'akim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, clothed with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.

rsv@Isaiah:37:3 @ They said to him, "Thus says Hezeki'ah, `This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

rsv@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God heard the words of the Rab'shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"

rsv@Isaiah:37:5 @ When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,

rsv@Isaiah:37:6 @ Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, `Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

rsv@Isaiah:37:7 @ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"

rsv@Isaiah:37:9 @ Now the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezeki'ah, saying,

rsv@Isaiah:37:10 @ "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: `Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

rsv@Isaiah:37:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

rsv@Isaiah:37:14 @ Hezeki'ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezeki'ah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:37:15 @ And Hezeki'ah prayed to the LORD:

rsv@Isaiah:37:17 @ 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:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennach'erib king of Assyria,

rsv@Isaiah:37:24 @ 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:37:27 @ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

rsv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.'

rsv@Isaiah:37:33 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.

rsv@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:37:35 @ For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."

rsv@Isaiah:37:38 @ And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And E'sar-had'don his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover."

rsv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

rsv@Isaiah:38:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:

rsv@Isaiah:38:5 @ "Go and say to Hezeki'ah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

rsv@Isaiah:38:7 @ "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:

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:38:12 @ My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;

rsv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end.

rsv@Isaiah:38:15 @ 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:38:18 @ For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.

rsv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.

rsv@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."

rsv@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezeki'ah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"

rsv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Mer'odach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

rsv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezeki'ah welcomed them; and he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezeki'ah did not show them.

rsv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezeki'ah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" Hezeki'ah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."

rsv@Isaiah:39:4 @ He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezeki'ah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."

rsv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezeki'ah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

rsv@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:39:7 @ And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

rsv@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then said Hezeki'ah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days."

rsv@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

rsv@Isaiah:40:5 @ 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:40:9 @ 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:40:18 @ 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:40:21 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

rsv@Isaiah:40:22 @ It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

rsv@Isaiah:40:23 @ who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

rsv@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

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: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:41:6 @ Every one helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, "Take courage!"

rsv@Isaiah:41:9 @ you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off";

rsv@Isaiah:41:10 @ fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

rsv@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

rsv@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

rsv@Isaiah:41:17 @ When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

rsv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together;

rsv@Isaiah:41:20 @ that men may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

rsv@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.

rsv@Isaiah:41:23 @ Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.

rsv@Isaiah:41:27 @ I first have declared it to Zion, and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good tidings.

rsv@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:

rsv@Isaiah:42:6 @ "I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,

rsv@Isaiah:42:7 @ to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

rsv@Isaiah:42:8 @ I am the LORD, that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to graven images.

rsv@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."

rsv@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

rsv@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

rsv@Isaiah:42:12 @ Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.

rsv@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.

rsv@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

rsv@Isaiah:42:17 @ They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, "You are our gods."

rsv@Isaiah:42:21 @ The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

rsv@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

rsv@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?

rsv@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?

rsv@Isaiah:42:25 @ So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire round about, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

rsv@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,

rsv@Isaiah:43:9 @ 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:43:14 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chalde'ans will be turned to lamentations.

rsv@Isaiah:43:15 @ I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."

rsv@Isaiah:43:20 @ 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:43:26 @ Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

rsv@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.

rsv@Isaiah:43:28 @ Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

rsv@Isaiah:44:7 @ Who is like me? Let him proclaim it, let him declare and set it forth before me. Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be.

rsv@Isaiah:44:8 @ Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."

rsv@Isaiah:44:9 @ All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

rsv@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are but men; let them all assemble, let them stand forth, they shall be terrified, they shall be put to shame together.

rsv@Isaiah:44:13 @ 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:44:17 @ 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:44:19 @ 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:44:22 @ 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:44:27 @ who says to the deep, `Be dry, I will dry up your rivers';

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:45:8 @ "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I the LORD have created it.

rsv@Isaiah:45:9 @ "Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, `What are you making'? or `Your work has no handles'?

rsv@Isaiah:45:10 @ Woe to him who says to a father, `What are you begetting?' or to a woman, `With what are you in travail?'"

rsv@Isaiah:45:14 @ 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:45:16 @ All of them are put to shame and confounded, the makers of idols go in confusion together.

rsv@Isaiah:45:17 @ But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

rsv@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other.

rsv@Isaiah:45:19 @ I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, `Seek me in chaos.' I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.

rsv@Isaiah:45:20 @ "Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

rsv@Isaiah:45:21 @ Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

rsv@Isaiah:45:22 @ "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

rsv@Isaiah:45:23 @ By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: `To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.'

rsv@Isaiah:45:24 @ "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed, all who were incensed against him.

rsv@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary beasts.

rsv@Isaiah:46:2 @ They stoop, they bow down together, they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.

rsv@Isaiah:46:3 @ "Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;

rsv@Isaiah:46:4 @ even to your old age I am He, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

rsv@Isaiah:46:5 @ "To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?

rsv@Isaiah:46:6 @ Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

rsv@Isaiah:46:7 @ They lift it upon their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.

rsv@Isaiah:46:8 @ "Remember this and consider, recall it to mind, you transgressors,

rsv@Isaiah:46:11 @ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

rsv@Isaiah:46:12 @ "Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

rsv@Isaiah: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:47:5 @ Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chalde'ans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

rsv@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

rsv@Isaiah:47:7 @ You said, "I shall be mistress for ever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

rsv@Isaiah:47:9 @ 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:47:11 @ But evil shall come upon you, for which you cannot atone; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to expiate; and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

rsv@Isaiah:47:12 @ Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror.

rsv@Isaiah:47:14 @ Behold, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

rsv@Isaiah:47:15 @ Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one to save you.

rsv@Isaiah:48:3 @ "The former things I declared of old, they went forth from my mouth and I made them known; then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.

rsv@Isaiah:48:5 @ 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:48:11 @ For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

rsv@Isaiah:48:12 @ "Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am He, I am the first, and I am the last.

rsv@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

rsv@Isaiah:48:16 @ Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.

rsv@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

rsv@Isaiah:48:18 @ O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

rsv@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chalde'a, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"

rsv@Isaiah: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:49:3 @ And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

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:49:13 @ Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

rsv@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up your eyes round about and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament, you shall bind them on as a bride does.

rsv@Isaiah:49:19 @ "Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-- surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

rsv@Isaiah:49:20 @ The children born in the time of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: `The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.'

rsv@Isaiah:49:22 @ 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: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:50:4 @ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

rsv@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

rsv@Isaiah:50:7 @ For the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame;

rsv@Isaiah:50:8 @ he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

rsv@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who set brands alight! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the brands which you have kindled! This shall you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.

rsv@Isaiah:51:1 @ "Hearken to me, you who pursue deliverance, you who seek the LORD; look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were digged.

rsv@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him and made him many.

rsv@Isaiah:51:4 @ "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:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die like gnats; but my salvation will be for ever, and my deliverance will never be ended.

rsv@Isaiah:51:7 @ "Hearken to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not dismayed at their revilings.

rsv@Isaiah:51:8 @ For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my deliverance will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations."

rsv@Isaiah:51:10 @ Was it not thou that didst dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that didst make the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

rsv@Isaiah:51:11 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

rsv@Isaiah:51:13 @ and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

rsv@Isaiah:51:14 @ He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the Pit, neither shall his bread fail.

rsv@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have put my words in your mouth, and hid you in the shadow of my hand, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, `You are my people.'"

rsv@Isaiah:51:17 @ Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl of staggering.

rsv@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.

rsv@Isaiah:51:23 @ and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, `Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over."

rsv@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

rsv@Isaiah:52:4 @ 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:52:7 @ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."

rsv@Isaiah:52:8 @ Hark, your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion.

rsv@Isaiah:52:9 @ Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

rsv@Isaiah:52:11 @ Depart, depart, go out thence, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:52:14 @ As many were astonished at him-- his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men--

rsv@Isaiah:52:15 @ so shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand.

rsv@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

rsv@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

rsv@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

rsv@Isaiah:53:10 @ 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:54:3 @ For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.

rsv@Isaiah:54:4 @ "Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

rsv@Isaiah:54:9 @ "For this is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you.

rsv@Isaiah:54:11 @ "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:54:16 @ Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;

rsv@Isaiah:54:17 @ no weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, says the LORD."

rsv@Isaiah:55:1 @ "Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

rsv@Isaiah:55:2 @ Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.

rsv@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

rsv@Isaiah:55:4 @ Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

rsv@Isaiah:55:5 @ Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

rsv@Isaiah:55:7 @ let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

rsv@Isaiah:55:10 @ "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

rsv@Isaiah:55:11 @ so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

rsv@Isaiah:55:12 @ "For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

rsv@Isaiah:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut off."

rsv@Isaiah:56:3 @ Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from his people"; and let not the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

rsv@Isaiah:56:4 @ For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

rsv@Isaiah:56:6 @ "And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant--

rsv@Isaiah:56:7 @ these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

rsv@Isaiah:56:8 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered."

rsv@Isaiah:56:9 @ All you beasts of the field, come to devour-- all you beasts in the forest.

rsv@Isaiah:56:10 @ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

rsv@Isaiah:56:11 @ The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

rsv@Isaiah:56:12 @ "Come," they say, "let us get wine, let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

rsv@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity,

rsv@Isaiah:57:2 @ he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

rsv@Isaiah:57:4 @ 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:57:7 @ Upon a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and thither you went up to offer sacrifice.

rsv@Isaiah:57:8 @ Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your symbol; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a bargain for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.

rsv@Isaiah:57:9 @ You journeyed to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.

rsv@Isaiah:57:15 @ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

rsv@Isaiah:57:17 @ 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:57:19 @ Peace, peace, to the far and to the near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.

rsv@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

rsv@Isaiah: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:58:4 @ Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

rsv@Isaiah:58:5 @ Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?

rsv@Isaiah:58:6 @ "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

rsv@Isaiah:58:7 @ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

rsv@Isaiah:58:12 @ 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:59:3 @ 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:59:7 @ 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:59:16 @ 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:59:18 @ 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:59:20 @ "And he will come to Zion as Redeemer, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:60:3 @ And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

rsv@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up your eyes round about, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.

rsv@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then you shall see and be radiant, your heart shall thrill and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you, the rams of Nebai'oth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify my glorious house.

rsv@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

rsv@Isaiah:60:9 @ For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:10 @ Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

rsv@Isaiah:60:11 @ Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.

rsv@Isaiah:60:13 @ 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:60:19 @ 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:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

rsv@Isaiah:61:2 @ to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

rsv@Isaiah:61:3 @ to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

rsv@Isaiah:61:11 @ 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:62:8 @ 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:63:5 @ I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me victory, and my wrath upheld me.

rsv@Isaiah:63:7 @ 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:63:10 @ But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

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:63:14 @ 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: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:64:7 @ 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:65:1 @ I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that did not call on my name.

rsv@Isaiah:65:2 @ I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

rsv@Isaiah:65:3 @ a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;

rsv@Isaiah:65:4 @ who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

rsv@Isaiah:65:5 @ who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

rsv@Isaiah:65:6 @ Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay, yea, I will repay into their bosom

rsv@Isaiah:65:7 @ their iniquities and their fathers' iniquities together, says the LORD; because they burned incense upon the mountains and reviled me upon the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former doings."

