THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE
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|PREFACE
DEDICATION TO KING JAMES
"TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE, JAMES, BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH,
ETC."
The Translators of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy, and Peace, through
JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Great and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which
Almighty God, the Father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of
England, when first he sent Your Majesty's Royal Person to rule and reign
over us. For whereas it was the expectation of many who wished not well
unto our Sion, that, upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen
Elizabeth, of most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness
would so have overshadowed this land, that men should have been in doubt
which way they were to walk, and that it should hardly be known who was to
direct the unsettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun
in his strength, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists, and
gave unto all that were well affected exceeding cause of comfort;
especially when we beheld the Government established in Your Highness and
Your hopeful Seed, by an undoubted Title; and this also accompanied with
peace and tranquility at home and abroad.
But among all our joys, there was no one that more filled our hearts
than the blessed continuance of the preaching of God's sacred Word among
us, which is that inestimable treasure which excelleth all the riches of
earth; because the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time
spent in this transitory world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that
eternal happiness which is above in heaven.
Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it
up, and to continue it in that state wherein the famous Predecessor of Your
Highness did leave it; nay, to go forward with the confidence and
resolution of a man, in maintaining the truth of Christ, and propagating it
far and near, is that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all
Your Majesty's loyal and religious people unto You, that Your very name is
precious among them: their eye doth behold You with comfort, and they bless
You in their hearts, as that sanctified Person, who, under God, is the
immediate author of their true happiness. And this their contentment doth
not diminish or decay, but every day increaseth and taketh strength, when
they observe that the zeal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not
slack or go backward, but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself
abroad in the farthest parts of Christendom, by writing in defence of the
truth, (which hath given such a blow unto that Man of Sin as will not be
healed,) and every day at home, by religious and learned discourse, by
frequenting the house of God, by hearing the Word preached, by cherishing
the teachers thereof, by caring for the Church, as a most tender and loving
nursing father.
There are infinite arguments of this right Christian and religious
affection in Your Majesty; but none is more forcible to declare it to
others than the vehement and perpetuated desire of accomplishing and
publishing of this work, which now, with all humility, we present unto Your
Majesty. For when Your Highness had once, out of deep judgment,
apprehended how convenient it was, that, out of the Original sacred
Tongues, together with comparing of the labours, both in our own and other
foreign languages, of many worthy men who went before us, there should be
one more exact translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue;
Your Majesty did never desist to urge and to excite those to whom it was
commended, that the Work might be hastened, and that the business might be
expedited in so decent a manner, as a matter of such importance might
justly require.
And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our
labours, it being brought unto such a conclusion, as that we have great
hopes that the Church of England shall reap good fruit thereby, we hold it
our duty to offer it to Your Majesty, not only as to our King and
Sovereign, but as to the principal mover and author of the Work; humbly
craving of your most Sacred Majesty, that, since things of this quality
have ever been subject to the censures of ill-meaning and discontented
persons, it may receive approbation and patronage from so learned and
judicious a Prince as Your Highness is; whose allowance and acceptance of
our labours shall more honour and encourage us than all the calumniations
and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the
one side, we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad, who
therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's
hold truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they desire
still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on the other side, we shall
be maligned by self-conceited brethren, who run their own ways, and give
liking unto nothing but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their
anvil, we may rest secure, supported within by the
truth and innocency of a good conscience, having walked the ways of
simplicity and integrity as before the Lord, and sustained without by the
powerful protection of Your Majesty's grace and favour, which will ever
give countenance to honest and Christian endeavors against bitter censures
and uncharitable imputations.
The Lord of heaven and earth bless Your Majesty with many and happy
days; that, as his heavenly hand hath enriched Your Highness with many
singular and extraordinary graces, so You may be the wonder of the world in
this latter age for happiness and true felicity, to the honour of that
great God, and the good of his Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord and
only Saviour.
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Genesis|1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis|1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was]
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
Genesis|1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis|1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided
the light from the darkness.
Genesis|1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis|1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis|1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which
[were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the
firmament: and it was so.
Genesis|1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
Genesis|1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.
Genesis|1:10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.
Genesis|1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis|1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Genesis|1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis|1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis|1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis|1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
Genesis|1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth,
Genesis|1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.
Genesis|1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis|1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in
the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis|1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Genesis|1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Genesis|1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis|1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after
his kind: and it was so.
Genesis|1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Genesis|1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis|1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis|1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis|1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the
which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis|1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the
air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is]
life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Genesis|1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it
was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis|2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them.
Genesis|2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis|2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis|2:4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the
heavens,
Genesis|2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and
every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it
to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
Genesis|2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.
Genesis|2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul.
Genesis|2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis|2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God 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 knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis|2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Genesis|2:11 The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
Genesis|2:12 And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium
and the onyx stone.
Genesis|2:13 And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is]
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
Genesis|2:14 And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it
which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is]
Euphrates.
Genesis|2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis|2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis|2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.
Genesis|2:18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should
be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis|2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of
the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see
what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,
that [was] the name thereof.
Genesis|2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the
air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an
help meet for him.
Genesis|2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and
he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof;
Genesis|2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he
a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis|2:23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of
my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis|2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis|2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.
Genesis|3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God
said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis|3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden:
Genesis|3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.
Genesis|3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely
die:
Genesis|3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Genesis|3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food,
and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
[one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
her husband with her; and he did eat.
Genesis|3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
aprons.
Genesis|3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis|3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
[art] thou?
Genesis|3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis|3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast
thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not
eat?
Genesis|3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with
me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis|3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that]
thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Genesis|3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast
done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days
of thy life:
Genesis|3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel.
Genesis|3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis|3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in
sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
Genesis|3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Genesis|3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art],
and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis|3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living.
Genesis|3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats
of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis|3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of
us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Genesis|3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of
Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis|3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
Genesis|4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Genesis|4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper
of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis|4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Genesis|4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and
of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Genesis|4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis|4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
thy countenance fallen?
Genesis|4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee [shall be] his desire,
and thou shalt rule over him.
Genesis|4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass,
when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother,
and slew him.
Genesis|4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
Genesis|4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Genesis|4:11 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened
her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Genesis|4:12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield
unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth.
Genesis|4:13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment [is] greater
than I can bear.
Genesis|4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of
the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and
a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, [that] every one that
findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis|4:15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark
upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Genesis|4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt
in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis|4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:
and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of
his son, Enoch.
Genesis|4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
Genesis|4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one
[was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis|4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in
tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
Genesis|4:21 And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of
all such as handle the harp and organ.
Genesis|4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah.
Genesis|4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man
to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Genesis|4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy
and sevenfold.
Genesis|4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and
called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis|4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he
called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis|5:1 This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day
that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Genesis|5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and
called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis|5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a
son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis|5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and
thirty years: and he died.
Genesis|5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
Genesis|5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years:
and he died.
Genesis|5:9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
Genesis|5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and
fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years:
and he died.
Genesis|5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
Genesis|5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred
and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years:
and he died.
Genesis|5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
Genesis|5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety
and five years: and he died.
Genesis|5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he
begat Enoch:
Genesis|5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two
years: and he died.
Genesis|5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis|5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five
years:
Genesis|5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took
him.
Genesis|5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech:
Genesis|5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and
nine years: and he died.
Genesis|5:28 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat
a son:
Genesis|5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall
comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground
which the LORD hath cursed.
Genesis|5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety
and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis|5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
seven years: and he died.
Genesis|5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis|6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face
of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis|6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they
[were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis|6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with
man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years.
Genesis|6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
[children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men
of renown.
Genesis|6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the
earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only
evil continually.
Genesis|6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis|6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Genesis|6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis|6:9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man
[and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
Genesis|6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis|6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence.
Genesis|6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis|6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will
destroy them with the earth.
Genesis|6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in
the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis|6:15 And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]:
The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it
fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis|6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt
thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.
Genesis|6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under
heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.
Genesis|6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
Genesis|6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort]
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall
be male and female.
Genesis|6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind,
of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort]
shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.
Genesis|6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou
shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis|6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so
did he.
Genesis|7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house
into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis|7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the
male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male
and his female.
Genesis|7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female;
to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis|7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have
made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis|7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis|7:6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of
waters was upon the earth.
Genesis|7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis|7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Genesis|7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male
and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis|7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of
the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis|7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.
Genesis|7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.
Genesis|7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons
with them, into the ark;
Genesis|7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis|7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all
flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
Genesis|7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis|7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis|7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Genesis|7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and
all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.
Genesis|7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
Genesis|7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth, and every man:
Genesis|7:22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that
[was] in the dry [land], died.
Genesis|7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the
fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only
remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
Genesis|7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and
fifty days.
Genesis|8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the
cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the
earth, and the waters asswaged;
Genesis|8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Genesis|8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and
after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis|8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis|8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month:
in the tenth [month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the
mountains seen.
Genesis|8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Genesis|8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro,
until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis|8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters
were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis|8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the
whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in
unto him into the ark.
Genesis|8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark;
Genesis|8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her
mouth [was] an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were
abated from off the earth.
Genesis|8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the
dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Genesis|8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in
the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up
from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,
and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis|8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of
the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis|8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Genesis|8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and
thy sons' wives with thee.
Genesis|8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with
thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Genesis|8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him:
Genesis|8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and]
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of
the ark.
Genesis|8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the
altar.
Genesis|8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in
his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for
the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I
again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Genesis|8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis|9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis|9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
[upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are
they delivered.
Genesis|9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even
as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis|9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis|9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the
hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand
of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis|9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.
Genesis|9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis|9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis|9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with
your seed after you;
Genesis|9:10 And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the
fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all
that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Genesis|9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall
all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there
any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis|9:12 And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I
make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for
perpetual generations:
Genesis|9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token
of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis|9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Genesis|9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and
you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more
become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis|9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
Genesis|9:17 And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the
covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon
the earth.
Genesis|9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.
Genesis|9:19 These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the
whole earth overspread.
Genesis|9:20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a
vineyard:
Genesis|9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent.
Genesis|9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his
father, and told his two brethren without.
Genesis|9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon
both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their
father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's
nakedness.
Genesis|9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
Genesis|9:25 And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants
shall he be unto his brethren.
Genesis|9:26 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant.
Genesis|9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents
of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Genesis|9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty
years.
Genesis|9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:
and he died.
Genesis|10:1 Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis|10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and
Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis|10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis|10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
Genesis|10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis|10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan.
Genesis|10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis|10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth.
Genesis|10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is
said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
Genesis|10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis|10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
Genesis|10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great
city.
Genesis|10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
Genesis|10:14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim.
Genesis|10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis|10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
Genesis|10:17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis|10:18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Genesis|10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
Genesis|10:20 These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after
their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.
Genesis|10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber,
the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were [children] born.
Genesis|10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and
Lud, and Aram.
Genesis|10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and
Mash.
Genesis|10:24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
Genesis|10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was]
Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name [was]
Joktan.
Genesis|10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth,
and Jerah,
Genesis|10:27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
Genesis|10:28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
Genesis|10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these [were] the
sons of Joktan.
Genesis|10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto
Sephar a mount of the east.
Genesis|10:31 These [are] the sons of Shem, after their families, after
their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Genesis|10:32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the
earth after the flood.
Genesis|11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Genesis|11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Genesis|11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
mortar.
Genesis|11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis|11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
Genesis|11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they
have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis|11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis|11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis|11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD
did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis|11:10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred
years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Genesis|11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis|11:13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and
three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
Genesis|11:15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
Genesis|11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Genesis|11:19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine
years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis|11:21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Genesis|11:23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis|11:25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and
nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis|11:26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
Genesis|11:27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat
Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Genesis|11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis|11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's
wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of
Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis|11:30 But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child.
Genesis|11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they
went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis|11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran.
Genesis|12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will show thee:
Genesis|12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis|12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis|12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed
out of Haran.
Genesis|12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son,
and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and
into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis|12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.
Genesis|12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed
will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who
appeared unto him.
Genesis|12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the
east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name
of the LORD.
Genesis|12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Genesis|12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down
into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.
Genesis|12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into
Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou [art]
a fair woman to look upon:
Genesis|12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall
see thee, that they shall say, This [is] his wife: and they will kill me,
but they will save thee alive.
Genesis|12:13 Say, I pray thee, thou [art] my sister: that it may be
well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Genesis|12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.
Genesis|12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her
before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis|12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had
sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she
asses, and camels.
Genesis|12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
Genesis|12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What [is] this [that]
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she [was] thy wife?
Genesis|12:19 Why saidst thou, She [is] my sister? so I might have taken
her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take [her], and go thy
way.
Genesis|12:20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and they
sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis|13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all
that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Genesis|13:2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold.
Genesis|13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel,
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
Hai;
Genesis|13:4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the
first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis|13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds,
and tents.
Genesis|13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might
dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell
together.
Genesis|13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's
cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
dwelled then in the land.
Genesis|13:8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray
thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we
[be] brethren.
Genesis|13:9 [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I
pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to
the right; or if [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the
left.
Genesis|13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of
Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Genesis|13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot
journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis|13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in
the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.
Genesis|13:13 But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the
LORD exceedingly.
Genesis|13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art
northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Genesis|13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis|13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that
if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be
numbered.
Genesis|13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in
the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis|13:18 Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the
plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the
LORD.
Genesis|14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of
nations;
Genesis|14:2 [That these] made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with
Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
Genesis|14:3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which
is the salt sea.
Genesis|14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis|14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings
that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the
Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis|14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which
[is] by the wilderness.
Genesis|14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which [is]
Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites,
that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
Genesis|14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of
Bela (the same [is] Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of
Siddim;
Genesis|14:9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four
kings with five.
Genesis|14:10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits; and the
kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained
fled to the mountain.
Genesis|14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
their victuals, and went their way.
Genesis|14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in
Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis|14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol,
and brother of Aner: and these [were] confederate with Abram.
Genesis|14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive,
he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.
Genesis|14:15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants,
by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which [is] on the
left hand of Damascus.
Genesis|14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again
his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Genesis|14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his
return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that [were]
with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's dale.
Genesis|14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and
wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.
Genesis|14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the
most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
Genesis|14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered
thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Genesis|14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the
persons, and take the goods to thyself.
Genesis|14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine
hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis|14:23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a
shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou
shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis|14:24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the
portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them
take their portion.
Genesis|15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in
a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding
great reward.
Genesis|15:2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I
go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis|15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and,
lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis|15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [came] unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels shall be thine heir.
Genesis|15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said
unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis|15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
Genesis|15:7 And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out
of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis|15:8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it?
Genesis|15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Genesis|15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the
midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he
not.
Genesis|15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram
drove them away.
Genesis|15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon
Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis|15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them;
and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis|15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge:
and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Genesis|15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
Genesis|15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again:
for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
Genesis|15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it
was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between
those pieces.
Genesis|15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis|15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
Genesis|15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Genesis|15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites,
and the Jebusites.
Genesis|16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Hagar.
Genesis|16:2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath
restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that
I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis|16:3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian,
after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her
husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis|16:4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she
saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Genesis|16:5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong [be] upon thee: I have
given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I
was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
Genesis|16:6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid [is] in thy
hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her,
she fled from her face.
Genesis|16:7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water
in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis|16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress
Sarai.
Genesis|16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
Genesis|16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis|16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou
[art] with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;
because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Genesis|16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against
every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren.
Genesis|16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her,
Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that
seeth me?
Genesis|16:14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, [it
is] between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis|16:15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's
name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
Genesis|16:16 And Abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when Hagar
bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis|17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD
appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before
me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis|17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly.
Genesis|17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,
saying,
Genesis|17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou
shalt be a father of many nations.
Genesis|17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy
name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis|17:6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis|17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and
thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be
a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Genesis|17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis|17:9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
Genesis|17:10 This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and
you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
circumcised.
Genesis|17:11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Genesis|17:12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among
you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or
bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy seed.
