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Creatures that Swarm on the Land“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,
These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
‹He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.›
Moab is my washbasin. I will make Edom serve me. I will shout in triumph over Philistia.”
Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They [are] entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
the thirteenth to Huppah,the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
As for me, I will wait continually, and will continue to praise you.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
The messenger replied,“Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
He will not cry out or shout
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
She said to him,“How can you say,‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].
He opened up a rock and water flowed out
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.
The people of Damascus will lose heart and turn to flee. Panic will grip them. Pain and anguish will seize them like a woman in labor.
Damascus is waxed feeble, [and] tursourceh herself to flee, and fear hath seized on [her]: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Because of this the king got furiously angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise [men] of Babylon.
in Hazor, Ramah, and Gittaim,
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
‹How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.›
Absalom said to Joab,“Look, I sent a message to you saying,‘Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message:“Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.”’ Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!”
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.
(The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, located on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.)
[Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim
and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves! For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”
And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.
(For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
Elisha Makes a Meal Edible Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant,“Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.”
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men to kill all the children in Bethlehem and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
Blessings of Obtaining Wisdom Blessed is the one who has found wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.
Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.
“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!
‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.›
The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, so that you were not harmed in any way by us.
Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom.
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver's beam.
Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
They entered Jerusalem to the sound of stringed instruments and trumpets and proceeded to the temple of the LORD.
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
Thanksgiving for God’s Comfort Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed:“O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
And it came to pass at [the time of] the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou [art] God in Israel, and [that] I [am] thy servant, and [that] I have done all these things at thy word.
“You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
The Parable of the Ten Virgins“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
‹Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.›
Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant–
To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
They crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, on the south side of the city, at the wadi of Gad, near Jazer.
And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
Look, the Sovereign LORD comes as a victorious warrior; his military power establishes his rule. Look, his reward is with him; his prize goes before him.
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Ruth Returns with Naomi Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah,
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
May God enlarge Japheth’s territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth!”
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malkiel.
And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
Vision Eight: The Chariots Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze.
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains [were] mountains of brass.
So Jeremiah summoned Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him and all the people of every class.
Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which [were] with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
The Gazelle and the Rugged MountainsThe Beloved to Her Lover: Until the dawn arrives and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved– be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountain gorges.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
When the godly see this, they rejoice, and every sinner shuts his mouth.
The righteous shall see [it], and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that [were] with him.
the ten movable stands with their ten basins,
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
I will weep for the grapevines of Sibmah just like the town of Jazer weeps over them. Their branches once spread as far as the Dead Sea. They reached as far as the town of Jazer. The destroyer will ravage her fig, date, and grape crops.
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
But they pay no attention
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.
Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, [that] ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.
But he said to them,“You give them something to eat.” They replied,“We have no more than five loaves and two fish– unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
But he said unto them, ‹Give ye them to eat.› And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
This is what the LORD says:“Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the LORD’s law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
‹But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.›
“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
God Will Judge the Surrounding Nations Amos said:“The LORD comes roaring out of Zion
And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone.
“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.
Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
Confirm to your servant your promise, which you made to the one who honors you.
Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear.
but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
He said to me,“Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”
And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
“Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family, if you have properly repaid him–
Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;
If a man redeems part of his tithe, however, he must add one fifth to it.
And if a man will at all redeem [ought] of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth [part] thereof.
When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying,‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
‹And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.›
“Tell all the leaders of Shechem this:‘Why would you want to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’”
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether [is] better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I [am] your bone and your flesh.
“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,›
On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees– palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook– and you must rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
In this way what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled:“He took our weaknesses and carried our diseases.”
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] sicknesses.
For the music director; by the LORD’s servant David, who sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said:“I love you, LORD, my source of strength!
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
If he is able to fight with me and strike me down, we will become your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, you will become our servants and will serve us.”
If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
And the foundations of the wall of the city [were] garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation [was] jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy
And [there was] a man in Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
The Charge to Gaius Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers(even though they are strangers).
Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;
for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”
For he will finish the work, and cut [it] short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil.
[Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed.
For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
I rejoice in your instructions, like one who finds much plunder.
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.
Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
for no prophecy was ever borne of human impulse; rather, men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.
Elihu’s Third Speech Then Elihu answered:
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the atonement lid.
And the cherubims shall stretch forth [their] wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces [shall look] one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.