rsv@Isaiah:65:9 @ I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah inheritors of my mountains; my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

rsv@Isaiah:65:10 @ Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.

rsv@Isaiah:65:12 @ I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes, and chose what I did not delight in."

rsv@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

rsv@Isaiah:65:15 @ You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but his servants he will call by a different name.

rsv@Isaiah:65:17 @ "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

rsv@Isaiah:65:25 @ 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:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brethren who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, `Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

rsv@Isaiah:66:6 @ "Hark, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!

rsv@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD; shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb? says your God.

rsv@Isaiah:66:12 @ 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:66:15 @ "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:66:17 @ "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, says the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:66:18 @ "For I know their works and their thoughts, and I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory,

rsv@Isaiah:66:19 @ and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

rsv@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their cereal offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

rsv@Isaiah:66:23 @ 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:1:2 @ to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:4 @ Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:1:5 @ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:7 @ But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, `I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command you you shall speak.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:8 @ Be not afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:10 @ See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:11 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see a rod of almond."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:12 @ Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:13 @ The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north."

rsv@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:1:16 @ 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:1:19 @ They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you."

rsv@Jeremiah:2:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:2:3 @ 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:2:7 @ And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:18 @ 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:2:24 @ 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:2:27 @ who say to a tree, `You are my father,' and to a stone, `You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, `Arise and save us!'

rsv@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:31 @ And you, O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, `We are free, we will come no more to thee'?

rsv@Jeremiah:2:33 @ "How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:35 @ you say, `I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, `I have not sinned.'

rsv@Jeremiah:2:36 @ How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

rsv@Jeremiah:2:37 @ From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:1 @ "If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:2 @ Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Have you not just now called to me, `My father, thou art the friend of my youth--

rsv@Jeremiah:3:5 @ will he be angry for ever, will he be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could."

rsv@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said to me in the days of King Josi'ah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?

rsv@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I thought, `After she has done all this she will return to me'; but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:8 @ She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:9 @ Because harlotry was so light to her, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:10 @ Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:3:11 @ And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, `Return, faithless Israel, says the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, says the LORD; I will not be angry for ever.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:14 @ 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:3:16 @ And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD." It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; it shall not be made again.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:17 @ At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:18 @ In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.

rsv@Jeremiah:3:20 @ 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:3:25 @ Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:1 @ "If you return, O Israel, says the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your abominations from my presence, and do not waver,

rsv@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, `Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!'

rsv@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:7 @ A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:9 @ "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:4:16 @ 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:4:22 @ "For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not."

rsv@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.

rsv@Jeremiah:4:29 @ 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: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:5:3 @ 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:5:5 @ I will go to the great, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the LORD, the law of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke, they had burst the bonds.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:7 @ "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlots.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithless to me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:5:13 @ The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'"

rsv@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver is like an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

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:5:22 @ 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:5:28 @ 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:5:31 @ 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:6:4 @ "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:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:12 @ 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:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:17 @ I set watchmen over you, saying, `Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, `We will not give heed.'

rsv@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Go not forth into the field, nor walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:7:2 @ "Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:8 @ "Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Ba'al, and go after other gods that you have not known,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, `We are delivered!'--only to go on doing all these abominations?

rsv@Jeremiah:7:12 @ Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because you have done all these things, says the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,

rsv@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:18 @ 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:7:21 @ 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:7:25 @ From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day;

rsv@Jeremiah:7:26 @ yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:27 @ "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:28 @ And you shall say to them, `This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:30 @ "For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter: for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.

rsv@Jeremiah:7:34 @ 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:8:5 @ Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I have given heed and listened, but they have not spoken aright; no man repents of his wickedness, saying, `What have I done?' Every one turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:8 @ "How can you say, `We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them?

rsv@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest every one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest every one deals falsely.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:8:14 @ 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:8:19 @ 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:8:22 @ 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:9:3 @ They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:5 @ 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:9:8 @ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:12 @ 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:9:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them poisonous water to drink.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilful women to come;

rsv@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

rsv@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

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:10:5 @ Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

rsv@Jeremiah:10:13 @ 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:10:20 @ 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:10:23 @ I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

rsv@Jeremiah:10:24 @ Correct me, O LORD, but in just measure; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:11:2 @ "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:3 @ You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

rsv@Jeremiah:11:4 @ which I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,

rsv@Jeremiah:11:5 @ that I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:6 @ And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:7 @ For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:8 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:9 @ Again the LORD said to me, "There is revolt among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:10 @ They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing evil upon them which they cannot escape; though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:12 @ Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:13 @ For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to burn incense to Ba'al.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:14 @ "Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:16 @ The LORD once called you, `A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit'; but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:17 @ The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Ba'al."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:18 @ The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then thou didst show me their evil deeds.

rsv@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."

rsv@Jeremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.

rsv@Jeremiah: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:12:3 @ 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:12:6 @ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; believe them not, though they speak fair words to you."

rsv@Jeremiah:12:7 @ "I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:8 @ My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:9 @ Is my heritage to me like a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:11 @ 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:12:14 @ Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage which I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:15 @ And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.

rsv@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, `As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Ba'al, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:1 @ Thus said the LORD to me, "Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:2 @ So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:3 @ And the word of the LORD came to me a second time,

rsv@Jeremiah:13:4 @ "Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:6 @ And after many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and take from there the waistcloth which I commanded you to hide there."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:7 @ Then I went to the Euphra'tes, and dug, and I took the waistcloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistcloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:13:10 @ This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this waistcloth, which is good for nothing.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:11 @ For as the waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:12 @ "You shall speak to them this word: `Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, `Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?'

rsv@Jeremiah:13:13 @ Then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:13:16 @ 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:13:18 @ Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

rsv@Jeremiah:13:19 @ The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:21 @ What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?

rsv@Jeremiah:13:23 @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

rsv@Jeremiah:13:25 @ 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:14:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

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:14:8 @ O thou hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land, like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?

rsv@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

rsv@Jeremiah:14:11 @ The LORD said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then I said: "Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, `You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:14:14 @ And the LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

rsv@Jeremiah:14:16 @ 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:15:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

rsv@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And when they ask you, `Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: "Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity."'

rsv@Jeremiah:15:3 @ "I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the LORD: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas'seh the son of Hezeki'ah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:5 @ "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

rsv@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:13 @ "Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:15 @ O LORD, thou knowest; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In thy forbearance take me not away; know that for thy sake I bear reproach.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Thy words were found, and I ate them, and thy words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

rsv@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:16:5 @ "For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament, or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, my steadfast love and mercy.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:7 @ No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead; nor shall any one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:8 @ You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will make to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

rsv@Jeremiah:16:10 @ "And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, `Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

rsv@Jeremiah:16:11 @ then you shall say to them: `Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

rsv@Jeremiah:16:12 @ and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;

rsv@Jeremiah:16:13 @ therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'

rsv@Jeremiah:16:15 @ 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:16:19 @ 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:17:3 @ 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:17:8 @ 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:17:10 @ "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."

rsv@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come!"

rsv@Jeremiah:17:16 @ I have not pressed thee to send evil, nor have I desired the day of disaster, thou knowest; that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not a terror to me; thou art my refuge in the day of evil.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil; destroy them with double destruction!

rsv@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus said the LORD to me: "Go and stand in the Benjamin Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,

rsv@Jeremiah:17:24 @ "`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:17:26 @ And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places round about Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephe'lah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, cereal offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:17:27 @ But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:18:2 @ "Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."

rsv@Jeremiah:18:3 @ So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:18:8 @ and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:10 @ and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:11 @ Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: `Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.'

rsv@Jeremiah:18:12 @ "But they say, `That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

rsv@Jeremiah:18:15 @ But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,

rsv@Jeremiah:18:16 @ making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at for ever. Every one who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words."

rsv@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to my plea.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:22 @ May a cry be heard from their houses, when thou bringest the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.

rsv@Jeremiah:18:23 @ Yet, thou, O LORD, knowest all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from thy sight. Let them be overthrown before thee; deal with them in the time of thine anger.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:2 @ and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:4 @ Because the people have forsaken me, and have profaned this place by burning incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

rsv@Jeremiah:19:5 @ and have built the high places of Ba'al to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Ba'al, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind;

rsv@Jeremiah:19:6 @ therefore, behold, days are coming, says the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:7 @ And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:12 @ Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

rsv@Jeremiah:19:13 @ The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah--all the houses upon whose roofs incense has been burned to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods--shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people:

rsv@Jeremiah:19:15 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words."

rsv@Jeremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:3 @ On the morrow, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on every side.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:5 @ Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them, and seize them, and carry them to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity; to Babylon you shall go; and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely."

rsv@Jeremiah:20:7 @ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:12 @ O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, "A son is born to you," making him very glad.

rsv@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

rsv@Jeremiah:21:1 @ This is the word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedeki'ah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchi'ah and Zephani'ah the priest, the son of Ma-asei'ah, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:21:2 @ "Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds, and will make him withdraw from us."

rsv@Jeremiah:21:3 @ Then Jeremiah said to them:

rsv@Jeremiah:21:4 @ "Thus you shall say to Zedeki'ah, `Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chalde'ans who are besieging you outside the walls; and I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:7 @ Afterward, says the LORD, I will give Zedeki'ah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them, or spare them, or have compassion.'

rsv@Jeremiah:21:8 @ "And to this people you shall say: `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:9 @ He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chalde'ans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.

rsv@Jeremiah:21:10 @ For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.'

rsv@Jeremiah:21:11 @ "And to the house of the king of Judah say, `Hear the word of the LORD,

rsv@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "`Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil doings.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:21:14 @ I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

rsv@Jeremiah:22:3 @ 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:22:6 @ For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "`You are as Gilead to me, as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:7 @ I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choicest cedars, and cast them into the fire.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:8 @ "`And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"

rsv@Jeremiah:22:10 @ 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:22:16 @ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:20 @ "Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry from Ab'arim, for all your lovers are destroyed.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:21 @ I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, `I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickedness.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:25 @ and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:26 @ I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.

rsv@Jeremiah:22:27 @ But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return."

rsv@Jeremiah:22:28 @ Is this man Coni'ah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land which they do not know?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:1 @ "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:2 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: "You have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:3 @ Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:12 @ 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:23:14 @ But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomor'rah."

rsv@Jeremiah:23:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land."

rsv@Jeremiah:23:16 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes; they speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, `It shall be well with you'; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, `No evil shall come upon you.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to perceive and to hear his word, or who has given heed to his word and listened?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:21 @ "I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

rsv@Jeremiah:23:27 @ who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams which they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Ba'al?

rsv@Jeremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, `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:23:35 @ Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, `What has the LORD answered?' or `What has the LORD spoken?'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:37 @ Thus you shall say to the prophet, `What has the LORD answered you?' or `What has the LORD spoken?'