Genesis|17:13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with
thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your
flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis|17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his
foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he
hath broken my covenant.
Genesis|17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou
shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be].
Genesis|17:16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her:
yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings of
people shall be of her.
Genesis|17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in
his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old?
and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis|17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live
before thee!
Genesis|17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with
him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.
Genesis|17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis|17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah
shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Genesis|17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
Abraham.
Genesis|17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born
in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the
men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the
selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis|17:24 And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis|17:25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis|17:26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael
his son.
Genesis|17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and
bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
Genesis|18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and
he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis|18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men
stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent
door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Genesis|18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight,
pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Genesis|18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your
feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Genesis|18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your
servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
Genesis|18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said,
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [it], and make cakes
upon the hearth.
Genesis|18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender
and good, and gave [it] unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Genesis|18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had
dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and
they did eat.
Genesis|18:9 And they said unto him, Where [is] Sarah thy wife? And he
said, Behold, in the tent.
Genesis|18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according
to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah
heard [it] in the tent door, which [was] behind him.
Genesis|18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in
age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis|18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Genesis|18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
Genesis|18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed
I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall
have a son.
Genesis|18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was
afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
Genesis|18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom:
and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Genesis|18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing
which I do;
Genesis|18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis|18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his
household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice
and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath
spoken of him.
Genesis|18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah
is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis|18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I
will know.
Genesis|18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went
toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
Genesis|18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy
the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis|18:24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city:
wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that
[are] therein?
Genesis|18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked,
that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis|18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous
within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Genesis|18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:
Genesis|18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous:
wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find
there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].
Genesis|18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure
there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for
forty's sake.
Genesis|18:30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry, and
I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said,
I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.
Genesis|18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak
unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said,
I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake.
Genesis|18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will
speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he
said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.
Genesis|18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Genesis|19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in
the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed
himself with his face toward the ground;
Genesis|19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you,
into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye
shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will
abide in the street all night.
Genesis|19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto
him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake
unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Genesis|19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the
men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people
from every quarter:
Genesis|19:5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where [are]
the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we
may know them.
Genesis|19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door
after him,
Genesis|19:7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Genesis|19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man;
let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good
in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under
the shadow of my roof.
Genesis|19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This one
[fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal
worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even]
Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis|19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the
house to them, and shut to the door.
Genesis|19:11 And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the
house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves
to find the door.
Genesis|19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son
in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the
city, bring [them] out of this place:
Genesis|19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to
destroy it.
Genesis|19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which
married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the
LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons
in law.
Genesis|19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest
thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis|19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand,
and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the
LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
without the city.
Genesis|19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth
abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither
stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Genesis|19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
Genesis|19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and
thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my
life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I
die:
Genesis|19:20 Behold now, this city [is] near to flee unto, and it [is]
a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, ([is] it not a little one?) and my
soul shall live.
Genesis|19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for which thou
hast spoken.
Genesis|19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till
thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis|19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into
Zoar.
Genesis|19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
Genesis|19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all
the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis|19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
Genesis|19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where
he stood before the LORD:
Genesis|19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went
up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis|19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Genesis|19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain,
and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he
dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Genesis|19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is]
old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the
manner of all the earth:
Genesis|19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie
with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis|19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
Genesis|19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said
unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him
drink wine this night also; and go thou in, [and] lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.
Genesis|19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and
the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay
down, nor when she arose.
Genesis|19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their
father.
Genesis|19:37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab:
the same [is] the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Genesis|19:38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name
Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Genesis|20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country,
and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis|20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my sister: and
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis|20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to
him, Behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for the woman which thou hast
taken; for she [is] a man's wife.
Genesis|20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord,
wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis|20:5 Said he not unto me, She [is] my sister? and she, even she
herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my heart and
innocency of my hands have I done this.
Genesis|20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou
didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from
sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Genesis|20:7 Now therefore restore the man [his] wife; for he [is] a
prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou
restore [her] not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that
[are] thine.
Genesis|20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called
all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were
sore afraid.
Genesis|20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast
thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on
me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought
not to be done.
Genesis|20:10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that
thou hast done this thing?
Genesis|20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of
God [is] not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Genesis|20:12 And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter
of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis|20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I said unto her, This [is] thy kindness which thou
shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He
[is] my brother.
Genesis|20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave [them] unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his
wife.
Genesis|20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land [is] before thee:
dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis|20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
thousand [pieces] of silver: behold, he [is] to thee a covering of the
eyes, unto all that [are] with thee, and with all [other]: thus she was
reproved.
Genesis|20:17 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and
his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare [children].
Genesis|20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house
of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Genesis|21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did
unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Genesis|21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,
at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis|21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto
him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
Genesis|21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old,
as God had commanded him.
Genesis|21:5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac
was born unto him.
Genesis|21:6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, [so that] all
that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis|21:7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah
should have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in his old
age.
Genesis|21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a
great feast the [same] day that Isaac was weaned.
Genesis|21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had
born unto Abraham, mocking.
Genesis|21:10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman
and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,
[even] with Isaac.
Genesis|21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because
of his son.
Genesis|21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy
sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah
hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be
called.
Genesis|21:13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
because he [is] thy seed.
Genesis|21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread,
and a bottle of water, and gave [it] unto Hagar, putting [it] on her
shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered
in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis|21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the
child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis|21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against [him] a good
way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of
the child. And she sat over against [him], and lift up her voice, and wept.
Genesis|21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar?
fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he [is].
Genesis|21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I
will make him a great nation.
Genesis|21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and
she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Genesis|21:20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis|21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother
took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis|21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and
Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God [is]
with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis|21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not
deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: [but]
according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto
me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Genesis|21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
Genesis|21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,
which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Genesis|21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing:
neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day.
Genesis|21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
Genesis|21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by
themselves.
Genesis|21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven
ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Genesis|21:30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take
of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this
well.
Genesis|21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there
they sware both of them.
Genesis|21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech
rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into
the land of the Philistines.
Genesis|21:33 And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called
there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Genesis|21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis|22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt
Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, [here] I [am].
Genesis|22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for
a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Genesis|22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his
ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave
the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him.
Genesis|22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
the place afar off.
Genesis|22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the
ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Genesis|22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid
[it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and
they went both of them together.
Genesis|22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My
father: and he said, Here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and
the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt offering?
Genesis|22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb
for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis|22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and
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.
Genesis|22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife
to slay his son.
Genesis|22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven,
and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here [am] I.
Genesis|22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do
thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son] from me.
Genesis|22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold
behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son.
Genesis|22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as
it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
Genesis|22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of
heaven the second time,
Genesis|22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine
only [son]:
Genesis|22:17 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;
Genesis|22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Genesis|22:19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up
and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
Genesis|22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy
brother Nahor;
Genesis|22:21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the
father of Aram,
Genesis|22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and
Bethuel.
Genesis|22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to
Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis|22:24 And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also
Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Genesis|23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:
[these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis|23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in the
land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis|23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto
the sons of Heth, saying,
Genesis|23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a
possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my
sight.
Genesis|23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis|23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a mighty prince among us: in
the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Genesis|23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of
the land, [even] to the children of Heth.
Genesis|23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that
I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to
Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis|23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he
shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
Genesis|23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron
the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,
[even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis|23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave
that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people
give I it thee: bury thy dead.
Genesis|23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the
land.
Genesis|23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of
the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will
give thee money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead
there.
Genesis|23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis|23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four hundred
shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy
dead.
Genesis|23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth,
four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.
Genesis|23:17 And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah, which
[was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein, and all
the trees that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the borders round
about, were made sure
Genesis|23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the
children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis|23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave
of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of
Canaan.
Genesis|23:20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were made
sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
Genesis|24:1 And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the
LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis|24:2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
Genesis|24:3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven,
and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of
the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis|24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Genesis|24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will
not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son
again unto the land from whence thou camest?
Genesis|24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not
my son thither again.
Genesis|24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's
house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that
sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send
his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
Genesis|24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then
thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
Genesis|24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Genesis|24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his
master, and departed; for all the goods of his master [were] in his hand:
and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Genesis|24:11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a
well of water at the time of the evening, [even] the time that women go out
to draw [water].
Genesis|24:12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee,
send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.
Genesis|24:13 Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water; and the
daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis|24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall
say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall
say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: [let the same be] she
[that] thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know
that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.
Genesis|24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that,
behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife
of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Genesis|24:16 And the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin,
neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled
her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis|24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray
thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Genesis|24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down
her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
Genesis|24:19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will
draw [water] for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Genesis|24:20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough,
and ran again unto the well to draw [water], and drew for all his camels.
Genesis|24:21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit
whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
Genesis|24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that
the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets
for her hands of ten [shekels] weight of gold;
Genesis|24:23 And said, Whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, I pray thee:
is there room [in] thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Genesis|24:24 And she said unto him, I [am] the daughter of Bethuel the
son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis|24:25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and
provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Genesis|24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
Genesis|24:27 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of my master
Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth:
I [being] in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
Genesis|24:28 And the damsel ran, and told [them of] her mother's house
these things.
Genesis|24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] Laban: and
Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
Genesis|24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets
upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,
saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold,
he stood by the camels at the well.
Genesis|24:31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the
camels.
Genesis|24:32 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his
camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his
feet, and the men's feet that [were] with him.
Genesis|24:33 And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I
will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Genesis|24:34 And he said, I [am] Abraham's servant.
Genesis|24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is
become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and
gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis|24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when
she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
Genesis|24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
Genesis|24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my
kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Genesis|24:39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
follow me.
Genesis|24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will
send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife
for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
Genesis|24:41 Then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when thou
comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one], thou shalt be clear
from my oath.
Genesis|24:42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of
my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Genesis|24:43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to
pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw [water], and I say to her,
Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
Genesis|24:44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw
for thy camels: [let] the same [be] the woman whom the LORD hath appointed
out for my master's son.
Genesis|24:45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold,
Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto
the well, and drew [water]: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
Genesis|24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her
[shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I
drank, and she made the camels drink also.
Genesis|24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? And
she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him:
and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Genesis|24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and
blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right
way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
Genesis|24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master,
tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the
left.
Genesis|24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
Genesis|24:51 Behold, Rebekah [is] before thee, take [her], and go, and
let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
Genesis|24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard
their words, he worshipped the LORD, [bowing himself] to the earth.
Genesis|24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to Rebekah: he gave also to her
brother and to her mother precious things.
Genesis|24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that [were]
with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he
said, Send me away unto my master.
Genesis|24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide
with us [a few] days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
Genesis|24:56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
Genesis|24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her
mouth.
Genesis|24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go
with this man? And she said, I will go.
Genesis|24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse,
and Abraham's servant, and his men.
Genesis|24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art]
our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed
possess the gate of those which hate them.
Genesis|24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his
way.
Genesis|24:62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he
dwelt in the south country.
Genesis|24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the
eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels
[were] coming.
Genesis|24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac,
she lighted off the camel.
Genesis|24:65 For she [had] said unto the servant, What man [is] this
that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, It [is]
my master: therefore she took a veil, and covered herself.
Genesis|24:66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
Genesis|24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and
took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was
comforted after his mother's [death].
Genesis|25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.
Genesis|25:2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and
Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis|25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan
were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Genesis|25:4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
Abidah, and Eldaah. All these [were] the children of Keturah.
Genesis|25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
Genesis|25:6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet
lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Genesis|25:7 And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's life
which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis|25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age,
an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.
Genesis|25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [is]
before Mamre;
Genesis|25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth:
there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis|25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God
blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
Genesis|25:12 Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Genesis|25:13 And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their
names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth;
and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis|25:14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Genesis|25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Genesis|25:16 These [are] the sons of Ishmael, and these [are] their
names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to
their nations.
Genesis|25:17 And these [are] the years of the life of Ishmael, an
hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and
was gathered unto his people.
Genesis|25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before
Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the presence of all
his brethren.
Genesis|25:19 And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son:
Abraham begat Isaac:
Genesis|25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to
wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban
the Syrian.
Genesis|25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she
[was] barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.
Genesis|25:22 And the children struggled together within her; and she
said, If [it be] so, why [am] I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
Genesis|25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in thy womb,
and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one]
people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve
the younger.
Genesis|25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold,
[there were] twins in her womb.
Genesis|25:25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy
garment; and they called his name Esau.
Genesis|25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took
hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac [was]
threescore years old when she bare them.
Genesis|25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of
the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis|25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his] venison:
but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis|25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and
he [was] faint:
Genesis|25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that
same red [pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Genesis|25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Genesis|25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and
what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Genesis|25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto
him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Genesis|25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he
did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his]
birthright.
Genesis|26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine
that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the
Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis|26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Genesis|26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will
bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy
father;
Genesis|26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of
heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis|26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge,
my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Genesis|26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
Genesis|26:7 And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he
said, She [is] my sister: for he feared to say, [She is] my wife; lest,
[said he], the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she
[was] fair to look upon.
Genesis|26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time,
that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw,
and, behold, Isaac [was] sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Genesis|26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety
she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, She [is] my sister? And Isaac said
unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
Genesis|26:10 And Abimelech said, What [is] this thou hast done unto us?
one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest
have brought guiltiness upon us.
Genesis|26:11 And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Genesis|26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same
year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis|26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until
he became very great:
Genesis|26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds,
and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis|26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged
in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and
filled them with earth.
Genesis|26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art
much mightier than we.
Genesis|26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Genesis|26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped
them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names
by which his father had called them.
Genesis|26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there
a well of springing water.
Genesis|26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
saying, The water [is] ours: and he called the name of the well Esek;
because they strove with him.
Genesis|26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also:
and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Genesis|26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and
for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he
said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in
the land.
Genesis|26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
Genesis|26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I
[am] the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and
will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis|26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of
the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a
well.
Genesis|26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of
his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
Genesis|26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing
ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Genesis|26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with
thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, [even] betwixt us
and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
Genesis|26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee,
and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in
peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD.
Genesis|26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Genesis|26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis|26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants
came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto
him, We have found water.
Genesis|26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city
[is] Beersheba unto this day.
Genesis|26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith
the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the
Hittite:
Genesis|26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Genesis|27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes
were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said
unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, [here am] I.
Genesis|27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
Genesis|27:3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver
and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me [some] venison;
Genesis|27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to
me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis|27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And
Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it].
Genesis|27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Genesis|27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat,
and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
Genesis|27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that
which I command thee.
Genesis|27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids
of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he
loveth:
Genesis|27:10 And thou shalt bring [it] to thy father, that he may eat,
and that he may bless thee before his death.
Genesis|27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my
brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
Genesis|27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to
him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Genesis|27:13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me [be] thy curse, my
son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me [them].
Genesis|27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought [them] to his
mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
Genesis|27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau,
which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger
son:
Genesis|27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Genesis|27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Genesis|27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?
Genesis|27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I [am] Esau thy firstborn;
I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of
my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis|27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How [is it] that thou hast
found [it] so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God
brought [it] to me.
Genesis|27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I
may feel thee, my son, whether thou [be] my very son Esau or not.
Genesis|27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt
him, and said, The voice [is] Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands
of Esau.
Genesis|27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as
his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
Genesis|27:24 And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I
[am].
Genesis|27:25 And he said, Bring [it] near to me, and I will eat of my
son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought [it] near to
him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis|27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and
kiss me, my son.
Genesis|27:27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell
of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son [is] as
the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
Genesis|27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the
fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
Genesis|27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be
lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed
[be] every one that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth thee.
Genesis|27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of
Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Genesis|27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis|27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who [art] thou? And he
said, I [am] thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
Genesis|27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where
[is] he that hath taken venison, and brought [it] me, and I have eaten of
all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, [and] he shall be
blessed.
Genesis|27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with
a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me,
[even] me also, O my father.
Genesis|27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath
taken away thy blessing.
Genesis|27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now
he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a
blessing for me?