rsv@Jeremiah:23:38 @ But if you say, `The burden of the LORD,' thus says the LORD, `Because you have said these words, "The burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, `The burden of the LORD,'"

rsv@Jeremiah:23:39 @ therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah: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:24:3 @ And the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten."

rsv@Jeremiah:24:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:24:5 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:6 @ I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:7 @ I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:9 @ I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

rsv@Jeremiah:24:10 @ And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their fathers."

rsv@Jeremiah:25:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon),

rsv@Jeremiah:25:2 @ which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

rsv@Jeremiah:25:3 @ "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:4 @ You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

rsv@Jeremiah:25:5 @ saying, `Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and wrong doings, and dwell upon the land which the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:6 @ do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:7 @ Yet you have not listened to me, says the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:10 @ 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:25:14 @ For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."

rsv@Jeremiah:25:15 @ Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:17 @ So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:

rsv@Jeremiah:25:18 @ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

rsv@Jeremiah:25:27 @ "Then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I am sending among you.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:28 @ "And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!

rsv@Jeremiah:25:29 @ For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:30 @ "You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: `The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:25:31 @ The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, says the LORD.'

rsv@Jeremiah:25:32 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!

rsv@Jeremiah:25:33 @ "And those slain by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:3 @ It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of their evil doings.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:4 @ You shall say to them, `Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:5 @ and to heed the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not heeded,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:8 @ 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:26:10 @ 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:26:14 @ But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:15 @ Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:16 @ Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:17 @ And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:18 @ "Micah of Mo'resheth prophesied in the days of Hezeki'ah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: `Thus says the LORD of hosts, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'

rsv@Jeremiah:26:19 @ Did Hezeki'ah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD repent of the evil which he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great evil upon ourselves."

rsv@Jeremiah:26:21 @ And when King Jehoi'akim, with all his warriors and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uri'ah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:22 @ Then King Jehoi'akim sent to Egypt certain men, Elna'than the son of Achbor and others with him,

rsv@Jeremiah:26:23 @ and they fetched Uri'ah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoi'akim, who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

rsv@Jeremiah:26:24 @ But the hand of Ahi'kam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Zedeki'ah the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:2 @ Thus the LORD said to me: "Make yourself thongs and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:3 @ Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedeki'ah king of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:4 @ Give them this charge for their masters: `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:

rsv@Jeremiah:27:5 @ "It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:6 @ Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnez'zar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:9 @ So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, `You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'

rsv@Jeremiah:27:10 @ For it is a lie which they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:11 @ But any nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to till it and dwell there, says the LORD."'"

rsv@Jeremiah:27:12 @ To Zedeki'ah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

rsv@Jeremiah:27:14 @ 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:27:20 @ 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:27:22 @ 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:28:9 @ As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet."

rsv@Jeremiah:28:10 @ Then the prophet Hanani'ah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and broke them.

rsv@Jeremiah:28:12 @ Sometime after the prophet Hanani'ah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:28:14 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke of servitude to Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:28:15 @ And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hanani'ah, "Listen, Hanani'ah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

rsv@Jeremiah: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:29:3 @ The letter was sent by the hand of Ela'sah the son of Shaphan and Gemari'ah the son of Hilki'ah, whom Zedeki'ah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnez'zar king of Babylon. It said:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:4 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:7 @ But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:8 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:9 @ for it is a lie which they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:10 @ "For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:11 @ For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:12 @ Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:14 @ 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:29:16 @ Thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:18 @ I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:19 @ because they did not heed my words, says the LORD, which I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the LORD.'--

rsv@Jeremiah:29:20 @ Hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:21 @ `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kola'iah and Zedeki'ah the son of Ma-asei'ah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:24 @ To Shemai'ah of Nehel'am you shall say:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:25 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephani'ah the son of Ma-asei'ah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:26 @ `The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoi'ada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and collar.

rsv@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of An'athoth who is prophesying to you?

rsv@Jeremiah:29:28 @ For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce."'"

rsv@Jeremiah:29:30 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:29:31 @ "Send to all the exiles, saying, `Thus says the LORD concerning Shemai'ah of Nehel'am: Because Shemai'ah has prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,

rsv@Jeremiah:29:32 @ therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemai'ah of Nehel'am and his descendants; he shall not have any one living among this people to see the good that I will do to my people, says the LORD, for he has talked rebellion against the LORD.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:30:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:30:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:3 @ For behold, days are coming, says the LORD, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the LORD, and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it."

rsv@Jeremiah:30:8 @ "And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break the yoke from off their neck, and I will burst their bonds, and strangers shall no more make servants of them.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:11 @ For I am with you to save you, says the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

rsv@Jeremiah:30:13 @ There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.

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:30:21 @ 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:31:3 @ 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:31:6 @ For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of E'phraim: `Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:31:8 @ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who is in travail, together; a great company, they shall return here.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:9 @ With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and E'phraim is my first-born.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

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:31:15 @ 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:31:17 @ There is hope for your future, says the LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:18 @ I have heard E'phraim bemoaning, `Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for thou art the LORD my God.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:21 @ "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:31:23 @ 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:31:26 @ Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

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:31:32 @ not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:34 @ 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:31:38 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the tower of Han'anel to the Corner Gate.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:39 @ And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Go'ah.

rsv@Jeremiah:31:40 @ The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be uprooted or overthrown any more for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:32:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedeki'ah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez'zar.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:3 @ For Zedeki'ah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, "Why do you prophesy and say, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:4 @ Zedeki'ah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chalde'ans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:5 @ and he shall take Zedeki'ah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, says the LORD; though you fight against the Chalde'ans, you shall not succeed'?"

rsv@Jeremiah:32:6 @ Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:32:7 @ Behold, Han'amel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, `Buy my field which is at An'athoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'

rsv@Jeremiah:32:8 @ Then Han'amel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, `Buy my field which is at An'athoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:9 @ "And I bought the field at An'athoth from Han'amel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:11 @ Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions, and the open copy;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:12 @ and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri'ah son of Mahsei'ah, in the presence of Han'amel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:16 @ "After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri'ah, I prayed to the LORD, saying:

rsv@Jeremiah:32:17 @ `Ah Lord GOD! It is thou who hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for thee,

rsv@Jeremiah:32:18 @ who showest steadfast love to thousands, but dost requite the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of hosts,

rsv@Jeremiah:32:19 @ great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of men, rewarding every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:20 @ who hast shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and hast made thee a name, as at this day.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:22 @ and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

rsv@Jeremiah:32:23 @ and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey thy voice or walk in thy law; they did nothing of all thou didst command them to do. Therefore thou hast made all this evil come upon them.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:24 @ Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans who are fighting against it. What thou didst speak has come to pass, and behold, thou seest it.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:25 @ Yet thou, O Lord GOD, hast said to me, "Buy the field for money and get witnesses"--though the city is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:32:26 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:32:27 @ "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too hard for me?

rsv@Jeremiah:32:28 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chalde'ans and into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:29 @ The Chalde'ans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs incense has been offered to Ba'al and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:30 @ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; the sons of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:31 @ This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight

rsv@Jeremiah:32:32 @ because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they did to provoke me to anger--their kings and their princes, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:33 @ They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:34 @ They set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:35 @ They built the high places of Ba'al in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:36 @ "Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, `It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence':

rsv@Jeremiah:32:37 @ Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:40 @ I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:43 @ Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:32:44 @ Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephe'lah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, says the LORD."

rsv@Jeremiah:33:1 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:2 @ "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it--the LORD is his name:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:3 @ Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:4 @ For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah which were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and before the sword:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:5 @ The Chalde'ans are coming in to fight and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall smite in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:6 @ Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:7 @ I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:9 @ And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:11 @ 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:33:14 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfil the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:15 @ In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:17 @ "For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

rsv@Jeremiah:33:18 @ and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn cereal offerings, and to make sacrifices for ever."

rsv@Jeremiah:33:19 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:21 @ then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.

rsv@Jeremiah:33:22 @ As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me."

rsv@Jeremiah:33:23 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:33:26 @ then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes, and will have mercy upon them."

rsv@Jeremiah:34:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:

rsv@Jeremiah:34:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedeki'ah king of Judah and say to him, `Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:3 @ You shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand; you shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you shall go to Babylon.'

rsv@Jeremiah:34:6 @ Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedeki'ah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

rsv@Jeremiah:34:8 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedeki'ah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,

rsv@Jeremiah:34:10 @ And they obeyed, all the princes and all the people who had entered into the covenant that every one would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again; they obeyed and set them free.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:11 @ But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:12 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:34:14 @ `At the end of six years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:15 @ You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

rsv@Jeremiah:34:16 @ but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:17 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, says the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:20 @ and I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:21 @ And Zedeki'ah king of Judah, and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you.

rsv@Jeremiah:34:22 @ Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:35:2 @ "Go to the house of the Re'chabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:3 @ So I took Ja-azani'ah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazzini'ah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Re'chabites.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:4 @ I brought them to the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdali'ah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Ma-asei'ah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:5 @ Then I set before the Re'chabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:8 @ 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:35:11 @ But when Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, `Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chalde'ans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:12 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:35:13 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:14 @ The command which Jon'adab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept; and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:15 @ I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, `Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.' But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

rsv@Jeremiah:35:17 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered."

rsv@Jeremiah:35:18 @ But to the house of the Re'chabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jon'adab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you,

rsv@Jeremiah:35:19 @ therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jon'adab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:1 @ In the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

rsv@Jeremiah:36:2 @ "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josi'ah until today.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:3 @ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:4 @ Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neri'ah, and Baruch wrote upon a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which he had spoken to him.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:5 @ And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, "I am debarred from going to the house of the LORD;

rsv@Jeremiah:36:6 @ so you are to go, and on a fast day in the hearing of all the people in the LORD's house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll which you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:9 @ 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:36:13 @ And Micai'ah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:14 @ Then all the princes sent Jehu'di the son of Nethani'ah, son of Shelemi'ah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, "Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neri'ah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:15 @ And they said to him, "Sit down and read it." So Baruch read it to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:16 @ When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear; and they said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:18 @ Baruch answered them, "He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:19 @ Then the princes said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are."

rsv@Jeremiah:36:20 @ So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and they reported all the words to the king.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:21 @ Then the king sent Jehu'di to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Eli'shama the secretary; and Jehu'di read it to the king and all the princes who stood beside the king.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:23 @ As Jehu'di read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:25 @ Even when Elna'than and Delai'ah and Gemari'ah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:26 @ And the king commanded Jerah'meel the king's son and Serai'ah the son of Az'ri-el and Shelemi'ah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:27 @ Now, after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:36:30 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoi'akim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.

rsv@Jeremiah:36:32 @ Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neri'ah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoi'akim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:2 @ But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD which he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:3 @ King Zedeki'ah sent Jehu'cal the son of Shelemi'ah, and Zephani'ah the priest, the son of Ma-asei'ah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:6 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

rsv@Jeremiah:37:7 @ "Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, `Behold, Pharaoh's army which came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:12 @ Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:13 @ When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Iri'jah the son of Shelemi'ah, son of Hanani'ah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chalde'ans."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:14 @ And Jeremiah said, "It is false; I am not deserting to the Chalde'ans." But Iri'jah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.

rsv@Jeremiah:37:16 @ When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells, and remained there many days,

rsv@Jeremiah:37:17 @ King Zedeki'ah sent for him, and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:18 @ Jeremiah also said to King Zedeki'ah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

rsv@Jeremiah:37:19 @ Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, `The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?

rsv@Jeremiah:37:20 @ Now hear, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there."

rsv@Jeremiah:37:21 @ So King Zedeki'ah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard; and a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:1 @ Now Shephati'ah the son of Mattan, Gedali'ah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemi'ah, and Pashhur the son of Malchi'ah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people,

rsv@Jeremiah:38:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chalde'ans shall live; he shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:3 @ Thus says the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Then the princes said to the king, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:6 @ So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchi'ah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:7 @ When E'bed-mel'ech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern--the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate--

rsv@Jeremiah:38:8 @ E'bed-mel'ech went from the king's house and said to the king,

rsv@Jeremiah:38:9 @ "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern; and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:11 @ 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:38:14 @ King Zedeki'ah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:15 @ Jeremiah said to Zedeki'ah, "If I tell you, will you not be sure to put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:16 @ Then King Zedeki'ah swore secretly to Jeremiah, "As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then Jeremiah said to Zedeki'ah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, If you will surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:18 @ But if you do not surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chalde'ans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:19 @ King Zedeki'ah said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chalde'ans, lest I be handed over to them and they abuse me."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:20 @ Jeremiah said, "You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:21 @ But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me:

rsv@Jeremiah:38:22 @ Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the princes of the king of Babylon and were saying, `Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mire, they turn away from you.'

rsv@Jeremiah:38:23 @ All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chalde'ans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon; and this city shall be burned with fire."

rsv@Jeremiah:38:24 @ Then Zedeki'ah said to Jeremiah, "Let no one know of these words and you shall not die.

rsv@Jeremiah:38:25 @ If the princes hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, `Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,'

rsv@Jeremiah:38:26 @ then you shall say to them, `I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

rsv@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they left off speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:4 @ When Zedeki'ah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:5 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued them, and overtook Zedeki'ah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence upon him.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:7 @ 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:39:14 @ sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:15 @ The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard:

rsv@Jeremiah:39:16 @ "Go, and say to E'bed-mel'ech the Ethiopian, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfil my words against this city for evil and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.

rsv@Jeremiah:39:17 @ But I will deliver you on that day, says the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:2 @ The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God pronounced this evil against this place;

rsv@Jeremiah:40:4 @ Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well; but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:5 @ If you remain, then return to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever you think it right to go." So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:6 @ Then Jeremiah went to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, at Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:7 @ When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,

rsv@Jeremiah:40:8 @ they went to Gedali'ah at Mizpah--Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah, Serai'ah the son of Tanhu'meth, the sons of Ephai the Netoph'athite, Jezani'ah the son of the Ma-ac'athite, they and their men.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:9 @ Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chalde'ans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:10 @ As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand for you before the Chalde'ans who will come to us; but as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken."

rsv@Jeremiah:40:12 @ then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedali'ah at Mizpah; and they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:13 @ Now Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedali'ah at Mizpah

rsv@Jeremiah:40:14 @ and said to him, "Do you know that Ba'alis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah to take your life?" But Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam would not believe them.

rsv@Jeremiah:40:15 @ Then Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah spoke secretly to Gedali'ah at Mizpah, "Let me go and slay Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

rsv@Jeremiah:40:16 @ But Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam said to Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah, "You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ish'mael."

rsv@Jeremiah:41:1 @ In the seventh month, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah, son of Eli'shama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,

rsv@Jeremiah:41:3 @ Ish'mael also slew all the Jews who were with Gedali'ah at Mizpah, and the Chalde'an soldiers who happened to be there.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:5 @ eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Sama'ria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing cereal offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:6 @ And Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, "Come in to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam."

rsv@Jeremiah:41:7 @ When they came into the city, Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah and the men with him slew them, and cast them into a cistern.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:8 @ But there were ten men among them who said to Ish'mael, "Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields." So he refrained and did not kill them with their companions.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:9 @ Now the cistern into which Ish'mael cast all the bodies of the men whom he had slain was the large cistern which King Asa had made for defense against Ba'asha king of Israel; Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah filled it with the slain.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:10 @ Then Ish'mael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebu'zarad'an, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam. Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:12 @ they took all their men and went to fight against Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah. They came upon him at the great pool which is in Gibeon.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:14 @ So all the people whom Ish'mael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:15 @ But Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah escaped from Joha'nan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:16 @ Then Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the leaders of the forces with him took all the rest of the people whom Ish'mael the son of Nethani'ah had carried away captive from Mizpah after he had slain Gedali'ah the son of Ahi'kam--soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Joha'nan brought back from Gibeon.

rsv@Jeremiah:41:17 @ And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt

rsv@Jeremiah: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:42:6 @ Whether it is good or evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."

rsv@Jeremiah:42:7 @ At the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:8 @ Then he summoned Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,

rsv@Jeremiah:42:9 @ and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him:

rsv@Jeremiah:42:10 @ If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent of the evil which I did to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:11 @ Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not fear him, says the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:14 @ and saying, `No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war, or hear the sound of the trumpet, or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,'

rsv@Jeremiah:42:15 @ then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,

rsv@Jeremiah:42:16 @ then the sword which you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow hard after you to Egypt; and there you shall die.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:17 @ All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; they shall have no remnant or survivor from the evil which I will bring upon them.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:18 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:19 @ The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, `Do not go to Egypt.' Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day

rsv@Jeremiah:42:20 @ that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, `Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says declare to us and we will do it.'

rsv@Jeremiah:42:21 @ And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

rsv@Jeremiah:42:22 @ Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live."

rsv@Jeremiah:43:1 @ When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,

rsv@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Azari'ah the son of Hoshai'ah and Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, `Do not go to Egypt to live there';

rsv@Jeremiah:43:3 @ but Baruch the son of Neri'ah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chalde'ans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon."

rsv@Jeremiah:43:4 @ So Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:43:5 @ But Joha'nan the son of Kare'ah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven--

rsv@Jeremiah:43:7 @ 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: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:44:3 @ because of the wickedness which they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to burn incense and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:4 @ Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!'

rsv@Jeremiah:44:5 @ But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their wickedness and burn no incense to other gods.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:7 @ And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:8 @ Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:10 @ They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:11 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, to cut off all Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:12 @ I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed; from the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine; and they shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:14 @ so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there; for they shall not return, except some fugitives."

rsv@Jeremiah:44:15 @ Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:

rsv@Jeremiah:44:16 @ "As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:17 @ But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:18 @ But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine."

rsv@Jeremiah:44:19 @ And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?"

rsv@Jeremiah:44:20 @ Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:

rsv@Jeremiah:44:21 @ "As for the incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember it? Did it not come into his mind?

rsv@Jeremiah:44:24 @ Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt,

rsv@Jeremiah:44:25 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, `We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her.' Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!

rsv@Jeremiah:44:28 @ And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

rsv@Jeremiah:44:29 @ This shall be the sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil:

rsv@Jeremiah:44:30 @ Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedeki'ah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life."

rsv@Jeremiah:45:1 @ The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neri'ah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoi'akim the son of Josi'ah, king of Judah:

rsv@Jeremiah:45:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:

rsv@Jeremiah:45:3 @ You said, `Woe is me! for the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.'

rsv@Jeremiah:45:4 @ Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up--that is, the whole land.

rsv@Jeremiah:45:5 @ And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not; for, behold, I am bringing evil upon all flesh, says the LORD; but I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go."

rsv@Jeremiah:46:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:10 @ That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:11 @ Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:12 @ The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."

rsv@Jeremiah:46:13 @ The word which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:

rsv@Jeremiah:46:16 @ 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:46:21 @ 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:46:24 @ The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame, she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north."

rsv@Jeremiah:46:26 @ I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:46:28 @ Fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will chasten you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."

rsv@Jeremiah:47:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.

rsv@Jeremiah:47:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

rsv@Jeremiah:47:3 @ At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,

rsv@Jeremiah:47:4 @ because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

rsv@Jeremiah:47:6 @ 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:48:7 @ 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:48:9 @ "Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

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:48:15 @ 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:48:20 @ Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:26 @ "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD; so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:27 @ Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

rsv@Jeremiah:48:34 @ "Heshbon and Ele-a'leh cry out; as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zo'ar to Horona'im and Eg'lath-shelish'iyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:35 @ And I will bring to an end in Moab, says the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and burns incense to his god.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:38 @ On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:39 @ How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are round about him."

rsv@Jeremiah:48:44 @ He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:45 @ "In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength; for a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, a flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:46 @ Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.

rsv@Jeremiah:48:47 @ Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:2 @ 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:49:5 @ 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:49:9 @ 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:49:12 @ 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:49:14 @ 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:49:24 @ Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:29 @ Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be borne away from them, and men shall cry to them: `Terror on every side!'

rsv@Jeremiah:49:32 @ Their camels shall become booty, their herds of cattle a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:34 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedeki'ah king of Judah.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:36 @ and I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; and I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.

rsv@Jeremiah:49:39 @ "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:50:4 @ "In those days and in that time, says the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come; and they shall seek the LORD their God.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:5 @ They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, `Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant which will never be forgotten.'

rsv@Jeremiah:50:6 @ "My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:11 @ "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you are wanton as a heifer at grass, and neigh like stallions,

rsv@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Raise a shout against her round about, she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her, do to her as she has done.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:16 @ Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:19 @ 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:50:25 @ The LORD has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:27 @ Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:28 @ "Hark! they flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:29 @ "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Jeremiah:50:32 @ 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:51:2 @ and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:9 @ 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:51:14 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:16 @ 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:51:26 @ No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the LORD.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:29 @ 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:51:35 @ The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chalde'a," let Jerusalem say.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:38 @ "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:40 @ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:47 @ "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:51:50 @ "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:51:53 @ 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:51:58 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nought, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."

rsv@Jeremiah:51:59 @ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Serai'ah the son of Neri'ah, son of Mahsei'ah, when he went with Zedeki'ah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Serai'ah was the quartermaster.

rsv@Jeremiah:51:61 @ And Jeremiah said to Serai'ah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,

rsv@Jeremiah:51:63 @ When you finish reading this book, bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphra'tes,

rsv@Jeremiah:51:64 @ and say, `Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the evil that I am bringing upon her.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:2 @ And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoi'akim had done.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:3 @ Surely because of the anger of the LORD things came to such a pass in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedeki'ah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:4 @ And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and they laid siege to it and built siegeworks against it round about.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:8 @ But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook Zedeki'ah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:9 @ Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence upon him.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:11 @ 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:52:15 @ 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:52:24 @ And the captain of the guard took Serai'ah the chief priest, and Zephani'ah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

rsv@Jeremiah:52:25 @ and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:26 @ And Nebu'zarad'an the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:27 @ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried captive out of its land.

rsv@Jeremiah:52:32 @ and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

rsv@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:1:7 @ 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:1:9 @ 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:1:10 @ The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; yea, she has seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom thou didst forbid to enter thy congregation.