Genesis|27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made
him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and
with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee,
my son?
Genesis|27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing,
my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.
Genesis|27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold,
thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven
from above;
Genesis|27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy
brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that
thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Genesis|27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my
father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis|27:42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to
Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him,
Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself,
[purposing] to kill thee.
Genesis|27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou
to Laban my brother to Haran;
Genesis|27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury
turn away;
Genesis|27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he
forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee
from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
Genesis|27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because
of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth,
such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my
life do me?
Genesis|28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him,
and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis|28:2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban
thy mother's brother.
Genesis|28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
Genesis|28:4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy
seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a
stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Genesis|28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and
Esau's mother.
Genesis|28:6 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him
away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed
him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the
daughters of Canaan;
Genesis|28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was
gone to Padanaram;
Genesis|28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not
Isaac his father;
Genesis|28:9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which
he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of
Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Genesis|28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis|28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place,
and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Genesis|28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth,
and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending
and descending on it.
Genesis|28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the
LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
Genesis|28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to
the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth
be blessed.
Genesis|28:15 And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all
[places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for
I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee
of.
Genesis|28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.
Genesis|28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place!
this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of
heaven.
Genesis|28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured
oil upon the top of it.
Genesis|28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name
of that city [was called] Luz at the first.
Genesis|28:20 And Jacob vowed 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
raiment to put on,
Genesis|28:21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then
shall the LORD be my God:
Genesis|28:22 And this stone, which I have set [for] a pillar, shall be
God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the
tenth unto thee.
Genesis|29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of
the people of the east.
Genesis|29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo,
there [were] three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they
watered the flocks: and a great stone [was] upon the well's mouth.
Genesis|29:3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled
the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone
again upon the well's mouth in his place.
Genesis|29:4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? And
they said, Of Haran [are] we.
Genesis|29:5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know [him].
Genesis|29:6 And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is]
well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
Genesis|29:7 And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it] time
that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go
[and] feed [them].
Genesis|29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and [till] they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we
water the sheep.
Genesis|29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep: for she kept them.
Genesis|29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother,
that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and
watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Genesis|29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and
wept.
Genesis|29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's brother,
and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
Genesis|29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob
his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed
him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
Genesis|29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou [art] my bone and my
flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis|29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou [art] my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what [shall] thy
wages [be]?
Genesis|29:16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder [was]
Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.
Genesis|29:17 Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
favoured.
Genesis|29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Genesis|29:19 And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee,
than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
Genesis|29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed
unto him [but] a few days, for the love he had to her.
Genesis|29:21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give [me] my wife, for my days
are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
Genesis|29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and
made a feast.
Genesis|29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Genesis|29:24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid
[for] an handmaid.
Genesis|29:25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it [was]
Leah: and he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done unto me? did not
I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
Genesis|29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to
give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis|29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Genesis|29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him
Rachel his daughter to wife also.
Genesis|29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid
to be her maid.
Genesis|29:30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel
more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis|29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her
womb: but Rachel [was] barren.
Genesis|29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his
name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction;
now therefore my husband will love me.
Genesis|29:33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because
the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath therefore given me this
[son] also: and she called his name Simeon.
Genesis|29:34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now
this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three
sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
Genesis|29:35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left
bearing.
Genesis|30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Genesis|30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said,
[Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
Genesis|30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and
she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
Genesis|30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob
went in unto her.
Genesis|30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Genesis|30:6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
Genesis|30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
second son.
Genesis|30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with
my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
Genesis|30:9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah
her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis|30:10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
Genesis|30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name
Gad.
Genesis|30:12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis|30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Genesis|30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel
said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
Genesis|30:15 And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that thou
hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also?
And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's
mandrakes.
Genesis|30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah
went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I
have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Genesis|30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare
Jacob the fifth son.
Genesis|30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have
given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
Genesis|30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
Genesis|30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me [with] a good dowry; now
will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she
called his name Zebulun.
Genesis|30:21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name
Dinah.
Genesis|30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb.
Genesis|30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath
taken away my reproach:
Genesis|30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall
add to me another son.
Genesis|30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that
Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and
to my country.
Genesis|30:26 Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served
thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
Genesis|30:27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found
favour in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience that the
LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
Genesis|30:28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give [it].
Genesis|30:29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee,
and how thy cattle was with me.
Genesis|30:30 For [it was] little which thou hadst before I [came], and
it is [now] increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee
since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Genesis|30:31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will
again feed [and] keep thy flock.
Genesis|30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from
thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among
the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such]
shall be my hire.
Genesis|30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come,
when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that [is] not
speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall
be counted stolen with me.
Genesis|30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to
thy word.
Genesis|30:35 And he removed that day the he goats that were
ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and
spotted, [and] every one that had [some] white in it, and all the brown
among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hand of his sons.
Genesis|30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob:
and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Genesis|30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel
and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white
appear which [was] in the rods.
Genesis|30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks
in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when they came to drink.
Genesis|30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought
forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis|30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban;
and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's
cattle.
Genesis|30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the
gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
Genesis|30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put [them] not in: so
the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Genesis|30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle,
and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis|31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath
taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our
father's hath he gotten all this glory.
Genesis|31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it
[was] not toward him as before.
Genesis|31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
Genesis|31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
his flock,
Genesis|31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that
it [is] not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with
me.
Genesis|31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your
father.
Genesis|31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Genesis|31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all
the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be
thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstreaked.
Genesis|31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and
given [them] to me.
Genesis|31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which
leaped upon the cattle [were] ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled.
Genesis|31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, [saying],
Jacob: And I said, Here [am] I.
Genesis|31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
which leap upon the cattle [are] ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled: for I
have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Genesis|31:13 I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the
pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out
from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
Genesis|31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, [Is there]
yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
Genesis|31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us,
and hath quite devoured also our money.
Genesis|31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father,
that [is] ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto
thee, do.
Genesis|31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels;
Genesis|31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods
which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis|31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen
the images that [were] her father's.
Genesis|31:20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that
he told him not that he fled.
Genesis|31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and
passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the mount Gilead.
Genesis|31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was
fled.
Genesis|31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him
seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Genesis|31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and
said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis|31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent
in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
Genesis|31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou
hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives
[taken] with the sword?
Genesis|31:27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away
from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with
mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
Genesis|31:28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
thou hast now done foolishly in [so] doing.
Genesis|31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God
of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou
speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis|31:30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because
thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods?
Genesis|31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was
afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters
from me.
Genesis|31:32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live:
before our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and take [it] to
thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis|31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent,
and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found [them] not. Then went he
out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Genesis|31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the
camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but
found [them] not.
Genesis|31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord
that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women [is] upon me.
And he searched, but found not the images.
Genesis|31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chided with Laban: and Jacob
answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass? what [is] my sin, that
thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Genesis|31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou
found of all thy household stuff? set [it] here before my brethren and thy
brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Genesis|31:38 This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes and
thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I
not eaten.
Genesis|31:39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto thee; I
bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] stolen by
day, or stolen by night.
Genesis|31:40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the
frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Genesis|31:41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and
thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis|31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the
fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty.
God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked
[thee] yesternight.
Genesis|31:43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters
[are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children, and [these]
cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest [is] mine: and what can I
do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have
born?
Genesis|31:44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and
thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Genesis|31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
Genesis|31:46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they
took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
Genesis|31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
Galeed.
Genesis|31:48 And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and
thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Genesis|31:49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and
thee, when we are absent one from another.
Genesis|31:50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take
[other] wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is]
witness betwixt me and thee.
Genesis|31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold
[this] pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
Genesis|31:52 This heap [be] witness, and [this] pillar [be] witness,
that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass
over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Genesis|31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis|31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called
his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in
the mount.
Genesis|31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his
sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned
unto his place.
Genesis|32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis|32:2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and
he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Genesis|32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother
unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis|32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my
lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and
stayed there until now:
Genesis|32:5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in
thy sight.
Genesis|32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to
thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men
with him.
Genesis|32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he
divided the people that [was] with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the
camels, into two bands;
Genesis|32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it,
then the other company which is left shall escape.
Genesis|32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and
to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Genesis|32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of
all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I
passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
Genesis|32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from
the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] the
mother with the children.
Genesis|32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy
seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis|32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that
which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
Genesis|32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred
ewes, and twenty rams,
Genesis|32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Genesis|32:16 And he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants,
every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
Genesis|32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my
brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose [art] thou? and
whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?
Genesis|32:18 Then thou shalt say, [They be] thy servant Jacob's; it
[is] a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he [is] behind us.
Genesis|32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all
that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau,
when ye find him.
Genesis|32:20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob [is] behind
us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me,
and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
Genesis|32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged
that night in the company.
Genesis|32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his
two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
Genesis|32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent
over that he had.
Genesis|32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with
him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis|32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he
touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of
joint, as he wrestled with him.
Genesis|32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said,
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis|32:27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said,
Jacob.
Genesis|32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.
Genesis|32:29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee,
thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my
name? And he blessed him there.
Genesis|32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have
seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Genesis|32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he
halted upon his thigh.
Genesis|32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew
which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis|33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau
came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah,
and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Genesis|33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and
Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Genesis|33:3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis|33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis|33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the
children; and said, Who [are] those with thee? And he said, The children
which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis|33:6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children,
and they bowed themselves.
Genesis|33:7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
Genesis|33:8 And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove which I
met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis|33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou
hast unto thyself.
Genesis|33:10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found
grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I
have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast
pleased with me.
Genesis|33:11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;
because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And
he urged him, and he took [it].
Genesis|33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
will go before thee.
Genesis|33:13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children
[are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if men
should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis|33:14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant:
and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and
the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
Genesis|33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the
folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in
the sight of my lord.
Genesis|33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
Genesis|33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house,
and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called
Succoth.
Genesis|33:18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in
the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent
before the city.
Genesis|33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his
tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an
hundred pieces of money.
Genesis|33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it
Elelohe-Israel.
Genesis|34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob,
went out to see the daughters of the land.
Genesis|34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Genesis|34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
Genesis|34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me
this damsel to wife.
Genesis|34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until
they were come.
Genesis|34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to
commune with him.
Genesis|34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
[it]: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had
wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought
not to be done.
Genesis|34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son
Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
Genesis|34:9 And make ye marriages with us, [and] give your daughters
unto us, and take our daughters unto you.
Genesis|34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before
you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Genesis|34:11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren,
Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
Genesis|34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give
according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Genesis|34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his
father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
Genesis|34:14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give
our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that [were] a reproach unto
us:
Genesis|34:15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we
[be], that every male of you be circumcised;
Genesis|34:16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take
your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one
people.
Genesis|34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised;
then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
Genesis|34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
Genesis|34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he
had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he [was] more honourable than all the
house of his father.
Genesis|34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
Genesis|34:21 These men [are] peaceable with us; therefore let them
dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, [it is] large
enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us
give them our daughters.
Genesis|34:22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with
us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they [are]
circumcised.
Genesis|34:23 [Shall] not their cattle and their substance and every
beast of theirs [be] ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will
dwell with us.
Genesis|34:24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that
went out of the gate of his city.
Genesis|34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,
that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each
man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Genesis|34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of
the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
Genesis|34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the
city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis|34:28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses,
and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field,
Genesis|34:29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their
wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house.
Genesis|34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to
make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites
and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather
themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I
and my house.
Genesis|34:31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an
harlot?
Genesis|35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell
there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou
fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis|35:2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that [were]
with him, Put away the strange gods that [are] among you, and be clean, and
change your garments:
Genesis|35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make
there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was
with me in the way which I went.
Genesis|35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were]
in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and
Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.
Genesis|35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the
cities that [were] round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons
of Jacob.
Genesis|35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan,
that [is], Bethel, he and all the people that [were] with him.
Genesis|35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his
brother.
Genesis|35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried
beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
Genesis|35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padanaram, and blessed him.
Genesis|35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name shall
not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called
his name Israel.
Genesis|35:11 And God said unto him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful
and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings
shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis|35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I
will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Genesis|35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him.
Genesis|35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked
with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon,
and he poured oil thereon.
Genesis|35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake
with him, Bethel.
Genesis|35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little
way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Genesis|35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
Genesis|35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for
she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him
Benjamin.
Genesis|35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath,
which [is] Bethlehem.
Genesis|35:20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the
pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Genesis|35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower
of Edar.
Genesis|35:22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that
Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard
[it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis|35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon,
and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Genesis|35:24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Genesis|35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and
Naphtali:
Genesis|35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher:
these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
Genesis|35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the
city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis|35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Genesis|35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered
unto his people, [being] old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob
buried him.
Genesis|36:1 Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom.
Genesis|36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the
daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis|36:3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
Genesis|36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Genesis|36:5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these
[are] the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis|36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters,
and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and
all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into
the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis|36:7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell
together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them
because of their cattle.
Genesis|36:8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau [is] Edom.
Genesis|36:9 And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis|36:10 These [are] the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of
Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
Genesis|36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and
Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis|36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she
bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
Genesis|36:13 And these [are] the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah,
Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis|36:14 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of
Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and
Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis|36:15 These [were] dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of
Eliphaz the firstborn [son] of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho,
duke Kenaz,
Genesis|36:16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, [and] duke Amalek: these [are] the
dukes [that came] of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these [were] the sons of
Adah.
Genesis|36:17 And these [are] the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath,
duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these [are] the dukes [that came] of
Reuel in the land of Edom; these [are] the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis|36:18 And these [are] the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke
Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these [were] the dukes [that came] of
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
Genesis|36:19 These [are] the sons of Esau, who [is] Edom, and these
[are] their dukes.
Genesis|36:20 These [are] the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the
land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
Genesis|36:21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these [are] the dukes of
the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis|36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's
sister [was] Timna.
Genesis|36:23 And the children of Shobal [were] these; Alvan, and
Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
Genesis|36:24 And these [are] the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and
Anah: this [was that] Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he
fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
Genesis|36:25 And the children of Anah [were] these; Dishon, and
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
Genesis|36:26 And these [are] the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and
Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
Genesis|36:27 The children of Ezer [are] these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and
Akan.
Genesis|36:28 The children of Dishan [are] these; Uz, and Aran.
Genesis|36:29 These [are] the dukes [that came] of the Horites; duke
Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
Genesis|36:30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these [are] the dukes
[that came] of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
Genesis|36:31 And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of
Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis|36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of
his city [was] Dinhabah.
Genesis|36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
reigned in his stead.
Genesis|36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned
in his stead.
Genesis|36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote
Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city
[was] Avith.
Genesis|36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his
stead.
Genesis|36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth [by] the river
reigned in his stead.
Genesis|36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in
his stead.
Genesis|36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in
his stead: and the name of his city [was] Pau; and his wife's name [was]
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Genesis|36:40 And these [are] the names of the dukes [that came] of
Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke
Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
Genesis|36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
Genesis|36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
Genesis|36:43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these [be] the dukes of Edom,
according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he [is]
Esau the father of the Edomites.
Genesis|37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a
stranger, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis|37:2 These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being]
seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad
[was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's
wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
Genesis|37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because
he [was] the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of [many] colours.
Genesis|37:4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more
than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto
him.
Genesis|37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren:
and they hated him yet the more.
Genesis|37:6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I
have dreamed:
Genesis|37:7 For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the field, and,
lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood
round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Genesis|37:8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over
us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the
more for his dreams, and for his words.
Genesis|37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren,
and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the
moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Genesis|37:10 And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren: and
his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What [is] this dream that thou
hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow
down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Genesis|37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the
saying.
Genesis|37:12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in
Shechem.
Genesis|37:13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the
flock] in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to
him, Here [am I].
Genesis|37:14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be
well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again.
So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis|37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, [he was]
wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
Genesis|37:16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee,
where they feed [their flocks].
Genesis|37:17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard
them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and
found them in Dothan.