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:1:12 @ "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

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:1:21 @ "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:2:1 @ How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

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:2:6 @ 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:2:10 @ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have cast dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

rsv@Lamentations:2:12 @ They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom.

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:2:18 @ 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:2:22 @ 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:3:9 @ he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

rsv@Lamentations:3:10 @ He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;

rsv@Lamentations:3:11 @ he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;

rsv@Lamentations:3:13 @ He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;

rsv@Lamentations:3:14 @ I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.

rsv@Lamentations:3:21 @ But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

rsv@Lamentations:3:22 @ The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

rsv@Lamentations:3:25 @ The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

rsv@Lamentations:3:30 @ let him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.

rsv@Lamentations:3:32 @ but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

rsv@Lamentations:3:34 @ To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

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:3:41 @ Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

rsv@Lamentations:3:53 @ they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;

rsv@Lamentations:3:56 @ thou didst hear my plea, `ot close thine ear to my cry for help!'

rsv@Lamentations:3:59 @ Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge thou my cause.

rsv@Lamentations:3:64 @ "Thou wilt requite them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

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:4:4 @ 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:4:11 @ The LORD gave full vent to his wrath, he poured out his hot anger; and he kindled a fire in Zion, which consumed its foundations.

rsv@Lamentations:4:14 @ They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.

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:4:21 @ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dweller in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

rsv@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.

rsv@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

rsv@Lamentations:5:8 @ Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

rsv@Lamentations:5:11 @ Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

rsv@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

rsv@Lamentations:5:13 @ Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.

rsv@Lamentations:5:15 @ The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.

rsv@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

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:1:3 @ 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:1:9 @ their wings touched one another; they went every one straight forward, without turning as they went.

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:1:21 @ 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:1:23 @ And under the firmament their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another; and each creature had two wings covering its body.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:24 @ And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of a host; when they stood still, they let down their wings.

rsv@Ezekiel:1:25 @ And there came a voice from above the firmament over their heads; when they stood still, they let down their wings.

rsv@Ezekiel:2:1 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak with you."

rsv@Ezekiel:2:2 @ And when he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet; and I heard him speaking to me.

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:2:4 @ The people also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them; and you shall say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD.'

rsv@Ezekiel:2:5 @ And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

rsv@Ezekiel:2:7 @ And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house.

rsv@Ezekiel:2:8 @ "But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth, and eat what I give you."

rsv@Ezekiel:2:9 @ And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and, lo, a written scroll was in it;

rsv@Ezekiel:3:1 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."

rsv@Ezekiel:3:2 @ So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:3 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it." Then I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:4 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:5 @ For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel--

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:3:7 @ But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they are not willing to listen to me; because all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stubborn heart.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:10 @ Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

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:3:16 @ And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:3:18 @ If I say to the wicked, `You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; 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:3:22 @ And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, "Arise, go forth into the plain, and there I will speak with you."

rsv@Ezekiel:3:23 @ So I arose and went forth into the plain; and, lo, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:24 @ But the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself within your house.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:26 @ and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house.

rsv@Ezekiel:3:27 @ But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD'; he that will hear, let him hear; and he that will refuse to hear, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

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:4:5 @ For I assign to you a number of days, three hundred and ninety days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment; so long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.

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:4:8 @ And, behold, I will put cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.

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:4:15 @ Then he said to me, "See, I will let you have cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread."

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:5:2 @ A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and a third part you shall take and strike with the sword round about the city; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.

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:5:7 @ 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:5:10 @ Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

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:5:15 @ You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations round about you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious chastisements--I, the LORD, have spoken--

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:6:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:6:9 @ 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:6:10 @ And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."

rsv@Ezekiel:6:13 @ And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the mountain tops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols.

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:7:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:7:2 @ "And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now the end is upon you, and I will let loose my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will punish you for all your abominations.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:7 @ Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land; the time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting upon the mountains.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:8 @ Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways; and I will punish you for all your abominations.

rsv@Ezekiel:7:9 @ And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who smite.

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:7:13 @ For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For wrath is upon all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.

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:7:19 @ They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing; their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

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:7:21 @ And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

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:7:27 @ 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:8:6 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations."

rsv@Ezekiel:8:7 @ And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:8 @ Then said he to me, "Son of man, dig in the wall"; and when I dug in the wall, lo, there was a door.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And he said to me, "Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here."

rsv@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Ja-azani'ah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.

rsv@Ezekiel:8:12 @ 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:8:13 @ He said also to me, "You will see still greater abominations which they commit."

rsv@Ezekiel:8:14 @ Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

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:8:17 @ Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too slight a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence, and provoke me further to anger? Lo, they put the branch to their nose.

rsv@Ezekiel:9:2 @ 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:9:4 @ And the LORD said to him, "Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it."

rsv@Ezekiel:9:5 @ And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity;

rsv@Ezekiel:9:6 @ slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.

rsv@Ezekiel:9:7 @ Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth." So they went forth, and smote in the city.

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:10:2 @ 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:10:7 @ And a cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

rsv@Ezekiel:10:8 @ The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.

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: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:11:5 @ And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, "Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

rsv@Ezekiel:11:9 @ And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.

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:11:14 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:11:19 @ 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:11:23 @ And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

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:12:1 @ The word of the LORD came to 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:12:3 @ for they are a rebellious house. Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight; you shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:4 @ You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile; and you shall go forth yourself at evening in their sight, as men do who must go into exile.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:8 @ In the morning the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:12:9 @ "Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, `What are you doing?'

rsv@Ezekiel:12:10 @ Say to them, `Thus says the Lord GOD: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.'

rsv@Ezekiel:12:11 @ Say, `I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.'

rsv@Ezekiel:12:13 @ And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chalde'ans, yet he shall not see it; and he shall die there.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:14 @ And I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will unsheathe the sword after them.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:17 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:12:21 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:12:23 @ Tell them therefore, `Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.' But say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision.

rsv@Ezekiel:12:26 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:12:28 @ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word which I speak will be performed, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:13:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:13:3 @ Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

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:13:6 @ They have spoken falsehood and divined a lie; they say, `Says the LORD,' when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfil their word.

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:13:12 @ and when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, `Where is the daubing with which you daubed it?'

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:13:14 @ And I will break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare; when it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

rsv@Ezekiel:13:15 @ Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who daubed it,

rsv@Ezekiel:13:18 @ and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people, and keep other souls alive for your profit?

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:13:22 @ Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his wicked way to save his life;

rsv@Ezekiel:14:1 @ Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me; and sat before me.

rsv@Ezekiel:14:2 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:14:6 @ "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:14:12 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:14:19 @ 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:14:21 @ "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:14:22 @ Yet, if there should be left in it any survivors to lead out sons and daughters, when they come forth to you, and you see their ways and their doings, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.

rsv@Ezekiel:15:1 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:15:4 @ Lo, it is given to the fire for fuel; when the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful 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:16:1 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:16:2 @ "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

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:16:4 @ And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel string was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor swathed with bands.

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:16:6 @ "And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood, `Live,

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:16:16 @ 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:16:18 @ and you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

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:16:21 @ that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

rsv@Ezekiel:16:23 @ "And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD),

rsv@Ezekiel:16:25 @ at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself to any passer-by, and multiplying your harlotry.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:26 @ You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your harlotry, to provoke me to anger.

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:16:33 @ 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:16:46 @ And your elder sister is Sama'ria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:47 @ Yet you were not content to walk in their ways, or do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

rsv@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have made judgment favorable to your sisters; because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

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:16:54 @ that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to 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:16:61 @ Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed when I take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:17:2 @ "Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel;

rsv@Ezekiel:17:3 @ say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar;

rsv@Ezekiel:17:4 @ he broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade, and set it in a city of merchants.

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:17:11 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me:

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:17:13 @ And he took one of the seed royal and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. (The chief men of the land he had taken away,

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:17:17 @ 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:17:20 @ I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason he has committed against me.

rsv@Ezekiel:17:21 @ And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind; and you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken."

rsv@Ezekiel:17:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it out; I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain;

rsv@Ezekiel:18:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me again:

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:18:9 @ walks in my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances--he is righteous, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:18:12 @ oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

rsv@Ezekiel:18:15 @ 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:18:18 @ As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.

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:18:30 @ "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:19:3 @ And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:4 @ The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:5 @ When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:6 @ He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.

rsv@Ezekiel:19:9 @ With hooks they put him in a cage, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

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:19:12 @ But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off, its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:1 @ In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:2 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:20:3 @ "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:5 @ and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:6 @ On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.

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:20:9 @ But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they dwelt, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out 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:20:13 @ 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:20:18 @ "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:20:27 @ "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this again your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.

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:20:29 @ (I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? So its name is called Bamah to this day.)

rsv@Ezekiel:20:30 @ 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:20:35 @ 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:20:39 @ "As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:42 @ And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country which I swore to give to your fathers.

rsv@Ezekiel:20:44 @ And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:20:45 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:21:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:21:3 @ and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.

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:21:7 @ 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:21:8 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

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:21:11 @ So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be handled; it is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.

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:21:14 @ "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:21:16 @ Cut sharply to right and left where your edge is directed.

rsv@Ezekiel:21:18 @ The word of the LORD came to me again:

rsv@Ezekiel:21:19 @ "Son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them shall come forth from the same land. And make a signpost, make it at the head of the way to a city;

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:21:23 @ But to them it will seem like a false divination; they have sworn solemn oaths; but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be captured.

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:21:30 @ Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

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:22:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

rsv@Ezekiel:22:2 @ "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominable deeds.

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:22:9 @ 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:22:12 @ 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:22:17 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:22:18 @ "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:20 @ As men gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire upon it in order to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

rsv@Ezekiel:22:23 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:22:24 @ "Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed, or rained upon in the day of indignation.

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:22:29 @ 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:23:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:23:9 @ Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:13 @ And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:16 @ When she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them in Chalde'a.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:17 @ And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she was polluted by them, she turned from them in disgust.

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:23:27 @ 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:23:28 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust;

rsv@Ezekiel:23:31 @ You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:36 @ The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oho'lah and Ohol'ibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:37 @ For they have committed adultery, and blood is upon their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery; and they have even offered up to them for food the sons whom they had borne to me.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:38 @ Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my sabbaths.

rsv@Ezekiel:23:39 @ For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And lo, this is what they did in my house.

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:23:44 @ 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:23:47 @ 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:24:1 @ In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:24:2 @ "Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:3 @ And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Set on the pot, set it on, pour in water also;

rsv@Ezekiel:24:6 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:7 @ For the blood she has shed is still in the midst of her; she put it on the bare rock, she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:8 @ To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:9 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:14 @ I the LORD have spoken; it shall come to pass, I will do it; I will not go back, I will not spare, I will not repent; according to your ways and your doings I will judge you, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:24:15 @ Also the word of the LORD came to me:

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:24:18 @ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

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:24:20 @ Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me:

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:24:26 @ on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news.

rsv@Ezekiel:24:27 @ On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer dumb. So you will be a sign to them; and they will know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:25:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:25:7 @ 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:25:10 @ 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:25:14 @ And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.

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:26:1 @ In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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:26:4 @ 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:26:5 @ She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD; and she shall become a spoil to the nations;

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:26:11 @ 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:26:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?

rsv@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they will raise a lamentation over you, and say to you, `How you have vanished from the seas, O city renowned, that was mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland!

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:26:21 @ I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more; though you be sought for, you will never be found again, says the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:27:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:27:9 @ 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:27:11 @ The men of Arvad and Helech were upon your walls round about, and men of Gamad were in your towers; they hung their shields upon your walls round about; they made perfect your beauty.

rsv@Ezekiel:27:14 @ Beth-togar'mah exchanged for your wares horses, war horses, and mules.

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:27:26 @ Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

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:27:36 @ The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever.'"

rsv@Ezekiel:28:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:28:2 @ "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, `I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god--

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:28:8 @ They shall thrust you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:28:12 @ "Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

rsv@Ezekiel:28:13 @ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

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:28:16 @ 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:28:20 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:28:21 @ "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against 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:28:24 @ "And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.

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:29:1 @ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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:29:6 @ "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel;

rsv@Ezekiel:29:7 @ when they grasped you with the hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to shake;

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:29:14 @ 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:29:16 @ And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."

rsv@Ezekiel:29:17 @ In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:29:18 @ "Son of man, Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against it.

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:29:21 @ "On that day I will cause a horn to spring forth to the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:30:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:30:4 @ A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:6 @ "Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:8 @ Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.

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:30:10 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon.

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:30:16 @ And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and its walls broken down.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:17 @ The young men of On and of Pibe'seth shall fall by the sword; and the women shall go into captivity.

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:30:20 @ In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:30:21 @ "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and lo, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.

rsv@Ezekiel:30:25 @ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall; and they shall know that I am the LORD. When I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, he shall stretch it out against the land of Egypt;

rsv@Ezekiel:31:1 @ In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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:31:7 @ It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.

rsv@Ezekiel:31:10 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,

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:31:14 @ 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:31:17 @ They also shall go down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yea, those who dwelt under its shadow among the nations shall perish.

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:32:1 @ In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:32:2 @ "Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:4 @ And I will cast you on the ground, on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the air to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.

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:32:9 @ "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:32:12 @ 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:32:14 @ Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:32:17 @ In the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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:32:24 @ "Elam is there, and all her multitude about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the nether world, who spread terror in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

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:32:27 @ 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:33:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:33:2 @ "Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman;

rsv@Ezekiel:33:8 @ If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your 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:33:11 @ Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

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:33:20 @ Yet you say, `The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."

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:33:22 @ Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:23 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:33:30 @ "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:33:31 @ And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.

rsv@Ezekiel:33:32 @ And, lo, you are to them like one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:34:6 @ My sheep were scattered, they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

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:34:13 @ 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:34:20 @ "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

rsv@Ezekiel:34:28 @ They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them; they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

rsv@Ezekiel:35:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:35:5 @ Because you cherished perpetual enmity, and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment;

rsv@Ezekiel:35:11 @ therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among you, when I judge you.

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: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:36:4 @ 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:36:8 @ "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:36:9 @ For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

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:36:13 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: Because men say to you, `You devour men, and you bereave your nation 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:36:16 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:36:21 @ But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:22 @ "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

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:36:26 @ 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:36:28 @ You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

rsv@Ezekiel:36:32 @ It is not for your sake that I will act, says the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

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:36:37 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their men like a flock.

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:37:9 @ 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:37:15 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Ezekiel:37:17 @ and join them together into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

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:37:21 @ 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:37:22 @ and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.

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:37:25 @ They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children and their children's children shall dwell there for ever; and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.

rsv@Ezekiel:38:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:

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:38:4 @ 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:38:10 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme

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:38:20 @ 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: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:39:10 @ 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:39:11 @ "On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers east of the sea; it will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried; it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:12 @ For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:13 @ All the people of the land will bury them; and it will redound to their honor on the day that I show my glory, says the Lord GOD.

rsv@Ezekiel:39:14 @ They will set apart men to pass through the land continually and bury those remaining upon the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; at the end of seven months they will make their search.

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:39:23 @ 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:39:26 @ They shall forget their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,

rsv@Ezekiel:39:28 @ Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations any more;

rsv@Ezekiel:40:2 @ and brought me in the visions of God into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city opposite me.

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:40:6 @ Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep;

rsv@Ezekiel:40:13 @ Then he measured the gate from the back of the one side room to the back of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits, from door to door.

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:40:17 @ Then he brought me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers and a pavement, round about the court; thirty chambers fronted on the pavement.

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:40:19 @ Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits. Then he went before me to the north,

rsv@Ezekiel:40:20 @ and behold, there was a gate which faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court. He measured its length and its breadth.

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:40:23 @ And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court; and he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

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:40:26 @ 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:40:27 @ And there was a gate on the south of the inner court; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:28 @ Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it was of the same size as the others;

rsv@Ezekiel:40:32 @ Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate; it was of the same size as the others.

rsv@Ezekiel:40:35 @ Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same size as the others.

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:40:41 @ 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:40:44 @ Then he brought me from without into the inner court, and behold, there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north.

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:41:1 @ Then he brought me to the nave, and measured the jambs; on each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:3 @ Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls of the entrance, seven cubits.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:4 @ And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, This is the most holy place.

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:41:11 @ And the doors of the side chambers opened on the part of the platform that was left free, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the part that was left free was five cubits round about.

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:41:19 @ the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple round about;

rsv@Ezekiel:41:20 @ from the floor to above the door cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall.

rsv@Ezekiel:41:22 @ an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad; its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table which is before the LORD."

rsv@Ezekiel:42:1 @ Then he led me out into the inner court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers which were opposite the temple yard and opposite the building on the north.

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:42:7 @ And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.

rsv@Ezekiel:42:11 @ with a passage in front of them; they were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors.

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:43:1 @ Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east.

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:43:5 @ the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

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:43:10 @ "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:43:12 @ This is the law of the temple: the whole territory round about upon the top of the mountain shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:14 @ from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;

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:43:20 @ And you shall take some of its blood, and put it on the four horns of the altar, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the rim round about; thus you shall cleanse the altar and make atonement for it.

rsv@Ezekiel:43:21 @ You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area.

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:43:26 @ Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.

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:44:2 @ And he said to me, "This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it shall remain 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:44:4 @ Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple of the LORD; and I fell upon my face.

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:44:6 @ And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, let there be an end to all your abominations,

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:44:8 @ And you have not kept charge of my holy things; but you have set foreigners to keep my charge in my sanctuary.

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:44:12 @ Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, says the Lord GOD, that they shall bear their punishment.

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:44:14 @ Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.

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:44:16 @ they shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

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:44:22 @ 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:44:23 @ They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

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:44:30 @ 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:45:4 @ 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:45:15 @ 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:45:16 @ All the people of the land shall give this offering to the prince in Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:17 @ It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, cereal offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

rsv@Ezekiel:45:20 @ You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for any one who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.

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:45:24 @ And he shall provide as a cereal offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:4 @ The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

rsv@Ezekiel:46:5 @ and the cereal offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the cereal offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:7 @ as a cereal offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:9 @ "When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate; and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:11 @ "At the feasts and the appointed seasons the cereal offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:12 @ 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:46:13 @ "He shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning he shall provide it.

rsv@Ezekiel:46:14 @ And he shall provide a cereal offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a cereal offering to the LORD; this is the ordinance for the continual burnt offering.

rsv@Ezekiel: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:46:19 @ 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:46:21 @ Then he brought me forth to the outer court, and led me to the four corners of the court; and in each corner of the court there was a court--

rsv@Ezekiel:46:23 @ On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows round about.

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:47:4 @ Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water; and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water; and it was up to the loins.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:5 @ Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:6 @ And he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he led me back along the bank of the river.

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:47:10 @ 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:47:14 @ And you shall divide it equally; I swore to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:15 @ "This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, and on to Zedad,

rsv@Ezekiel:47:17 @ So the boundary shall run from the sea to Hazar-e'non, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This shall be the north side.

rsv@Ezekiel:47:18 @ "On the east side, the boundary shall run from Hazar-e'non between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.

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: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:48:12 @ 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:48:14 @ They shall not sell or exchange any of it; they shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.

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:48:20 @ The whole portion which you shall set apart shall be twenty-five thousand cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of the city.

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:48:30 @ "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:48:32 @ 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:1:3 @ Then the king commanded Ash'penaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility,

rsv@Daniel:1:4 @ youths without blemish, handsome and skilful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to serve in the king's palace, and to teach them the letters and language of the Chalde'ans.

rsv@Daniel:1:5 @ The king assigned them a daily portion of the rich food which the king ate, and of the wine which he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.

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:1:11 @ Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah;

rsv@Daniel:1:12 @ "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

rsv@Daniel:1:13 @ Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's rich food be observed by you, and according to what you see deal with your servants."

rsv@Daniel:1:14 @ So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

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:1:19 @ And the king spoke with them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah; therefore they stood before the king.

rsv@Daniel:2:2 @ Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chalde'ans be summoned, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

rsv@Daniel:2:3 @ And the king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream."

rsv@Daniel:2:4 @ Then the Chalde'ans said to the king, "O king, live for ever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation."

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:2:8 @ The king answered, "I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is sure

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:2:13 @ So the decree went forth that the wise men were to be slain, and they sought Daniel and his companions, to slay them.

rsv@Daniel:2:14 @ Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Ar'i-och, the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to slay the wise men of Babylon;

rsv@Daniel:2:15 @ he said to Ar'i-och, the king's captain, "Why is the decree of the king so severe?" Then Ar'i-och made the matter known to Daniel.

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:2:17 @ Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hanani'ah, Mish'a-el, and Azari'ah, his companions,

rsv@Daniel:2:18 @ 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:2:23 @ To thee, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for thou hast given me wisdom and strength, and hast now made known to me what we asked of thee, for thou hast made known to us the king's matter."

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:2:27 @ Daniel answered the king, "No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery which the king has asked,

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:2:30 @ But as for me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living has this mystery been revealed to me, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.

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:2:37 @ You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,

rsv@Daniel:2:38 @ and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you rule over them all--you are the head of gold.

rsv@Daniel:2:39 @ After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the 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:2:46 @ Then King Nebuchadnez'zar fell upon his face, and did homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him.

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: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:3:5 @ that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnez'zar has set up;

rsv@Daniel:3:6 @ and whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace."

rsv@Daniel:3:9 @ They said to King Nebuchadnez'zar, "O king, live for ever!

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:3:14 @ 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:3:15 @ Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well and good; but if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace; and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?"

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:3:17 @ If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

rsv@Daniel:3:18 @ But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."