Genesis|37:18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near
unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Genesis|37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
Genesis|37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall
see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis|37:21 And Reuben heard [it], and he delivered him out of their
hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
Genesis|37:22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, [but] cast him
into this pit that [is] in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that
he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Genesis|37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his
brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, [his] coat of [many]
colours that [was] on him;
Genesis|37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit
[was] empty, [there was] no water in it.
Genesis|37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their
eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead
with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry [it]
down to Egypt.
Genesis|37:26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit [is it] if
we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
Genesis|37:27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not
our hand be upon him; for he [is] our brother [and] our flesh. And his
brethren were content.
Genesis|37:28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew
and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for
twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis|37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph
[was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Genesis|37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child
[is] not; and I, whither shall I go?
Genesis|37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the
goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Genesis|37:32 And they sent the coat of [many] colours, and they brought
[it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it
[be] thy son's coat or no.
Genesis|37:33 And he knew it, and said, [It is] my son's coat; an evil
beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Genesis|37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his
loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis|37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort
him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into
the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis|37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh's, [and] captain of the guard.
Genesis|38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from
his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name [was]
Hirah.
Genesis|38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite,
whose name [was] Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
Genesis|38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name
Er.
Genesis|38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his
name Onan.
Genesis|38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his
name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
Genesis|38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name
[was] Tamar.
Genesis|38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the
LORD; and the LORD slew him.
Genesis|38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife,
and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Genesis|38:9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came
to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled [it] on
the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
Genesis|38:10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore
he slew him also.
Genesis|38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a
widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest
peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt
in her father's house.
Genesis|38:12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife
died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to
Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Genesis|38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law
goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
Genesis|38:14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered
her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which [is]
by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not
given unto him to wife.
Genesis|38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot;
because she had covered her face.
Genesis|38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray
thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she [was] his
daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest
come in unto me?
Genesis|38:17 And he said, I will send [thee] a kid from the flock. And
she said, Wilt thou give [me] a pledge, till thou send [it]?
Genesis|38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said,
Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And
he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
Genesis|38:19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her veil from
her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Genesis|38:20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the
Adullamite, to receive [his] pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her
not.
Genesis|38:21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where [is]
the harlot, that [was] openly by the way side? And they said, There was no
harlot in this [place].
Genesis|38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and
also the men of the place said, [that] there was no harlot in this [place].
Genesis|38:23 And Judah said, Let her take [it] to her, lest we be
shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
Genesis|38:24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was
told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and
also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her
forth, and let her be burnt.
Genesis|38:25 When she [was] brought forth, she sent to her father in
law, saying, By the man, whose these [are, am] I with child: and she said,
Discern, I pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and
staff.
Genesis|38:26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been
more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he
knew her again no more.
Genesis|38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that,
behold, twins [were] in her womb.
Genesis|38:28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one]
put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet
thread, saying, This came out first.
Genesis|38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that,
behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth?
[this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
Genesis|38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet
thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
Genesis|39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the
hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis|39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man;
and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis|39:3 And his master saw that the LORD [was] with him, and that
the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis|39:4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and
he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] he had he put into his
hand.
Genesis|39:5 And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him
overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the
Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon
all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Genesis|39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew
not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was [a]
goodly [person], and well favoured.
Genesis|39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's
wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Genesis|39:8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my
master wotteth not what [is] with me in the house, and he hath committed
all that he hath to my hand;
Genesis|39:9 [There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath
he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how
then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis|39:10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day,
that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her.
Genesis|39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph] went
into the house to do his business; and [there was] none of the men of the
house there within.
Genesis|39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me:
and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis|39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his
garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
Genesis|39:14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto
them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came
in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
Genesis|39:15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my
voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him
out.
Genesis|39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came
home.
Genesis|39:17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying,
The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to
mock me:
Genesis|39:18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried,
that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
Genesis|39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of
his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy
servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis|39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison,
a place where the king's prisoners [were] bound: and he was there in the
prison.
Genesis|39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and
gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis|39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand
all the prisoners that [were] in the prison; and whatsoever they did there,
he was the doer [of it].
Genesis|39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing [that
was] under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and [that] which he
did, the LORD made [it] to prosper.
Genesis|40:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler
of the king of Egypt and [his] baker had offended their lord the king of
Egypt.
Genesis|40:2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two [of] his officers,
against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis|40:3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the
guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.
Genesis|40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and
he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
Genesis|40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream
in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the
butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which [were] bound in the
prison.
Genesis|40:6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked
upon them, and, behold, they [were] sad.
Genesis|40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that [were] with him in the
ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye [so] sadly to day?
Genesis|40:8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and [there
is] no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, [Do] not
interpretations [belong] to God? tell me [them], I pray you.
Genesis|40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to
him, In my dream, behold, a vine [was] before me;
Genesis|40:10 And in the vine [were] three branches: and it [was] as
though it budded, [and] her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof
brought forth ripe grapes:
Genesis|40:11 And Pharaoh's cup [was] in my hand: and I took the grapes,
and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand.
Genesis|40:12 And Joseph said unto him, This [is] the interpretation of
it: The three branches [are] three days:
Genesis|40:13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head,
and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into
his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Genesis|40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and show
kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and
bring me out of this house:
Genesis|40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the
Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the
dungeon.
Genesis|40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good,
he said unto Joseph, I also [was] in my dream, and, behold, [I had] three
white baskets on my head:
Genesis|40:17 And in the uppermost basket [there was] of all manner of
bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my
head.
Genesis|40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This [is] the interpretation
thereof: The three baskets [are] three days:
Genesis|40:19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from
off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh
from off thee.
Genesis|40:20 And it came to pass the third day, [which was] Pharaoh's
birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the
head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis|40:21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership
again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
Genesis|40:22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted
to them.
Genesis|40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat
him.
Genesis|41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that
Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Genesis|41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well
favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
Genesis|41:3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the
river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the [other] kine upon the
brink of the river.
Genesis|41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the
seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
Genesis|41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold,
seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
Genesis|41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind
sprung up after them.
Genesis|41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full
ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream.
Genesis|41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was
troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all
the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none
that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis|41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
remember my faults this day:
Genesis|41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in
the captain of the guard's house, [both] me and the chief baker:
Genesis|41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed
each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Genesis|41:12 And [there was] there with us a young man, an Hebrew,
servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to
us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
Genesis|41:13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was;
me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Genesis|41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved [himself], and changed his
raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Genesis|41:15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and
[there is] none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, [that]
thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
Genesis|41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me:
God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Genesis|41:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood
upon the bank of the river:
Genesis|41:18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
Genesis|41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and
very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of
Egypt for badness:
Genesis|41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the
first seven fat kine:
Genesis|41:21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known
that they had eaten them; but they [were] still ill favoured, as at the
beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis|41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in
one stalk, full and good:
Genesis|41:23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, [and] blasted
with the east wind, sprung up after them:
Genesis|41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told
[this] unto the magicians; but [there was] none that could declare [it] to
me.
Genesis|41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is]
one: God hath showed Pharaoh what he [is] about to do.
Genesis|41:26 The seven good kine [are] seven years; and the seven good
ears [are] seven years: the dream [is] one.
Genesis|41:27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up
after them [are] seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the
east wind shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis|41:28 This [is] the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What
God [is] about to do he showeth unto Pharaoh.
Genesis|41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout
all the land of Egypt:
Genesis|41:30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine;
and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine
shall consume the land;
Genesis|41:31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of
that famine following; for it [shall be] very grievous.
Genesis|41:32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; [it
is] because the thing [is] established by God, and God will shortly bring
it to pass.
Genesis|41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and
wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:34 Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint officers over
the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven
plenteous years.
Genesis|41:35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that
come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in
the cities.
Genesis|41:36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the
seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land
perish not through the famine.
Genesis|41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of all his servants.
Genesis|41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a
one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?
Genesis|41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed
thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art]:
Genesis|41:40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word
shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than
thou.
Genesis|41:41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over
all the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it
upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a
gold chain about his neck;
Genesis|41:43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he
had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him [ruler] over
all the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I [am] Pharaoh, and without
thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he
gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And
Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:46 And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood before
Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,
and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth
by handfuls.
Genesis|41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which
were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of
the field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the same.
Genesis|41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very
much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
Genesis|41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of
famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare
unto him.
Genesis|41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For
God, [said he], hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
Genesis|41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Genesis|41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land
of Egypt, were ended.
Genesis|41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as
Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of
Egypt there was bread.
Genesis|41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people
cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go
unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
Genesis|41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And
Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the
famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis|41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy
[corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in all lands.
Genesis|42:1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said
unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Genesis|42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in
Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live,
and not die.
Genesis|42:3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis|42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
Genesis|42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that
came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis|42:6 And Joseph [was] the governor over the land, [and] he [it
was] that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came,
and bowed down themselves before him [with] their faces to the earth.
Genesis|42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto
them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis|42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis|42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them,
and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are
come.
Genesis|42:10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are
thy servants come.
Genesis|42:11 We [are] all one man's sons; we [are] true [men], thy
servants are no spies.
Genesis|42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of
the land ye are come.
Genesis|42:13 And they said, Thy servants [are] twelve brethren, the
sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest [is] this
day with our father, and one [is] not.
Genesis|42:14 And Joseph said unto them, That [is it] that I spake unto
you, saying, Ye [are] spies:
Genesis|42:15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall
not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Genesis|42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye
shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether [there be
any] truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye [are] spies.
Genesis|42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
Genesis|42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and
live; [for] I fear God:
Genesis|42:19 If ye [be] true [men], let one of your brethren be bound
in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses:
Genesis|42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your
words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Genesis|42:21 And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he
besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon
us.
Genesis|42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore,
behold, also his blood is required.
Genesis|42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood [them]; for he
spake unto them by an interpreter.
Genesis|42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and
returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon,
and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis|42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and
to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for
the way: and thus did he unto them.
Genesis|42:26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed
thence.
Genesis|42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass
provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it [was] in his
sack's mouth.
Genesis|42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and,
lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were
afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?
Genesis|42:29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of
Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
Genesis|42:30 The man, [who is] the lord of the land, spake roughly to
us, and took us for spies of the country.
Genesis|42:31 And we said unto him, We [are] true [men]; we are no
spies:
Genesis|42:32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one [is] not,
and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis|42:33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby
shall I know that ye [are] true [men]; leave one of your brethren [here]
with me, and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be gone:
Genesis|42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know
that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I deliver
you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
Genesis|42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that,
behold, every man's bundle of money [was] in his sack: and when [both] they
and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Genesis|42:36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved
[of my children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take
Benjamin [away]: all these things are against me.
Genesis|42:37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two
sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will
bring him to thee again.
Genesis|42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his
brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in
the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the
grave.
Genesis|43:1 And the famine [was] sore in the land.
Genesis|43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which
they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy
us a little food.
Genesis|43:3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly
protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be]
with you.
Genesis|43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and
buy thee food:
Genesis|43:5 But if thou wilt not send [him], we will not go down: for
the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be]
with you.
Genesis|43:6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye [so] ill with me, [as]
to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
Genesis|43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and
of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another]
brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we
certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Genesis|43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with
me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and
thou, [and] also our little ones.
Genesis|43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require
him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me
bear the blame for ever:
Genesis|43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned
this second time.
Genesis|43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If [it must be] so
now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and
carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices,
and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Genesis|43:12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was
brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand;
peradventure it [was] an oversight:
Genesis|43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
Genesis|43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he
may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my
children], I am bereaved.
Genesis|43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double money
in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood
before Joseph.
Genesis|43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the
ruler of his house, Bring [these] men home, and slay, and make ready; for
[these] men shall dine with me at noon.
Genesis|43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the
men into Joseph's house.
Genesis|43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into
Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in
our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
Genesis|43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and
they communed with him at the door of the house,
Genesis|43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to
buy food:
Genesis|43:21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we
opened our sacks, and, behold, [every] man's money [was] in the mouth of
his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our
hand.
Genesis|43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy
food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
Genesis|43:23 And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: your God, and
the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your
money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
Genesis|43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave
[them] water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender.
Genesis|43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at
noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis|43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present
which [was] in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to
the earth.
Genesis|43:27 And he asked them of [their] welfare, and said, [Is] your
father well, the old man of whom ye spake? [Is] he yet alive?
Genesis|43:28 And they answered, Thy servant our father [is] in good
health, he [is] yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made
obeisance.
Genesis|43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin,
his mother's son, and said, [Is] this your younger brother, of whom ye
spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Genesis|43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
brother: and he sought [where] to weep; and he entered into [his] chamber,
and wept there.
Genesis|43:31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained
himself, and said, Set on bread.
Genesis|43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by
themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves:
because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is]
an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Genesis|43:33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled
one at another.
Genesis|43:34 And he took [and sent] messes unto them from before him:
but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they
drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis|44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the
men's sacks [with] food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's
money in his sack's mouth.
Genesis|44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the
youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph
had spoken.
Genesis|44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,
they and their asses.
Genesis|44:4 [And] when they were gone out of the city, [and] not [yet]
far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when
thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
good?
Genesis|44:5 [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and whereby
indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Genesis|44:6 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same
words.
Genesis|44:7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these
words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
Genesis|44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal
out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
Genesis|44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him
die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
Genesis|44:10 And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto your
words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be
blameless.
Genesis|44:11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the
ground, and opened every man his sack.
Genesis|44:12 And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left at
the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis|44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass,
and returned to the city.
Genesis|44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he
[was] yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
Genesis|44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this that ye
have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Genesis|44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall
we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity
of thy servants: behold, we [are] my lord's servants, both we, and [he]
also with whom the cup is found.
Genesis|44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man
in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get
you up in peace unto your father.
Genesis|44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let
thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine
anger burn against thy servant: for thou [art] even as Pharaoh.
Genesis|44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a
brother?
Genesis|44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man,
and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he
alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Genesis|44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me,
that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Genesis|44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father:
for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die.
Genesis|44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest
brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Genesis|44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my
father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis|44:25 And our father said, Go again, [and] buy us a little food.
Genesis|44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be
with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except
our youngest brother [be] with us.
Genesis|44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my
wife bare me two [sons]:
Genesis|44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is
torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Genesis|44:29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him,
ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis|44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and
the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's
life;
Genesis|44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad [is] not
[with us], that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray
hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis|44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,
saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my
father for ever.
Genesis|44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead
of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Genesis|44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not
with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis|45:1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that
stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there
stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
Genesis|45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of
Pharaoh heard.
Genesis|45:3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I [am] Joseph; doth my
father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
Genesis|45:4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray
you. And they came near. And he said, I [am] Joseph your brother, whom ye
sold into Egypt.
Genesis|45:5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves,
that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis|45:6 For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land:
and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be]
earing nor harvest.
Genesis|45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in
the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis|45:8 So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and
he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis|45:9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus
saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto
me, tarry not:
Genesis|45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt
be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and
thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
Genesis|45:11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet [there are] five
years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come
to poverty.
Genesis|45:12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benjamin, that [it is] my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis|45:13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and
of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father
hither.
Genesis|45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept;
and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Genesis|45:15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them:
and after that his brethren talked with him.
Genesis|45:16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
Genesis|45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This
do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Genesis|45:18 And take your father and your households, and come unto
me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the
fat of the land.
Genesis|45:19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of
the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your
father, and come.
Genesis|45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land
of Egypt [is] yours.
Genesis|45:21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them
wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision
for the way.
Genesis|45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred [pieces] of silver, and five changes of
raiment.
Genesis|45:23 And to his father he sent after this [manner]; ten asses
laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and
bread and meat for his father by the way.
Genesis|45:24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he
said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Genesis|45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of
Canaan unto Jacob their father,
Genesis|45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is]
governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he
believed them not.
Genesis|45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had
said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry
him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
Genesis|45:28 And Israel said, [It is] enough; Joseph my son [is] yet
alive: I will go and see him before I die.
Genesis|46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came
to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis|46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and
said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here [am] I.
Genesis|46:3 And he said, I [am] God, the God of thy father: fear not to
go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
Genesis|46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely
bring thee up [again]: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
Genesis|46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel
carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis|46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had
gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed
with him:
Genesis|46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and
his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Genesis|46:8 And these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which
came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Genesis|46:9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi.
Genesis|46:10 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
Genesis|46:11 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis|46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and
Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons
of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis|46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and
Shimron.
Genesis|46:14 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis|46:15 These [be] the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in
Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his
daughters [were] thirty and three.
Genesis|46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon,
Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis|46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and
Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and
Malchiel.
Genesis|46:18 These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah
his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, [even] sixteen souls.
Genesis|46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
Genesis|46:20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh
and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare
unto him.
Genesis|46:21 And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, and Becher, and
Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
Genesis|46:22 These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob:
all the souls [were] fourteen.
Genesis|46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
Genesis|46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer,
and Shillem.
Genesis|46:25 These [are] the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto
Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls [were]
seven.
Genesis|46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came
out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls [were]
threescore and six;
Genesis|46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt,
[were] two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into
Egypt, [were] threescore and ten.
Genesis|46:28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his
face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis|46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet
Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell
on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis|46:30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have
seen thy face, because thou [art] yet alive.
Genesis|46:31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's
house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and
my father's house, which [were] in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
Genesis|46:32 And the men [are] shepherds, for their trade hath been to
feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all
that they have.
Genesis|46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you,
and shall say, What [is] your occupation?
Genesis|46:34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about
cattle from our youth even until now, both we, [and] also our fathers: that
ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd [is] an abomination
unto the Egyptians.
Genesis|47:1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and
my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are
come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they [are] in the land of
Goshen.
Genesis|47:2 And he took some of his brethren, [even] five men, and
presented them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis|47:3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What [is] your
occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants [are] shepherds, both
we, [and] also our fathers.
Genesis|47:4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land
are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the
famine [is] sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let
thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Genesis|47:5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
brethren are come unto thee:
Genesis|47:6 The land of Egypt [is] before thee; in the best of the land
make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them
dwell: and if thou knowest [any] men of activity among them, then make them
rulers over my cattle.
Genesis|47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis|47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old [art] thou?
Genesis|47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of
the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years
of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis|47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before
Pharaoh.
Genesis|47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave
them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the
land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis|47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all
his father's household, with bread, according to [their] families.
Genesis|47:13 And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine
[was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan
fainted by reason of the famine.
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 corn which they bought:
and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis|47:15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the
land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us
bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
Genesis|47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for
your cattle, if money fail.
Genesis|47:17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave
them bread [in exchange] for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle
of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their
cattle for that year.
Genesis|47:18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second
year, and said unto him, We will not hide [it] from my lord, how that our
money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought
left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
Genesis|47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants
unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and not die, that the
land be not desolate.
Genesis|47:20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for
the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over
them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis|47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
[one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.
Genesis|47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the
priests had a portion [assigned them] of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion
which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Genesis|47:23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought
you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye
shall sow the land.
Genesis|47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall
give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for
seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and
for food for your little ones.
Genesis|47:25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find
grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Genesis|47:26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this
day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the
priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh's.
Genesis|47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of
Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied
exceedingly.
Genesis|47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so
the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Genesis|47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called
his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight,
put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with
me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
Genesis|47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me
out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as
thou hast said.
Genesis|47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And
Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Genesis|48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told
Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis|48:2 And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph
cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
Genesis|48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me
at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Genesis|48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give
this land to thy seed after thee [for] an everlasting possession.
Genesis|48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are]
mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Genesis|48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be
thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in their
inheritance.
Genesis|48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in
the land of Canaan in the way, when yet [there was] but a little way to
come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same
[is] Bethlehem.
Genesis|48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who [are] these?
Genesis|48:9 And Joseph said unto his father, They [are] my sons, whom
God hath given me in this [place]. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee,
unto me, and I will bless them.
Genesis|48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, [so that] he
could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and
embraced them.
Genesis|48:11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy
face: and, lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.
Genesis|48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he
bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis|48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand
toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's
right hand, and brought [them] near unto him.
Genesis|48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid [it]
upon Ephraim's head, who [was] the younger, and his left hand upon
Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh [was] the
firstborn.
Genesis|48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my
fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long
unto this day,
Genesis|48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads;
and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and
Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Genesis|48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand
upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's
hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Genesis|48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for
this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis|48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I
know [it]: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but
truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall
become a multitude of nations.
Genesis|48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel
bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim
before Manasseh.
Genesis|48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall
be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Genesis|48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy
brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and
with my bow.
Genesis|49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in the last
days.
Genesis|49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
Genesis|49:3 Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power:
Genesis|49:4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou
wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou [it]: he went up to my
couch.
Genesis|49:5 Simeon and Levi [are] brethren; instruments of cruelty [are
in] their habitations.
Genesis|49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their
assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a
man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Genesis|49:7 Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce; and their
wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in
Israel.
Genesis|49:8 Judah, thou [art he] whom thy brethren shall praise: thy
hand [shall be] in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall
bow down before thee.
Genesis|49:9 Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art
gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who
shall rouse him up?
Genesis|49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver
from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the
gathering of the people [be].
Genesis|49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto
the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the
blood of grapes:
Genesis|49:12 His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white
with milk.
Genesis|49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he [shall
be] for an haven of ships; and his border [shall be] unto Zidon.
Genesis|49:14 Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two
burdens:
Genesis|49:15 And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it
was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto
tribute.
Genesis|49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of
Israel.
Genesis|49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path,
that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Genesis|49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Genesis|49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at
the last.
Genesis|49:20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield
royal dainties.
Genesis|49:21 Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Genesis|49:22 Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a
well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
Genesis|49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him],
and hated him:
Genesis|49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands
were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence
[is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Genesis|49:25 [Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and
by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of
the womb:
Genesis|49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him
that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis|49:27 Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis|49:28 All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this [is
it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one
according to his blessing he blessed them.
Genesis|49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be
gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in
the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis|49:30 In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which
[is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the
field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Genesis|49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Genesis|49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is]
therein [was] from the children of Heth.
Genesis|49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was
gathered unto his people.
Genesis|50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him,
and kissed him.
Genesis|50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm
his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis|50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him
threescore and ten days.
Genesis|50:4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake
unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,
speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Genesis|50:5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave
which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me.
Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will
come again.
Genesis|50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as
he made thee swear.
Genesis|50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of
the land of Egypt,
Genesis|50:8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his
father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds,
they left in the land of Goshen.
Genesis|50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and
it was a very great company.
Genesis|50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which [is]
beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore
lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis|50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw
the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning
to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which
[is] beyond Jordan.
Genesis|50:12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Genesis|50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and
buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with
the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before
Mamre.
Genesis|50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and
all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his
father.
Genesis|50:15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us
all the evil which we did unto him.
Genesis|50:16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father
did command before he died, saying,
Genesis|50:17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the
trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and
now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy
father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
Genesis|50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face;
and they said, Behold, we [be] thy servants.
Genesis|50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the
place of God?
Genesis|50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God
meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much
people alive.
Genesis|50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your
little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Genesis|50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Genesis|50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third
[generation]: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought
up upon Joseph's knees.
Genesis|50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will
surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he
sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Genesis|50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,
God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Genesis|50:26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and
they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus|1:1 Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel, which
came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus|1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus|1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exodus|1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Exodus|1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
Exodus|1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
generation.
Exodus|1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was
filled with them.
Exodus|1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
Exodus|1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we:
Exodus|1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply,
and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also
unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [so] get them up out of the
land.
Exodus|1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
Raamses.
Exodus|1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied
and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus|1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with
rigour:
Exodus|1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in
mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their
service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour.
Exodus|1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Exodus|1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the
Hebrew women, and see [them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye
shall kill him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus|1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of
Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus|1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto
them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Exodus|1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
[are] not as the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered
ere the midwives come in unto them.
Exodus|1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus|1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that
he made them houses.
Exodus|1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that
is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save
alive.
Exodus|2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife]
a daughter of Levi.
Exodus|2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months.
Exodus|2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an
ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus|2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to
him.
Exodus|2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash [herself] at
the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she
saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Exodus|2:6 And when she had opened [it], she saw the child: and, behold,
the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of
the Hebrews' children.
Exodus|2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and
call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for
thee?
Exodus|2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child's mother.
Exodus|2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away,
and nurse it for me, and I will give [thee] thy wages. And the woman took
the child, and nursed it.
Exodus|2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she
said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Exodus|2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown,
that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he
spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exodus|2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
[there was] no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Exodus|2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore
smitest thou thy fellow?
Exodus|2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared,
and said, Surely this thing is known.
Exodus|2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:
and he sat down by a well.
Exodus|2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
and drew [water], and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Exodus|2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood
up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Exodus|2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How [is
it that] ye are come so soon to day?
Exodus|2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of
the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the flock.
Exodus|2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where [is] he? why [is]
it [that] ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
Exodus|2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave
Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Exodus|2:22 And she bare [him] a son, and he called his name Gershom:
for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Exodus|2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of
Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and
they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus|2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus|2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had
respect unto [them].
Exodus|3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the
priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and
came to the mountain of God, [even] to Horeb.
Exodus|3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of
fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush
burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.
Exodus|3:3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great
sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Exodus|3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said,
Here [am] I.
Exodus|3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off
thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.
Exodus|3:6 Moreover he said, I [am] the God of thy 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 upon God.
Exodus|3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my
people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus|3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a
large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exodus|3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is
come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians
oppress them.
Exodus|3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus|3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Exodus|3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall
be] a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth
the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Exodus|3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come unto the
children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath
sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What [is] his name? what shall
I say unto them?
Exodus|3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exodus|3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto
the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [is] my
name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto all generations.
Exodus|3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto
them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that
which is done to you in Egypt:
Exodus|3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction
of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a
land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus|3:18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come,
thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say
unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go,
we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may
sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exodus|3:19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go,
no, not by a mighty hand.
Exodus|3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let
you go.
Exodus|3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go
empty:
Exodus|3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her
that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment: and ye shall put [them] upon your sons, and upon your daughters;
and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus|4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not
believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not
appeared unto thee.
Exodus|4:2 And the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And
he said, A rod.
Exodus|4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the
ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Exodus|4:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take
it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a
rod in his hand:
Exodus|4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto
thee.
Exodus|4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it
out, behold, his hand [was] leprous as snow.
Exodus|4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put
his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and,
behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.
Exodus|4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee,
neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the
voice of the latter sign.
Exodus|4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also
these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of
the water of the river, and pour [it] upon the dry [land]: and the water
which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land].
Exodus|4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I [am] not
eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant:
but I [am] slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Exodus|4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or
who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the
LORD?
Exodus|4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach
thee what thou shalt say.
Exodus|4:13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand [of
him whom] thou wilt send.
Exodus|4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he
said, [Is] not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he
will be glad in his heart.
Exodus|4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth:
and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what
ye shall do.
Exodus|4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall
be, [even] he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him
instead of God.
Exodus|4:17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou
shalt do signs.
Exodus|4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and
said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which
[are] in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to
Moses, Go in peace.
Exodus|4:19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into
Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
Exodus|4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an
ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in
his hand.
Exodus|4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put
in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the
people go.
Exodus|4:22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel
[is] my son, [even] my firstborn:
Exodus|4:23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me:
and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, [even] thy
firstborn.
Exodus|4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met
him, and sought to kill him.
Exodus|4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin
of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband
[art] thou to me.
Exodus|4:26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou
art], because of the circumcision.
Exodus|4:27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
Exodus|4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent
him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
Exodus|4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the
elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus|4:30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto
Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus|4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD
had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exodus|5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast
unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus|5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who [is] the LORD, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Exodus|5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let
us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice
unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword.
Exodus|5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses
and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
Exodus|5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are]
many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus|5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
people, and their officers, saying,
Exodus|5:7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as
heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exodus|5:8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore,
ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish [ought] thereof: for they
[be] idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go [and] sacrifice to our
God.
Exodus|5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may
labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus|5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will
not give you straw.
Exodus|5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of
your work shall be diminished.
Exodus|5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land
of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Exodus|5:13 And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your
works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus|5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have
ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as
heretofore?
Exodus|5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus|5:16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to
us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is]
in thine own people.
Exodus|5:17 But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye say,
Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus|5:18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be
given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Exodus|5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see [that]
they [were] in evil [case], after it was said, Ye shall not minish [ought]
from your bricks of your daily task.
Exodus|5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
Exodus|5:21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and
in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exodus|5:22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore
hast thou [so] evil entreated this people? why [is] it [that] thou hast
sent me?
Exodus|5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath
done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
Exodus|6:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will
do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a
strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
Exodus|6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I [am] the LORD:
Exodus|6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
[the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Exodus|6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were
strangers.
Exodus|6:5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Exodus|6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD,
and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched
out arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus|6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you
a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus|6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I
did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it
you for an heritage: I [am] the LORD.
Exodus|6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Exodus|6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus|6:12 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the
children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear
me, who [am] of uncircumcised lips?
Exodus|6:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them
a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to
bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus|6:14 These [be] the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of
Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these
[be] the families of Reuben.
Exodus|6:15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these [are]
the families of Simeon.
Exodus|6:16 And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to
their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the
life of Levi [were] an hundred thirty and seven years.
Exodus|6:17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their
families.
Exodus|6:18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath [were] an hundred thirty and
three years.
Exodus|6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these [are] the
families of Levi according to their generations.
Exodus|6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and
she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an
hundred and thirty and seven years.
Exodus|6:21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
Exodus|6:22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
Exodus|6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister
of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
Exodus|6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph:
these [are] the families of the Korhites.
Exodus|6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him [one] of the daughters of
Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these [are] the heads of the
fathers of the Levites according to their families.
Exodus|6:26 These [are] that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said,
Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their
armies.
Exodus|6:27 These [are] they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to
bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these [are] that Moses and
Aaron.
Exodus|6:28 And it came to pass on the day [when] the LORD spake unto
Moses in the land of Egypt,
Exodus|6:29 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I [am] the LORD:
speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
Exodus|6:30 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I [am] of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
Exodus|7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to
Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Exodus|7:2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy
brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out
of his land.
Exodus|7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and
my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus|7:4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my
hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, [and] my people the children
of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Exodus|7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I
stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel
from among them.
Exodus|7:6 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did
they.
Exodus|7:7 And Moses [was] fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and
three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Exodus|7:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Exodus|7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for
you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before
Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a serpent.
Exodus|7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as
the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and
before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exodus|7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now
the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their
enchantments.
Exodus|7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Exodus|7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto
them; as the LORD had said.
Exodus|7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart [is] hardened,
he refuseth to let the people go.
Exodus|7:15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto
the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and
the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
Exodus|7:16 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews
hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in
the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
Exodus|7:17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I [am] the
LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that [is] in mine hand upon the
waters which [are] in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
Exodus|7:18 And the fish that [is] in the river shall die, and the river
shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the
river.
Exodus|7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams,
upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water,
that they may become blood; and [that] there may be blood throughout all
the land of Egypt, both in [vessels of] wood, and in [vessels of] stone.
Exodus|7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he
lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that [were] in the river, in the
sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that
[were] in the river were turned to blood.
Exodus|7:21 And the fish that [was] in the river died; and the river
stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and
there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus|7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments:
and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the
LORD had said.
Exodus|7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he
set his heart to this also.
Exodus|7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water
to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Exodus|7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had
smitten the river.
Exodus|8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus|8:2 And if thou refuse to let [them] go, behold, I will smite all
thy borders with frogs:
Exodus|8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall
go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,
and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine
ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
Exodus|8:4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy
people, and upon all thy servants.
Exodus|8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth
thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the
ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus|8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt;
and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
Exodus|8:7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought
up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus|8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat
the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and
I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
Exodus|8:9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I
entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the
frogs from thee and thy houses, [that] they may remain in the river only?