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:3:24 @ Then King Nebuchadnez'zar was astonished and rose up in haste. He said to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king."

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:3:29 @ 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:4:1 @ King Nebuchadnez'zar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!

rsv@Daniel:4:2 @ It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has wrought toward me.

rsv@Daniel:4:3 @ How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

rsv@Daniel:4:6 @ Therefore I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

rsv@Daniel:4:7 @ Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chalde'ans, and the astrologers came in; and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.

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:4:11 @ The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

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:4:20 @ The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth;

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:4:25 @ 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:4:31 @ While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, "O King Nebuchadnez'zar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,

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:4:34 @ 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:4:37 @ Now I, Nebuchadnez'zar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

rsv@Daniel:5:4 @ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

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:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chalde'ans, and the astrologers. The king said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

rsv@Daniel:5:8 @ Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.

rsv@Daniel:5:10 @ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall; and the queen said, "O king, live for ever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.

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:5:15 @ Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the matter.

rsv@Daniel:5:16 @ But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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:5:23 @ 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:5:26 @ This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

rsv@Daniel:5:28 @ PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

rsv@Daniel:6:1 @ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom;

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:6:6 @ 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:6:12 @ 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:6:16 @ Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!"

rsv@Daniel:6:17 @ And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

rsv@Daniel:6:18 @ Then the king went to his palace, and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

rsv@Daniel:6:19 @ Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions.

rsv@Daniel:6:20 @ When he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?"

rsv@Daniel:6:21 @ Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live for ever!

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:7:1 @ In the first year of Belshaz'zar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, and told the sum of the matter.

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:7:6 @ After this I looked, and lo, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads; and dominion was given to it.

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:7:13 @ 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:7:16 @ I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.

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:7:23 @ "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:7:25 @ 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:8:1 @ In the third year of the reign of King Belshaz'zar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

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:8:6 @ He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the river, and he ran at him in his mighty wrath.

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:8:8 @ Then the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly; but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

rsv@Daniel:8:9 @ Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.

rsv@Daniel:8:10 @ It grew great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled upon them.

rsv@Daniel:8:11 @ It magnified itself, even up to the Prince of the host; and the continual burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.

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:8:15 @ When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it; and behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.

rsv@Daniel:8:17 @ So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened and fell upon my face. But he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."

rsv@Daniel:8:18 @ As he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and set me on my feet.

rsv@Daniel:8:19 @ He said, "Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation; for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.

rsv@Daniel:8:26 @ The vision of the evenings and the mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it pertains to many days hence."

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:9:6 @ 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:9:21 @ while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.

rsv@Daniel:9:22 @ He came and he said to me, "O Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding.

rsv@Daniel:9:23 @ At the beginning of your supplications a word went forth, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the word and understand the vision.

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:10:6 @ 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:10:9 @ Then I heard the sound of his words; and when I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in a deep sleep with my face to the ground.

rsv@Daniel:10:10 @ And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

rsv@Daniel:10:11 @ And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, give heed to the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you." While he was speaking this word to me, I stood up trembling.

rsv@Daniel:10:12 @ Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.

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:10:14 @ and came to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come."

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:10:18 @ Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.

rsv@Daniel:10:19 @ And he said, "O man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage." And when he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

rsv@Daniel:10:20 @ Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I am through with him, lo, the prince of Greece will come.

rsv@Daniel:11:1 @ And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

rsv@Daniel:11:3 @ Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will.

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:11:6 @ 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:11:8 @ 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:11:9 @ Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return into his own land.

rsv@Daniel:11:11 @ Then the king of the south, moved with anger, shall come out and fight with the king of the north; and he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand.

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:11:18 @ Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many of them; but a commander shall put an end to his insolence; indeed he shall turn his insolence back upon him.

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:11:20 @ "Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute through the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.

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:11:24 @ 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:11:28 @ And he shall return to his land with great substance, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will, and return to his own land.

rsv@Daniel:11:29 @ "At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south; but it shall not be this time as it was before.

rsv@Daniel:11:30 @ For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and give heed to those who forsake the holy covenant.

rsv@Daniel:11:34 @ When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;

rsv@Daniel:11:35 @ and some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine and to cleanse them and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is yet for the time appointed.

rsv@Daniel:11:36 @ "And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is determined shall be done.

rsv@Daniel:11:37 @ He shall give no heed to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women; he shall not give heed to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.

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:11:40 @ "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:11:44 @ 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:11:45 @ And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.

rsv@Daniel:12:2 @ And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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:12:4 @ But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."

rsv@Daniel:12:5 @ Then I Daniel looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream.

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:12:12 @ Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

rsv@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Hose'a the son of Be-e'ri, in the days of Uzzi'ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel.

rsv@Hosea:1:2 @ When the LORD first spoke through Hose'a, the LORD said to Hose'a, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the LORD."

rsv@Hosea:1:3 @ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Dibla'im, and she conceived and bore him a son.

rsv@Hosea:1:4 @ And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

rsv@Hosea:1:6 @ She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.

rsv@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Sons of the living God."

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:2:1 @ Say to your brother, "My people," and to your sister, "She has obtained pity."

rsv@Hosea:2:7 @ She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, `I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.'

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:2:11 @ And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

rsv@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will punish her for the feast days of the Ba'als when she burned incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.

rsv@Hosea:2:14 @ "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

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:2:23 @ and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Not pitied, and I will say to Not my people, `You are my people'; and he shall say `Thou art my God.'"

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:3:3 @ And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days; you shall not play the harlot, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."

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:4:6 @ 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:4:7 @ The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

rsv@Hosea:4:10 @ They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the harlot, but not multiply; because they have forsaken the LORD to cherish harlotry.

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:4:17 @ E'phraim is joined to idols, let him alone.

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:5:4 @ Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the LORD.

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:5:6 @ With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

rsv@Hosea:5:11 @ E'phraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

rsv@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I am like a moth to E'phraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

rsv@Hosea:5:13 @ When E'phraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then E'phraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.

rsv@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be like a lion to E'phraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.

rsv@Hosea: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:6:1 @ "Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.

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:6:9 @ 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:7:4 @ 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:7:10 @ 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:7:11 @ E'phraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

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:8:2 @ To me they cry, My God, we Israel know thee.

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:8:7 @ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.

rsv@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; E'phraim has hired lovers.

rsv@Hosea:8:11 @ Because E'phraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.

rsv@Hosea:8:12 @ Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

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:9:3 @ They shall not remain in the land of the LORD; but E'phraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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:9:6 @ 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:9:10 @ 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:9:12 @ Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!

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:9:17 @ My God will cast them off, because they have not hearkened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.

rsv@Hosea:10:6 @ Yea, the thing itself shall be carried to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. E'phraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.

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:10:10 @ I will come against the wayward people to chastise them; and nations shall be gathered against them when they are chastised for their double iniquity.

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:10:15 @ 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:11:2 @ The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Ba'als, and burning incense to idols.

rsv@Hosea:11:3 @ Yet it was I who taught E'phraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

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:11:5 @ They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.

rsv@Hosea:11:7 @ My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

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:11:11 @ 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:12:2 @ The LORD has an indictment against Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, and requite him according to his deeds.

rsv@Hosea:12:3 @ In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.

rsv@Hosea:12:6 @ "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."

rsv@Hosea:12:7 @ A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

rsv@Hosea:12:10 @ I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.

rsv@Hosea:12:11 @ If there is iniquity in Gilead they shall surely come to nought; if in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, their altars also shall be like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.

rsv@Hosea:12:12 @ (Jacob fled to the land of Aram, there Israel did service for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep.)

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:13:6 @ but when they had fed to the full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

rsv@Hosea:13:7 @ So I will be to them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

rsv@Hosea:13:10 @ 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:13:12 @ The iniquity of E'phraim is bound up, his sin is kept in store.

rsv@Hosea:14:1 @ Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

rsv@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept that which is good and we will render the fruit of our lips.

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:14:5 @ I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, he shall strike root as the poplar;

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@Joel:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethu'el:

rsv@Joel:1:14 @ Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God; and cry to the LORD.

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:2:5 @ As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

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:2:12 @ "Yet even now," says the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

rsv@Joel:2:13 @ and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil.

rsv@Joel:2:19 @ The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

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:2:25 @ 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:2:26 @ "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

rsv@Joel:2:27 @ You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, the LORD, am your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

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:3:2 @ I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehosh'aphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land,

rsv@Joel:3:4 @ "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily.

rsv@Joel:3:5 @ For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

rsv@Joel:3:6 @ You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.

rsv@Joel:3:7 @ But now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will requite your deed upon your own head.

rsv@Joel:3:8 @ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabe'ans, to a nation far off; for the LORD has spoken."

rsv@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."

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:3:16 @ And the LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

rsv@Joel:3:19 @ "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

rsv@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

rsv@Amos:1:2 @ 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:1:5 @ I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him that holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir," says the LORD.

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:1:9 @ 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:1:15 @ 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:2:7 @ they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;

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:2:16 @ and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:3:3 @ "Do two walk together, unless they have made an appointment?

rsv@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

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:3:10 @ "They do not know how to do right," says the LORD, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."

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:4:3 @ 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:4:5 @ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!" says the Lord GOD.

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:4:11 @ "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor'rah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.

rsv@Amos:4:12 @ "Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"

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:5:2 @ "Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up."

rsv@Amos:5:3 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

rsv@Amos:5:4 @ For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live;

rsv@Amos:5:5 @ but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nought."

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:5:11 @ 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:5:15 @ 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:5:19 @ as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.

rsv@Amos:5:23 @ Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.

rsv@Amos:5:25 @ "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

rsv@Amos:5:27 @ therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

rsv@Amos:6:1 @ "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Sama'ria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

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:6:7 @ 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:6:11 @ For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten into fragments, and the little house into bits.

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:6:14 @ "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:7:8 @ And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;

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:7:11 @ For thus Amos has said, `Jerobo'am shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'"

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:7:15 @ and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, `Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

rsv@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'"

rsv@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.

rsv@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,

rsv@Amos:8:8 @ Shall not the land tremble on this account, and every one mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?"