Exodus|8:10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, [Be it] according to
thy word: that thou mayest know that [there is] none like unto the LORD our
God.
Exodus|8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses,
and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river
only.
Exodus|8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried
unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
Exodus|8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the
frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
Exodus|8:14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land
stank.
Exodus|8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his
heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Exodus|8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out
thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout
all the land of Egypt.
Exodus|8:17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his
rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in
beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of
Egypt.
Exodus|8:18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring
forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon
beast.
Exodus|8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This [is] the finger
of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them;
as the LORD had said.
Exodus|8:20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus|8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send
swarms [of flies] upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people,
and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of
swarms [of flies], and also the ground whereon they [are].
Exodus|8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my
people dwell, that no swarms [of flies] shall be there; to the end thou
mayest know that I [am] the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus|8:23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people:
to morrow shall this sign be.
Exodus|8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm [of
flies] into the house of Pharaoh, and [into] his servants' houses, and into
all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm [of
flies].
Exodus|8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,
sacrifice to your God in the land.
Exodus|8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall
we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will
they not stone us?
Exodus|8:27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and
sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Exodus|8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice
to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away:
entreat for me.
Exodus|8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will
entreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from
his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus|8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.
Exodus|8:31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he
removed the swarms [of flies] from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his
people; there remained not one.
Exodus|8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither
would he let the people go.
Exodus|9:1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell
him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
Exodus|9:2 For if thou refuse to let [them] go, and wilt hold them
still,
Exodus|9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which [is] in
the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen,
and upon the sheep: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain.
Exodus|9:4 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the
cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all [that is] the
children's of Israel.
Exodus|9:5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD
shall do this thing in the land.
Exodus|9:6 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle
of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
Exodus|9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the
cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and
he did not let the people go.
Exodus|9:8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you
handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the
heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exodus|9:9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and
shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast,
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus|9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before
Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil
breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast.
Exodus|9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of
the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
Exodus|9:12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened
not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
Exodus|9:13 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the
Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus|9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine
heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know
that [there is] none like me in all the earth.
Exodus|9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee
and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Exodus|9:16 And in very deed for this [cause] have I raised thee up, for
to show [in] thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all
the earth.
Exodus|9:17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou
wilt not let them go?
Exodus|9:18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a
very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation
thereof even until now.
Exodus|9:19 Send therefore now, [and] gather thy cattle, and all that
thou hast in the field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found
in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon
them, and they shall die.
Exodus|9:20 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
Exodus|9:21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his
servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus|9:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand
toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man,
and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of
Egypt.
Exodus|9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the
LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the
LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus|9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very
grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it
became a nation.
Exodus|9:25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that
[was] in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of
the field, and brake every tree of the field.
Exodus|9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel
[were], was there no hail.
Exodus|9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said
unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my
people [are] wicked.
Exodus|9:28 Entreat the LORD (for [it is] enough) that there be no
[more] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall
stay no longer.
Exodus|9:29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the
city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; [and] the thunder shall
cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that
the earth [is] the LORD's.
Exodus|9:30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not
yet fear the LORD God.
Exodus|9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley
[was] in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled.
Exodus|9:32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were]
not grown up.
Exodus|9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread
abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the
rain was not poured upon the earth.
Exodus|9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the
thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and
his servants.
Exodus|9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let
the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
Exodus|10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these
my signs before him:
Exodus|10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy
son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have
done among them; that ye may know how that I [am] the LORD.
Exodus|10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble
thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus|10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow
will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Exodus|10:5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot
be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is
escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree
which groweth for you out of the field:
Exodus|10:6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers,
nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the
earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Exodus|10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this
man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their
God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Exodus|10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he
said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: [but] who [are] they that
shall go?
Exodus|10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old,
with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds
will we go; for we [must hold] a feast unto the LORD.
Exodus|10:10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I
will let you go, and your little ones: look [to it]; for evil [is] before
you.
Exodus|10:11 Not so: go now ye [that are] men, and serve the LORD; for
that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
Exodus|10:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over
the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of
Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, [even] all that the hail hath left.
Exodus|10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt,
and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all
[that] night; [and] when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Exodus|10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and
rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous [were they]; before them
there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus|10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the
land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the
fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any
green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the
land of Egypt.
Exodus|10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he
said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Exodus|10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once,
and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death
only.
Exodus|10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.
Exodus|10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took
away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one
locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Exodus|10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not
let the children of Israel go.
Exodus|10:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness
[which] may be felt.
Exodus|10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there
was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
Exodus|10:23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place
for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their
dwellings.
Exodus|10:24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the
LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones
also go with you.
Exodus|10:25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
Exodus|10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof
be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we
know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.
Exodus|10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let
them go.
Exodus|10:28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to
thyself, see my face no more; for in [that] day thou seest my face thou
shalt die.
Exodus|10:29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face
again no more.
Exodus|11:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague
[more] upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence:
when he shall let [you] go, he shall surely thrust you out hence
altogether.
Exodus|11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man
borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold.
Exodus|11:3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses [was] very great in the land of Egypt, in
the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
Exodus|11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I
go out into the midst of Egypt:
Exodus|11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from
the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the
firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind the mill; and all the
firstborn of beasts.
Exodus|11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of
Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
Exodus|11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog
move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD
doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exodus|11:8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that
follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in
a great anger.
Exodus|11:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
Exodus|11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh:
and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus|12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, saying,
Exodus|12:2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it
[shall be] the first month of the year to you.
Exodus|12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the
tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an house:
Exodus|12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and
his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the
souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the
lamb.
Exodus|12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first
year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus|12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same
month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it
in the evening.
Exodus|12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two
side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat
it.
Exodus|12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,
and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.
Exodus|12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
[with] fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exodus|12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus|12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in
haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.
Exodus|12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and
will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD.
Exodus|12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses
where ye [are]: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy [you], when I smite the land of
Egypt.
Exodus|12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall
keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a
feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus|12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first
day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth
leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be
cut off from Israel.
Exodus|12:16 And in the first day [there shall be] an holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner
of work shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that
only may be done of you.
Exodus|12:17 And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for
in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for
ever.
Exodus|12:18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the
month at even.
Exodus|12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses:
for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut
off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in
the land.
Exodus|12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations
shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Exodus|12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and
kill the passover.
Exodus|12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the
blood that [is] in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts
with the blood that [is] in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the
door of his house until the morning.
Exodus|12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the
LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in
unto your houses to smite [you].
Exodus|12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee
and to thy sons for ever.
Exodus|12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land
which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall
keep this service.
Exodus|12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say
unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Exodus|12:27 That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S
passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed
the head and worshipped.
Exodus|12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD
had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exodus|12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat
on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon;
and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exodus|12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants,
and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was]
not a house where [there was] not one dead.
Exodus|12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise
up, [and] get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Exodus|12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and
be gone; and bless me also.
Exodus|12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they
might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We [be] all dead
[men].
Exodus|12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened,
their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exodus|12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of
Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and raiment:
Exodus|12:36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they lent unto them [such things as they required]. And
they spoiled the Egyptians.
Exodus|12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside
children.
Exodus|12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks,
and herds, [even] very much cattle.
Exodus|12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were
thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for
themselves any victual.
Exodus|12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus|12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and
thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus|12:42 It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is] that night of the LORD
to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
Exodus|12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the
ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
Exodus|12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou
hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus|12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exodus|12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth
ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof.
Exodus|12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus|12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep
the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let
him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land:
for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus|12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the
stranger that sojourneth among you.
Exodus|12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exodus|12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, [that] the LORD did
bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Exodus|13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|13:2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the
womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of beast: it [is]
mine.
Exodus|13:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which
ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand the LORD brought you out from this [place]: there shall no leavened
bread be eaten.
Exodus|13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Exodus|13:5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land
of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and
the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing
with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
Exodus|13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the
seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD.
Exodus|13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall
no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen
with thee in all thy quarters.
Exodus|13:8 And thou shalt show thy son in that day, saying, [This is
done] because of that [which] the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of
Egypt.
Exodus|13:9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and
for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth:
for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
Exodus|13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from
year to year.
Exodus|13:11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the
land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall
give it thee,
Exodus|13:12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth
the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the
males [shall be] the LORD'S.
Exodus|13:13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a
lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and
all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
Exodus|13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand
the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
Exodus|13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go,
that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the
LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my
children I redeem.
Exodus|13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for
frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us
forth out of Egypt.
Exodus|13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go,
that God led them not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines,
although that [was] near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent
when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
Exodus|13:18 But God led the people about, [through] the way of the
wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out
of the land of Egypt.
Exodus|13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had
straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you;
and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Exodus|13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in
Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
Exodus|13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a
cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
light; to go by day and night:
Exodus|13:22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the
pillar of fire by night, [from] before the people.
Exodus|14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|14:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon:
before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
Exodus|14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They [are]
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Exodus|14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow
after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host;
that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.
Exodus|14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and
the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and
they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving
us?
Exodus|14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
Exodus|14:7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
Exodus|14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel
went out with an high hand.
Exodus|14:9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses [and]
chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
Exodus|14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted
up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were
sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
Exodus|14:11 And they said unto Moses, Because [there were] no graves in
Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast
thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exodus|14:12 [Is] not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt,
saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For [it had been]
better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness.
Exodus|14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still,
and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you to day: for
the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for
ever.
Exodus|14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Exodus|14:15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto
me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Exodus|14:16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over
the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry [ground]
through the midst of the sea.
Exodus|14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians,
and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Exodus|14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I
have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
Exodus|14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before
their face, and stood behind them:
Exodus|14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp
of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by
night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Exodus|14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD
caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all that night, and made
the sea dry [land], and the waters were divided.
Exodus|14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea
upon the dry [ground]: and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left.
Exodus|14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the
midst of the sea, [even] all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his
horsemen.
Exodus|14:24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD
looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the
cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
Exodus|14:25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them
heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel;
for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus|14:26 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over
the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their
chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Exodus|14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the
sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.
Exodus|14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them;
there remained not so much as one of them.
Exodus|14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry [land] in the
midst of the sea; and the waters [were] a wall unto them on their right
hand, and on their left.
Exodus|14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
Exodus|14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the
Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his
servant Moses.
Exodus|15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto
the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath
triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus|15:2 The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my
salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my
father's God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus|15:3 The LORD [is] a man of war: the LORD [is] his name.
Exodus|15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea:
his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
Exodus|15:5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a
stone.
Exodus|15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy
right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Exodus|15:7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast
overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath,
[which] consumed them as stubble.
Exodus|15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered
together, the floods stood upright as an heap, [and] the depths were
congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus|15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will
divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my
sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Exodus|15:10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they
sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus|15:11 Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is]
like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?
Exodus|15:12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed
them.
Exodus|15:13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which] thou
hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy strength unto thy holy
habitation.
Exodus|15:14 The people shall hear, [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take
hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
Exodus|15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of
Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan
shall melt away.
Exodus|15:16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of
thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O
LORD, till the people pass over, [which] thou hast purchased.
Exodus|15:17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
thine inheritance, [in] the place, O LORD, [which] thou hast made for thee
to dwell in, [in] the Sanctuary, O Lord, [which] thy hands have
established.
Exodus|15:18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
Exodus|15:19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea
upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry [land] in the midst of
the sea.
Exodus|15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a
timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and
with dances.
Exodus|15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus|15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out
into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness,
and found no water.
Exodus|15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the
waters of Marah, for they [were] bitter: therefore the name of it was
called Marah.
Exodus|15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall
we drink?
Exodus|15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree,
[which] when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there
he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
Exodus|15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of
the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt
give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of
these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I
[am] the LORD that healeth thee.
Exodus|15:27 And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water,
and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
Exodus|16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin,
which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month
after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus|16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Exodus|16:3 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.
Exodus|16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread
from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate
every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Exodus|16:5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall
prepare [that] which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily.
Exodus|16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At
even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land
of Egypt:
Exodus|16:7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD;
for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what [are] we,
that ye murmur against us?
Exodus|16:8 And Moses said, [This shall be], when the LORD shall give
you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for
that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what
[are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD.
Exodus|16:9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of
the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your
murmurings.
Exodus|16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
Exodus|16:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel:
speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye
shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your
God.
Exodus|16:13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and
covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
Exodus|16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the
face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small as the
hoar frost on the ground.
Exodus|16:15 And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to
another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said
unto them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Exodus|16:16 This [is] the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather
of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, [according
to] the number of your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in
his tents.
Exodus|16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more,
some less.
Exodus|16:18 And when they did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered
much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they
gathered every man according to his eating.
Exodus|16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Exodus|16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of
them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses
was wroth with them.
Exodus|16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to
his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Exodus|16:22 And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered
twice as much bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses.
Exodus|16:23 And he said unto them, This [is that] which the LORD hath
said, To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake
[that] which ye will bake [to day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and
that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus|16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it
did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
Exodus|16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath
unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Exodus|16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which
is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Exodus|16:27 And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some] of the
people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Exodus|16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws?
Exodus|16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath,
therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye
every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exodus|16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus|16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and
it [was] like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers
[made] with honey.
Exodus|16:32 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD
commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they
may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I
brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Exodus|16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full
of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your
generations.
Exodus|16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus|16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until
they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the
borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus|16:36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
Exodus|17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the
commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and [there was] no water
for the people to drink.
Exodus|17:2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us
water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me?
wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Exodus|17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore [is] this [that] thou hast
brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with
thirst?
Exodus|17:4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto
this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
Exodus|17:5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and
take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest
the river, take in thine hand, and go.
Exodus|17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in
Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it,
that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of
Israel.
Exodus|17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,
because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted
the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Exodus|17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
Exodus|17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out,
fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the
rod of God in mine hand.
Exodus|17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with
Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Exodus|17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that
Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Exodus|17:12 But Moses' hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and
put [it] under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his
hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his
hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exodus|17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge
of the sword.
Exodus|17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this [for] a memorial
in a book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put
out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Exodus|17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
Jehovahnissi:
Exodus|17:16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn [that] the LORD
[will have] war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Exodus|18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law,
heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, [and]
that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
Exodus|18:2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses'
wife, after he had sent her back,
Exodus|18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one [was]
Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
Exodus|18:4 And the name of the other [was] Eliezer; for the God of my
father, [said he, was] mine help, and delivered me from the sword of
Pharaoh:
Exodus|18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his
wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
Exodus|18:6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come
unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Exodus|18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did
obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of [their] welfare;
and they came into the tent.
Exodus|18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done
unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, [and] all the travail
that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the LORD delivered them.
Exodus|18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had
done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus|18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath delivered
you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who
hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus|18:11 Now I know that the LORD [is] greater than all gods: for in
the thing wherein they dealt proudly [he was] above them.
Exodus|18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat
bread with Moses' father in law before God.
Exodus|18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge
the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the
evening.
Exodus|18:14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the
people, he said, What [is] this thing that thou doest to the people? why
sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning
unto even?
Exodus|18:15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people
come unto me to inquire of God:
Exodus|18:16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge
between one and another, and I do make [them] know the statutes of God, and
his laws.
Exodus|18:17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
doest [is] not good.
Exodus|18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that
[is] with thee: for this thing [is] too heavy for thee; thou art not able
to perform it thyself alone.
Exodus|18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and
God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou
mayest bring the causes unto God:
Exodus|18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt
show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exodus|18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over
them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus|18:22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall
be, [that] every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small
matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall
bear [the burden] with thee.
Exodus|18:23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee [so],
then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to
their place in peace.
Exodus|18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and
did all that he had said.
Exodus|18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them
heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus|18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes
they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus|18:27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way
into his own land.
Exodus|19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone
forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they [into] the
wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus|19:2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the
desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped
before the mount.