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:8:12 @ They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.

rsv@Amos:9:2 @ "Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

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:9:14 @ 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:1:3 @ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

rsv@Obadiah:1:5 @ 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:1:7 @ 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:1:10 @ For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.

rsv@Obadiah:1:11 @ On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

rsv@Obadiah:1:14 @ You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.

rsv@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.

rsv@Obadiah:1:18 @ 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:1:21 @ Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.

rsv@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amit'tai, saying,

rsv@Jonah:1:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me."

rsv@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

rsv@Jonah:1:4 @ But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.

rsv@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.

rsv@Jonah:1:6 @ So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish."

rsv@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

rsv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, "Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And whence do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?"

rsv@Jonah:1:9 @ And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

rsv@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

rsv@Jonah:1:11 @ Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

rsv@Jonah:1:12 @ He said to them, "Take me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you."

rsv@Jonah:1:13 @ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

rsv@Jonah:1:14 @ Therefore they cried to the LORD, "We beseech thee, O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee."

rsv@Jonah:1:15 @ So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

rsv@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

rsv@Jonah:1:17 @ And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

rsv@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,

rsv@Jonah:2:2 @ saying, "I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou didst hear my voice.

rsv@Jonah:2:3 @ For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

rsv@Jonah:2:6 @ at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O LORD my God.

rsv@Jonah:2:7 @ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.

rsv@Jonah:2:8 @ Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

rsv@Jonah:2:9 @ But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to thee; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the LORD!"

rsv@Jonah:2:10 @ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

rsv@Jonah:3:1 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

rsv@Jonah:3:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

rsv@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose and went to Nin'eveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.

rsv@Jonah:3:4 @ Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!"

rsv@Jonah:3:5 @ And the people of Nin'eveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

rsv@Jonah:3:8 @ but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.

rsv@Jonah:3:10 @ When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.

rsv@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.

rsv@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live."

rsv@Jonah:4:4 @ And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"

rsv@Jonah:4:5 @ Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.

rsv@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

rsv@Jonah:4:8 @ When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

rsv@Jonah:4:9 @ But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."

rsv@Jonah:4:10 @ And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.

rsv@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:1:6 @ 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:1:9 @ For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:1:13 @ Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; you were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

rsv@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Mo'resheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

rsv@Micah:1:15 @ I will again bring a conqueror upon you, inhabitants of Mare'shah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

rsv@Micah:1:16 @ Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.

rsv@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

rsv@Micah:2:4 @ In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields."

rsv@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

rsv@Micah:2:7 @ 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:2:10 @ Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

rsv@Micah:2:11 @ If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!

rsv@Micah:2:12 @ I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

rsv@Micah:3:1 @ And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--

rsv@Micah:3:4 @ Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

rsv@Micah:3:5 @ Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.

rsv@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

rsv@Micah:3:7 @ the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

rsv@Micah:3:8 @ But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

rsv@Micah:4:1 @ It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,

rsv@Micah:4:2 @ and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:4:3 @ He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more;

rsv@Micah:4:8 @ And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

rsv@Micah:4:10 @ 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:4:12 @ 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:5:2 @ But you, O Bethlehem Eph'rathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

rsv@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.

rsv@Micah:5:4 @ And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

rsv@Micah:5:5 @ And this shall be peace, when the Assyrian comes into our land and treads upon our soil, that we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;

rsv@Micah:5:6 @ they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

rsv@Micah:5:8 @ 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:5:13 @ 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:6:3 @ "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!

rsv@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Be'or answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD."

rsv@Micah:6:8 @ 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:6:12 @ Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

rsv@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.

rsv@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger in your inward parts; you shall put away, but not save, and what you save I will give to the sword.

rsv@Micah: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:7:7 @ But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

rsv@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.

rsv@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his deliverance.

rsv@Micah:7:10 @ Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

rsv@Micah:7:12 @ In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

rsv@Micah:7:17 @ they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall fear because of thee.

rsv@Micah:7:19 @ 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:1:3 @ The LORD is slow to anger and of great might, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

rsv@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overflowing flood he will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

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:2:5 @ The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.

rsv@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?

rsv@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

rsv@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty--no end to the plunder!

rsv@Nahum:3:6 @ I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.

rsv@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

rsv@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

rsv@Nahum:3:12 @ All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs--if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.

rsv@Nahum:3:13 @ Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your bars.

rsv@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

rsv@Nahum:3:18 @ 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:1:2 @ O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and thou wilt not hear? Or cry to thee "Violence!" and thou wilt not save?

rsv@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.

rsv@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For lo, I am rousing the Chalde'ans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.

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:1:13 @ 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:1:16 @ 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:2:1 @ I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

rsv@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.

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:2:7 @ Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be booty for them.

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:2:12 @ Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and founds a city on iniquity!

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:2:16 @ You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and stagger! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!

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:2:19 @ Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:1 @ A prayer of Habak'kuk the prophet, according to Shigion'oth.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills sank low. His ways were as of old.

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:3:9 @ Thou didst strip the sheath from thy bow, and put the arrows to the string. Selah Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

rsv@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.

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:3:14 @ Thou didst pierce with thy shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

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:3:19 @ 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:1:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Zephani'ah the son of Cushi, son of Gedali'ah, son of Amari'ah, son of Hezeki'ah, in the days of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

rsv@Zephaniah:1:5 @ those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom;

rsv@Zephaniah:1:18 @ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Come together and hold assembly, O shameless nation,

rsv@Zephaniah:2:5 @ 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:2:7 @ 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:2:11 @ The LORD will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.

rsv@Zephaniah:2:15 @ 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:3:4 @ Her prophets are wanton, faithless men; her priests profane what is sacred, they do violence to the law.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, `Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt."

rsv@Zephaniah:3:8 @ "Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my jealous wrath all the earth shall be consumed.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:9 @ "Yea, at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:11 @ "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:3:16 @ On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: "Do not fear, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak.

rsv@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

rsv@Zephaniah:3:19 @ 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:1:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD."

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:1:8 @ Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the LORD.

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:1:13 @ 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: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:2:5 @ according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit abides among you; fear not.

rsv@Haggai:2:11 @ "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:2:15 @ Pray now, consider what will come to pass from this day onward. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the temple of the LORD,

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:2:17 @ I smote you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD.

rsv@Haggai:2:20 @ The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,

rsv@Haggai:2:21 @ "Speak to Zerub'babel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,

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:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah the son of Berechi'ah, son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:1:3 @ Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zechariah:1:4 @ Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or heed me, says the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:1:6 @ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us."

rsv@Zechariah:1:7 @ On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah the son of Berechi'ah, son of Iddo, the prophet; and Zechari'ah said,

rsv@Zechariah:1:9 @ 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:1:13 @ And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

rsv@Zechariah:1:14 @ So the angel who talked with me said to me, `Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.

rsv@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:1:19 @ 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:2:2 @ Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."

rsv@Zechariah:2:3 @ And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,

rsv@Zechariah:2:4 @ and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, `Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.

rsv@Zechariah:2:5 @ For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the LORD, and I will be the glory within her.'"

rsv@Zechariah:2:7 @ 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:3:1 @ Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

rsv@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?"

rsv@Zechariah:3:4 @ And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel."

rsv@Zechariah:3:9 @ For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua, upon a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a single day.

rsv@Zechariah:4:2 @ And he said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps which are on the top of it.

rsv@Zechariah:4:4 @ And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

rsv@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerub'babel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Zechariah:4:7 @ What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerub'babel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of `Grace, grace to it!'"

rsv@Zechariah:4:8 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:4:9 @ "The hands of Zerub'babel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

rsv@Zechariah:4:11 @ 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:5:2 @ And he said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."

rsv@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land; for every one who steals shall be cut off henceforth according to it, and every one who swears falsely shall be cut off henceforth according to it.

rsv@Zechariah:5:4 @ I will send it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in his house and consume it, both timber and stones."

rsv@Zechariah:5:5 @ Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, "Lift your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth."

rsv@Zechariah:5:8 @ And he said, "This is Wickedness." And he thrust her back into the ephah, and thrust down the leaden weight upon its mouth.

rsv@Zechariah:5:9 @ Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

rsv@Zechariah:5:10 @ Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?"

rsv@Zechariah:5:11 @ He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the ephah down there on its base."

rsv@Zechariah:6:4 @ Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

rsv@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered me, "These are going forth to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD of all the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:6:6 @ The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the south country."

rsv@Zechariah:6:7 @ When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:6:8 @ Then he cried to me, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country."

rsv@Zechariah:6:9 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:

rsv@Zechariah:6:10 @ "Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobi'jah, and Jedai'ah, who have arrived from Babylon; and go the same day to the house of Josi'ah, the son of Zephani'ah.

rsv@Zechariah:6:12 @ and say to him, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall grow up in his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Heldai, Tobi'jah, Jedai'ah, and Josi'ah the son of Zephani'ah.

rsv@Zechariah:6:15 @ "And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God."

rsv@Zechariah:7:1 @ In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.

rsv@Zechariah:7:2 @ Now the people of Bethel had sent Share'zer and Reg'em-mel'ech and their men, to entreat the favor of the LORD,

rsv@Zechariah:7:3 @ and to ask the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

rsv@Zechariah:7:4 @ Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me;

rsv@Zechariah:7:5 @ "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

rsv@Zechariah:7:8 @ And the word of the LORD came to Zechari'ah, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:7:9 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy each to his brother,

rsv@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

rsv@Zechariah:7:14 @ "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."

rsv@Zechariah:8:1 @ And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus says the LORD: I will return to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.

rsv@Zechariah:8:8 @ 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:8:12 @ 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:8:14 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "As I purposed to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts,

rsv@Zechariah:8:15 @ so again have I purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.

rsv@Zechariah:8:16 @ These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

rsv@Zechariah:8:18 @ And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

rsv@Zechariah:8:19 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.

rsv@Zechariah:8:21 @ the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, `Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I am going.'

rsv@Zechariah:8:22 @ Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, `Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

rsv@Zechariah:9:1 @ An Oracle The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the LORD belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel;

rsv@Zechariah:9:4 @ 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:9:10 @ I will cut off the chariot from E'phraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

rsv@Zechariah:9:12 @ 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:10:4 @ Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every ruler.

rsv@Zechariah:10:5 @ Together they shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall confound the riders on horses.

rsv@Zechariah:10:10 @ I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.

rsv@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus said the LORD my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.

rsv@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, says the LORD. Lo, I will cause men to fall each into the hand of his shepherd, and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand."

rsv@Zechariah:11:7 @ So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slain for those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.

rsv@Zechariah:11:9 @ 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:11:13 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Cast it into the treasury"--the lordly price at which I was paid off by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and cast them into the treasury in the house of the LORD.

rsv@Zechariah:11:15 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.

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:12:5 @ Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, `The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

rsv@Zechariah:12:6 @ "On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about, while Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

rsv@Zechariah:12:7 @ "And the LORD will give victory to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah.

rsv@Zechariah:12:9 @ And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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:13:3 @ 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:13:7 @ "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:14:7 @ And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the LORD), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.

rsv@Zechariah:14:8 @ On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter.

rsv@Zechariah:14:10 @ 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:14:16 @ Then every one that survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:17 @ And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain upon them.

rsv@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, then upon them shall come the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.

rsv@Zechariah:14:20 @ And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar;

rsv@Zechariah:14:21 @ and every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the flesh of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.

rsv@Malachi:1:1 @ The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Mal'achi.

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:1:6 @ "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:1:8 @ 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:1:9 @ And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.

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:2:2 @ 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:2:4 @ So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may hold, says the LORD of hosts.

rsv@Malachi:2:5 @ My covenant with him was a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him, that he might fear; and he feared me, he stood in awe of my name.

rsv@Malachi:2:8 @ But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,

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:2:12 @ 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: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:3:4 @ Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.

rsv@Malachi: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:3:10 @ 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:3:13 @ "Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, `How have we spoken against thee?'

rsv@Malachi:3:14 @ You have said, `It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before 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: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."


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