Exodus|19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out
of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of Israel;
Exodus|19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare
you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Exodus|19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people:
for all the earth [is] mine:
Exodus|19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of
Israel.
Exodus|19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Exodus|19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the
LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people
unto the LORD.
Exodus|19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a
thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe
thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exodus|19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and
sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Exodus|19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the
LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
Exodus|19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about,
saying, Take heed to yourselves, [that ye] go [not] up into the mount, or
touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to
death:
Exodus|19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be
stoned, or shot through; whether [it be] beast or man, it shall not live:
when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exodus|19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Exodus|19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third
day: come not at [your] wives.
Exodus|19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that
there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and
the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was]
in the camp trembled.
Exodus|19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet
with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Exodus|19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exodus|19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Exodus|19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to the top of the mount; and Moses
went up.
Exodus|19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people,
lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
Exodus|19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
Exodus|19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to
mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and
sanctify it.
Exodus|19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou
shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the
people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon
them.
Exodus|19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
Exodus|20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Exodus|20:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus|20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus|20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the
earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
Exodus|20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for
I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate
me;
Exodus|20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
Exodus|20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Exodus|20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus|20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exodus|20:10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God:
[in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that
[is] within thy gates:
Exodus|20:11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD
blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus|20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exodus|20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
Exodus|20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exodus|20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Exodus|20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus|20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor
his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.
Exodus|20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings,
and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people
saw [it], they removed, and stood afar off.
Exodus|20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will
hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Exodus|20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come
to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Exodus|20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God [was].
Exodus|20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the
children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Exodus|20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye
make unto you gods of gold.
Exodus|20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt
sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep,
and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee,
and I will bless thee.
Exodus|20:25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not
build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast
polluted it.
Exodus|20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Exodus|21:1 Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before
them.
Exodus|21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and
in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus|21:3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he
were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exodus|21:4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him
sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he
shall go out by himself.
Exodus|21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my
wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Exodus|21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall
also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall
bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Exodus|21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she
shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus|21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to
himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange
nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Exodus|21:9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal
with her after the manner of daughters.
Exodus|21:10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and
her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus|21:11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go
out free without money.
Exodus|21:12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put
to death.
Exodus|21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into
his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
Exodus|21:14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to
slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Exodus|21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be
surely put to death.
Exodus|21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be
found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus|21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely
be put to death.
Exodus|21:18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a
stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:
Exodus|21:19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then
shall he that smote [him] be quit: only he shall pay [for] the loss of his
time, and shall cause [him] to be thoroughly healed.
Exodus|21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod,
and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Exodus|21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not
be punished: for he [is] his money.
Exodus|21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her
fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely
punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall
pay as the judges [determine].
Exodus|21:23 And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for
life,
Exodus|21:24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exodus|21:25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Exodus|21:26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of
his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exodus|21:27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his
maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Exodus|21:28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox
shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of
the ox [shall be] quit.
Exodus|21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past,
and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but
that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner
also shall be put to death.
Exodus|21:30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give
for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
Exodus|21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
Exodus|21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he
shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be
stoned.
Exodus|21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,
and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
Exodus|21:34 The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money
unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his.
Exodus|21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they
shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead [ox] also
they shall divide.
Exodus|21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time
past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox;
and the dead shall be his own.
Exodus|22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell
it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus|22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
[there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
Exodus|22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed]
for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he
shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus|22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether
it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
Exodus|22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and
shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best
of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make
restitution.
Exodus|22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks
of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed [therewith]; he
that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exodus|22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to
keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let
him pay double.
Exodus|22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house
shall be brought unto the judges, [to see] whether he have put his hand
unto his neighbour's goods.
Exodus|22:9 For all manner of trespass, [whether it be] for ox, for ass,
for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, which [another]
challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
judges; [and] whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his
neighbour.
Exodus|22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a
sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no
man seeing [it]:
Exodus|22:11 [Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that
he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it
shall accept [thereof], and he shall not make [it] good.
Exodus|22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution
unto the owner thereof.
Exodus|22:13 If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for]
witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.
Exodus|22:14 And if a man borrow [ought] of his neighbour, and it be
hurt, or die, the owner thereof [being] not with it, he shall surely make
[it] good.
Exodus|22:15 [But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make
[it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing], it came for his hire.
Exodus|22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie
with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Exodus|22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall
pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Exodus|22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Exodus|22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Exodus|22:20 He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD
only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
Exodus|22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus|22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus|22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto
me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus|22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exodus|22:25 If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by
thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon
him usury.
Exodus|22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou
shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Exodus|22:27 For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for
his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth
unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.
Exodus|22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
people.
Exodus|22:29 Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe
fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto
me.
Exodus|22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy
sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt
give it me.
Exodus|22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat
[any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the
dogs.
Exodus|23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus|23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither
shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:
Exodus|23:3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Exodus|23:4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus|23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Exodus|23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Exodus|23:7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus|23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Exodus|23:9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the
heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus|23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in
the fruits thereof:
Exodus|23:11 But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie
still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts
of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard,
[and] with thy oliveyard.
Exodus|23:12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day
thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Exodus|23:13 And in all [things] that I have said unto you be
circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it
be heard out of thy mouth.
Exodus|23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exodus|23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt
eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed
of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall
appear before me empty:)
Exodus|23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours,
which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, [which is]
in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the
field.
Exodus|23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before
the Lord GOD.
Exodus|23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with
leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the
morning.
Exodus|23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring
into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
mother's milk.
Exodus|23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the
way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Exodus|23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he
will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [is] in him.
Exodus|23:22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto
thine adversaries.
Exodus|23:23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto
the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
Exodus|23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor
do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite
break down their images.
Exodus|23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless
thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of
thee.
Exodus|23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Exodus|23:27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the
people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn
their backs unto thee.
Exodus|23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out
the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exodus|23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year;
lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against
thee.
Exodus|23:30 By little and little I will drive them out from before
thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus|23:31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the
sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive
them out before thee.
Exodus|23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus|23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin
against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto
thee.
Exodus|24:1 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship
ye afar off.
Exodus|24:2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
Exodus|24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the
LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice,
and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
Exodus|24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early
in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars,
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus|24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which
offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the
LORD.
Exodus|24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basins;
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Exodus|24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the
audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we
do, and be obedient.
Exodus|24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people,
and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with
you concerning all these words.
Exodus|24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel:
Exodus|24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his
feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body
of heaven in [his] clearness.
Exodus|24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not
his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Exodus|24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount,
and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and
commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Exodus|24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went
up into the mount of God.
Exodus|24:14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we
come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur [are] with you: if any man
have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
Exodus|24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the
mount.
Exodus|24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the
cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of
the midst of the cloud.
Exodus|24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD [was] like devouring
fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus|24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up
into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Exodus|25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an
offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall
take my offering.
Exodus|25:3 And this [is] the offering which ye shall take of them;
gold, and silver, and brass,
Exodus|25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats' [hair],
Exodus|25:5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
wood,
Exodus|25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet
incense,
Exodus|25:7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the
breastplate.
Exodus|25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among
them.
Exodus|25:9 According to all that I show thee, [after] the pattern of
the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so
shall ye make [it].
Exodus|25:10 And they shall make an ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits
and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus|25:11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and
without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round
about.
Exodus|25:12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put
[them] in the four corners thereof; and two rings [shall be] in the one
side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
Exodus|25:13 And thou shalt make staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay
them with gold.
Exodus|25:14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides
of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
Exodus|25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not
be taken from it.
Exodus|25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall
give thee.
Exodus|25:17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits
and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof.
Exodus|25:18 And thou shalt make two cherubims [of] gold, [of] beaten
work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exodus|25:19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on
the other end: [even] of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the
two ends thereof.
Exodus|25:20 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.
Exodus|25:21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and
in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exodus|25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with
thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which [are]
upon the ark of the testimony, of all [things] which I will give thee in
commandment unto the children of Israel.
Exodus|25:23 Thou shalt also make a table [of] shittim wood: two cubits
[shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit
and a half the height thereof.
Exodus|25:24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto
a crown of gold round about.
Exodus|25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth
round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round
about.
Exodus|25:26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the
rings in the four corners that [are] on the four feet thereof.
Exodus|25:27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of
the staves to bear the table.
Exodus|25:28 And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood, and
overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Exodus|25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof,
and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: [of] pure gold
shalt thou make them.
Exodus|25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before me
alway.
Exodus|25:31 And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of]
beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his
bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
Exodus|25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the
candlestick out of the other side:
Exodus|25:33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, [with] a knop and a
flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other
branch, [with] a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of
the candlestick.
Exodus|25:34 And in the candlestick [shall be] four bowls made like unto
almonds, [with] their knops and their flowers.
Exodus|25:35 And [there shall be] a knop under two branches of the same,
and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of
the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the
candlestick.
Exodus|25:36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it
[shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
Exodus|25:37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall
light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
Exodus|25:38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, [shall
be of] pure gold.
Exodus|25:39 [Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these
vessels.
Exodus|25:40 And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which
was showed thee in the mount.
Exodus|26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle [with] ten curtains
[of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims
of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Exodus|26:2 The length of one curtain [shall be] eight and twenty
cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the
curtains shall have one measure.
Exodus|26:3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another;
and [other] five curtains [shall be] coupled one to another.
Exodus|26:4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in
the uttermost edge of [another] curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus|26:5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty
loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that [is] in the coupling
of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Exodus|26:6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the
curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Exodus|26:7 And thou shalt make curtains [of] goats' [hair] to be a
covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Exodus|26:8 The length of one curtain [shall be] thirty cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains [shall be all]
of one measure.
Exodus|26:9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront
of the tabernacle.
Exodus|26:10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one
curtain [that is] outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of
the curtain which coupleth the second.
Exodus|26:11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the
taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
Exodus|26:12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,
the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the
tabernacle.
Exodus|26:13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side
of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall
hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to
cover it.
Exodus|26:14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent [of] rams'
skins dyed red, and a covering above [of] badgers' skins.
Exodus|26:15 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim
wood standing up.
Exodus|26:16 Ten cubits [shall be] the length of a board, and a cubit
and a half [shall be] the breadth of one board.
Exodus|26:17 Two tenons [shall there be] in one board, set in order one
against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus|26:18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty
boards on the south side southward.
Exodus|26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the
twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus|26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side
[there shall be] twenty boards:
Exodus|26:21 And their forty sockets [of] silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus|26:22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt
make six boards.
Exodus|26:23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the
tabernacle in the two sides.
Exodus|26:24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall
be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be
for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus|26:25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets [of]
silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board.
Exodus|26:26 And thou shalt make bars [of] shittim wood; five for the
boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus|26:27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for
the two sides westward.
Exodus|26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach
from end to end.
Exodus|26:29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
rings [of] gold [for] places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars
with gold.
Exodus|26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the
fashion thereof which was showed thee in the mount.
Exodus|26:31 And thou shalt make a veil [of] blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be
made:
Exodus|26:32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim [wood]
overlaid with gold: their hooks [shall be of] gold, upon the four sockets
of silver.
Exodus|26:33 And thou shalt hang up the veil under the taches, that thou
mayest bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the
veil shall divide unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy.
Exodus|26:34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the
testimony in the most holy [place].
Exodus|26:35 And thou shalt set the table without the veil, and the
candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the
south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
Exodus|26:36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent,
[of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with
needlework.
Exodus|26:37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars [of]
shittim [wood], and overlay them with gold, [and] their hooks [shall be of]
gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus|27:1 And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits
long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height
thereof [shall be] three cubits.
Exodus|27:2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners
thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with
brass.
Exodus|27:3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his
shovels, and his basins, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the
vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass.
Exodus|27:4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass;
and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners
thereof.
Exodus|27:5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar
beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
Exodus|27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of]
shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
Exodus|27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves
shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Exodus|27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee
in the mount, so shall they make [it].
Exodus|27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the
south side southward [there shall be] hangings for the court [of] fine
twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
Exodus|27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets
[shall be of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [shall be
of] silver.
Exodus|27:11 And likewise for the north side in length [there shall be]
hangings of an hundred [cubits] long, and his twenty pillars and their
twenty sockets [of] brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of]
silver.
Exodus|27:12 And [for] the breadth of the court on the west side [shall
be] hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
Exodus|27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward
[shall be] fifty cubits.
Exodus|27:14 The hangings of one side [of the gate shall be] fifteen
cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus|27:15 And on the other side [shall be] hangings fifteen [cubits]:
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus|27:16 And for the gate of the court [shall be] an hanging of
twenty cubits, [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
wrought with needlework: [and] their pillars [shall be] four, and their
sockets four.
Exodus|27:17 All the pillars round about the court [shall be] filleted
with silver; their hooks [shall be of] silver, and their sockets [of]
brass.
Exodus|27:18 The length of the court [shall be] an hundred cubits, and
the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits [of] fine twined
linen, and their sockets [of] brass.
Exodus|27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service
thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, [shall be
of] brass.
Exodus|27:20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they
bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn
always.
Exodus|27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the veil,
which [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from
evening to morning before the LORD: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto
their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus|28:1 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with
him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office, [even] Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar,
Aaron's sons.
Exodus|28:2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for
glory and for beauty.
Exodus|28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all [that are] wise hearted, whom
I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's
garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
Exodus|28:4 And these [are] the garments which they shall make; a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a
girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his
sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus|28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen.
Exodus|28:6 And they shall make the ephod [of] gold, [of] blue, and [of]
purple, [of] scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
Exodus|28:7 It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof joined at the
two edges thereof; and [so] it shall be joined together.
Exodus|28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which [is] upon it,
shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; [even of] gold, [of]
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus|28:9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the
names of the children of Israel:
Exodus|28:10 Six of their names on one stone, and [the other] six names
of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
Exodus|28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, [like] the
engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of
the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Exodus|28:12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the
ephod [for] stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall
bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
Exodus|28:13 And thou shalt make ouches [of] gold;
Exodus|28:14 And two chains [of] pure gold at the ends; [of] wreathen
work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
Exodus|28:15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with
cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; [of] gold,
[of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, and [of] fine twined linen,
shalt thou make it.
Exodus|28:16 Foursquare it shall be [being] doubled; a span [shall be]
the length thereof, and a span [shall be] the breadth thereof.
Exodus|28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, [even] four
rows of stones: [the first] row [shall be] a sardius, a topaz, and a
carbuncle: [this shall be] the first row.
Exodus|28:18 And the second row [shall be] an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond.
Exodus|28:19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
Exodus|28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they
shall be set in gold in their enclosings.
Exodus|28:21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings of a
signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve
tribes.
Exodus|28:22 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends
[of] wreathen work [of] pure gold.
Exodus|28:23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold,
and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus|28:24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen [chains] of gold in the
two rings [which are] on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus|28:25 And [the other] two ends of the two wreathen [chains] thou
shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put [them] on the shoulder pieces of
the ephod before it.
Exodus|28:26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put
them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which [is]
in the side of the ephod inward.
Exodus|28:27 And two [other] rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt
put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart
thereof, over against the [other] coupling thereof, above the curious
girdle of the ephod.
Exodus|28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof
unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that [it] may be above the
curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from
the ephod.
Exodus|28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in
the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy
[place], for a memorial before the LORD continually.
Exodus|28:30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim
and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in
before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of
Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Exodus|28:31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all [of] blue.
Exodus|28:32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst
thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it,
as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
Exodus|28:33 And [beneath] upon the hem of it thou shalt make
pomegranates [of] blue, and [of] purple, and [of] scarlet, round about the
hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
Exodus|28:34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
Exodus|28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall
be heard when he goeth in unto the holy [place] before the LORD, and when
he cometh out, that he die not.
Exodus|28:36 And thou shalt make a plate [of] pure gold, and grave upon
it, [like] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Exodus|28:37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon
the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
Exodus|28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear
the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow
in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that
they may be accepted before the LORD.
Exodus|28:39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou
shalt make the mitre [of] fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle [of]
needlework.
Exodus|28:40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt
make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and
for beauty.
Exodus|28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his
sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify
them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus|28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Exodus|28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they
come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near
unto the altar to minister in the holy [place]; that they bear not
iniquity, and die: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto him and his seed
after him.
Exodus|29:1 And this [is] the thing that thou shalt do unto them to
hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young
bullock, and two rams without blemish,
Exodus|29:2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with
oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: [of] wheaten flour shalt thou
make them.
Exodus|29:3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in
the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
Exodus|29:4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
Exodus|29:5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the
coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and
gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Exodus|29:6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy
crown upon the mitre.
Exodus|29:7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour [it] upon
his head, and anoint him.
Exodus|29:8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
Exodus|29:9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons,
and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a
perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exodus|29:10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their
hands upon the head of the bullock.
Exodus|29:11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, [by] the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exodus|29:12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put
[it] upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood
beside the bottom of the altar.
Exodus|29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards,
and the caul [that is] above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat
that [is] upon them, and burn [them] upon the altar.
Exodus|29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung,
shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it [is] a sin offering.
Exodus|29:15 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exodus|29:16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood,
and sprinkle [it] round about upon the altar.
Exodus|29:17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards
of him, and his legs, and put [them] unto his pieces, and unto his head.
Exodus|29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a
burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
Exodus|29:19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons
shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
Exodus|29:20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and
put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the
right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the
great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round
about.
Exodus|29:21 And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar,
and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him:
and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons'
garments with him.
Exodus|29:22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and
the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the
two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, and the right shoulder; for
it [is] a ram of consecration:
Exodus|29:23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that [is] before the LORD:
Exodus|29:24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the
hands of his sons; and shalt wave them [for] a wave offering before the
LORD.
Exodus|29:25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn [them]
upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it
[is] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus|29:26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's
consecration, and wave it [for] a wave offering before the LORD: and it
shall be thy part.
Exodus|29:27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering,
and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved
up, of the ram of the consecration, [even] of [that] which [is] for Aaron,
and of [that] which is for his sons:
Exodus|29:28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever
from the children of Israel: for it [is] an heave offering: and it shall be
an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their
peace offerings, [even] their heave offering unto the LORD.
Exodus|29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after
him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
Exodus|29:30 [And] that son that is priest in his stead shall put them
on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to
minister in the holy [place].
Exodus|29:31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe
his flesh in the holy place.
Exodus|29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and
the bread that [is] in the basket, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Exodus|29:33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was
made, to consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat
[thereof], because they [are] holy.
Exodus|29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the
bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with
fire: it shall not be eaten, because it [is] holy.
Exodus|29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons,
according to all [things] which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt
thou consecrate them.
Exodus|29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock [for] a sin
offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast
made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
Exodus|29:37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and
sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the
altar shall be holy.
Exodus|29:38 Now this [is that] which thou shalt offer upon the altar;
two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Exodus|29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other
lamb thou shalt offer at even:
Exodus|29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with
the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of
wine [for] a drink offering.
Exodus|29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do
thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the
drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto
the LORD.
Exodus|29:42 [This shall be] a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the
LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Exodus|29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the
tabernacle] shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus|29:44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and
the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me
in the priest's office.
Exodus|29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be
their God.
Exodus|29:46 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD their God, that
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I
[am] the LORD their God.
Exodus|30:1 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: [of]
shittim wood shalt thou make it.
Exodus|30:2 A cubit [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit the
breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits [shall be] the
height thereof: the horns thereof [shall be] of the same.
Exodus|30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof,
and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt
make unto it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus|30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown
of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make
[it]; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
Exodus|30:5 And thou shalt make the staves [of] shittim wood, and
overlay them with gold.
Exodus|30:6 And thou shalt put it before the veil that [is] by the ark
of the testimony, before the mercy seat that [is] over the testimony, where
I will meet with thee.
Exodus|30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning:
when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
Exodus|30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn
incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your
generations.
Exodus|30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt
sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
Exodus|30:10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once
in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the
year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it [is]
most holy unto the LORD.
Exodus|30:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|30:12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after
their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the
LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when
[thou] numberest them.
Exodus|30:13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them
that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a
shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the
LORD.
Exodus|30:14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from
twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
Exodus|30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give
less than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering unto the LORD, to
make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus|30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of
Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before
the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus|30:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|30:18 Thou shalt also make a laver [of] brass, and his foot [also
of] brass, to wash [withal]: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
Exodus|30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their
feet thereat:
Exodus|30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they
shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the
altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
Exodus|30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they
die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, [even] to him and to
his seed throughout their generations.
Exodus|30:22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|30:23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh
five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two
hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty
[shekels],
Exodus|30:24 And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of
the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
Exodus|30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment
compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing
oil.
Exodus|30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
Exodus|30:27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and
his vessels, and the altar of incense,
Exodus|30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and
the laver and his foot.
Exodus|30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy:
whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Exodus|30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate
them, that [they] may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus|30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Exodus|30:32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye
make [any other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is] holy, [and]
it shall be holy unto you.
Exodus|30:33 Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth
[any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus|30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,
stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; [these] sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like [weight]:
Exodus|30:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the
art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure [and] holy:
Exodus|30:36 And thou shalt beat [some] of it very small, and put of it
before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will
meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
Exodus|30:37 And [as for] the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall
not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be
unto thee holy for the LORD.
Exodus|30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto,
shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus|31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|31:2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son
of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
Exodus|31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and
in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
Exodus|31:4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
in brass,
Exodus|31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of
timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exodus|31:6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise
hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded
thee;
Exodus|31:7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the
testimony, and the mercy seat that [is] thereupon, and all the furniture of
the tabernacle,
Exodus|31:8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick
with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
Exodus|31:9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and
the laver and his foot,
Exodus|31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron
the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office,
Exodus|31:11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy
[place]: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Exodus|31:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily
my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout
your generations; that [ye] may know that I [am] the LORD that doth
sanctify you.
Exodus|31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto
you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever
doeth [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus|31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh [is] the
sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth [any] work in the
sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus|31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to
observe the sabbath throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual
covenant.
Exodus|31:17 It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for
ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh
day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus|31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of
communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of
stone, written with the finger of God.
Exodus|32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out
of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this
Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what
is become of him.
Exodus|32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings,
which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,
and bring [them] unto me.
Exodus|32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which
[were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.
Exodus|32:4 And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with
a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These
[be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus|32:5 And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and
Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD.
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
to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus|32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy
people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
[themselves]:
Exodus|32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it,
and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel,
which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus|32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:
Exodus|32:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot
against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great
nation.
Exodus|32:11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why
doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth
out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exodus|32:12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief
did he bring them out, 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.
Exodus|32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom
thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your
seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I
give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever.
Exodus|32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do
unto his people.
Exodus|32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two
tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on
both their sides; on the one side and on the other [were] they written.
Exodus|32:16 And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing
[was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus|32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they
shouted, he said unto Moses, [There is] a noise of war in the camp.
Exodus|32:18 And he said, [It is] not the voice of [them that] shout for
mastery, neither [is it] the voice of [them that] cry for being overcome:
[but] the noise of [them that] sing do I hear.
Exodus|32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,
that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he
cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Exodus|32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in
the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strowed [it] upon the water, and
made the children of Israel drink [of it].
Exodus|32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee,
that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Exodus|32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou
knowest the people, that they [are set] on mischief.
Exodus|32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before
us: for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exodus|32:24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them
break [it] off. So they gave [it] me: then I cast it into the fire, and
there came out this calf.
Exodus|32:25 And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked; (for Aaron
had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:)
Exodus|32:26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who
[is] on the LORD'S side? [let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi
gathered themselves together unto him.
Exodus|32:27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Put every man his sword by his side, [and] go in and out from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his
companion, and every man his neighbour.
Exodus|32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of
Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
Exodus|32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the
LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow
upon you a blessing this day.
Exodus|32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the
people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD;
peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
Exodus|32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people
have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Exodus|32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot
me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Exodus|32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against
me, him will I blot out of my book.
Exodus|32:34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto [the place] of which
I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee:
nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
Exodus|32:35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the
calf, which Aaron made.
Exodus|33:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, [and] go up hence,
thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt,
unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying,
Unto thy seed will I give it:
Exodus|33:2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out
the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite:
Exodus|33:3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go
up in the midst of thee; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people: lest I
consume thee in the way.
Exodus|33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned:
and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus|33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
Israel, Ye [are] a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of
thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments
from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus|33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments by the mount Horeb.
Exodus|33:7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the
camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the
congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one which sought the LORD
went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the
camp.
Exodus|33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the
tabernacle, [that] all the people rose up, and stood every man [at] his
tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
Exodus|33:9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle,
the cloudy pillar descended, and stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and
[the LORD] talked with Moses.
Exodus|33:10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the
tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man [in]
his tent door.
Exodus|33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man
speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his
servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the
tabernacle.
Exodus|33:12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me,
Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send
with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found
grace in my sight.
Exodus|33:13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy
sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in
thy sight: and consider that this nation [is] thy people.
Exodus|33:14 And he said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I will
give thee rest.
Exodus|33:15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with me],
carry us not up hence.
Exodus|33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people
have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou goest with us? so
shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are]
upon the face of the earth.
Exodus|33:17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also
that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know
thee by name.
Exodus|33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
Exodus|33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee,
and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious
to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Exodus|33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no
man see me, and live.
Exodus|33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by me, and
thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Exodus|33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that
I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand
while I pass by:
Exodus|33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Exodus|34:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone
like unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that
were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Exodus|34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
Exodus|34:3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be
seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before
that mount.
Exodus|34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and
Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the
LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
Exodus|34:5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him
there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
Exodus|34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD,
The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in
goodness and truth,
Exodus|34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty];
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the
children's children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation].
Exodus|34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth,
and worshipped.
Exodus|34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord,
let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it [is] a stiffnecked people;
and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus|34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy
people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor
in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work
of the LORD: for it [is] a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Exodus|34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I
drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus|34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the
midst of thee:
Exodus|34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and
cut down their groves:
Exodus|34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose
name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:
Exodus|34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods,
and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exodus|34:16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their
daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring
after their gods.
Exodus|34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exodus|34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days
thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the
month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus|34:19 All that openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling
among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male].
Exodus|34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb:
and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the
firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me
empty.
Exodus|34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt
rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Exodus|34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the
firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's
end.
Exodus|34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before
the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus|34:24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge
thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up
to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Exodus|34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the
morning.
Exodus|34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring
unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
mother's milk.
Exodus|34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with
Israel.
Exodus|34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights;
he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the
words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exodus|34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the
mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked
with him.
Exodus|34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Exodus|34:31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of
the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
Exodus|34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he
gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount
Sinai.
Exodus|34:33 And [till] Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil
on his face.
Exodus|34:34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him,
he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto
the children of Israel [that] which he was commanded.
Exodus|34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the
skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again,
until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus|35:1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
Israel together, and said unto them, These [are] the words which the LORD
hath commanded, that [ye] should do them.
Exodus|35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there
shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth
work therein shall be put to death.
Exodus|35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the
sabbath day.
Exodus|35:4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
Exodus|35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever
[is] of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold,
and silver, and brass,
Exodus|35:6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats' [hair],
Exodus|35:7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
wood,
Exodus|35:8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for
the sweet incense,
Exodus|35:9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for
the breastplate.
Exodus|35:10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all
that the LORD hath commanded;
Exodus|35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and
his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
Exodus|35:12 The ark, and the staves thereof, [with] the mercy seat, and
the veil of the covering,
Exodus|35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the
showbread,
Exodus|35:14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and
his lamps, with the oil for the light,
Exodus|35:15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing
oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in
of the tabernacle,
Exodus|35:16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brazen grate, his
staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Exodus|35:17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets,
and the hanging for the door of the court,
Exodus|35:18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and
their cords,
Exodus|35:19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy [place],
the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to
minister in the priest's office.
Exodus|35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed
from the presence of Moses.
Exodus|35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and
every one whom his spirit made willing, [and] they brought the LORD'S
offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his
service, and for the holy garments.
Exodus|35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing
hearted, [and] brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all
jewels of gold: and every man that offered [offered] an offering of gold
unto the LORD.
Exodus|35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], and red skins of rams, and
badgers' skins, brought [them].
Exodus|35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass
brought the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim
wood for any work of the service, brought [it].
Exodus|35:25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with
their hands, and brought that which they had spun, [both] of blue, and of
purple, [and] of scarlet, and of fine linen.
Exodus|35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom
spun goats' [hair].
Exodus|35:27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set,
for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Exodus|35:28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing
oil, and for the sweet incense.
Exodus|35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the
LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all
manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of
Moses.
Exodus|35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD
hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah;
Exodus|35:31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom,
in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
Exodus|35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass,
Exodus|35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving
of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Exodus|35:34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, [both] he,
and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Exodus|35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all
manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the
embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of
the weaver, [even] of them that do any work, and of those that devise
cunning work.
Exodus|36:1 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted
man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all
manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the
LORD had commanded.
Exodus|36:2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise
hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, [even] every one whose
heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
Exodus|36:3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the
children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the
sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And they brought yet unto him free
offerings every morning.
Exodus|36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the
sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
Exodus|36:5 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much
more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to
make.
Exodus|36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be
proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any
more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained
from bringing.
Exodus|36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to
make it, and too much.
Exodus|36:8 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work
of the tabernacle made ten curtains [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and
purple, and scarlet: [with] cherubims of cunning work made he them.
Exodus|36:9 The length of one curtain [was] twenty and eight cubits, and
the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains [were] all of one
size.
Exodus|36:10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and [the
other] five curtains he coupled one unto another.
Exodus|36:11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from
the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of
[another] curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus|36:12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he
in the edge of the curtain which [was] in the coupling of the second: the
loops held one [curtain] to another.
Exodus|36:13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains
one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
Exodus|36:14 And he made curtains [of] goats' [hair] for the tent over
the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
Exodus|36:15 The length of one curtain [was] thirty cubits, and four
cubits [was] the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains [were] of one
size.
Exodus|36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves.
Exodus|36:17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the
curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the
curtain which coupleth the second.
Exodus|36:18 And he made fifty taches [of] brass to couple the tent
together, that it might be one.
Exodus|36:19 And he made a covering for the tent [of] rams' skins dyed
red, and a covering [of] badgers' skins above [that].
Exodus|36:20 And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood,
standing up.
Exodus|36:21 The length of a board [was] ten cubits, and the breadth of
a board one cubit and a half.
Exodus|36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another:
thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
Exodus|36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for
the south side southward:
Exodus|36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets
under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus|36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, [which is] toward
the north corner, he made twenty boards,
Exodus|36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus|36:27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six
boards.
Exodus|36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in
the two sides.
Exodus|36:29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the
head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
Exodus|36:30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets [were]
sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
Exodus|36:31 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of
the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus|36:32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides
westward.
Exodus|36:33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from
the one end to the other.
Exodus|36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings
[of] gold [to be] places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exodus|36:35 And he made a veil [of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen: [with] cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Exodus|36:36 And he made thereunto four pillars [of] shittim [wood], and
overlaid them with gold: their hooks [were of] gold; and he cast for them
four sockets of silver.
Exodus|36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door [of] blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exodus|36:38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he
overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five
sockets [were of] brass.
Exodus|37:1 And Bezaleel made the ark [of] shittim wood: two cubits and
a half [was] the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it,
and a cubit and a half the height of it:
Exodus|37:2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and
made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus|37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the
four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings
upon the other side of it.
Exodus|37:4 And he made staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with
gold.
Exodus|37:5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the
ark, to bear the ark.
Exodus|37:6 And he made the mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a
half [was] the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth
thereof.
Exodus|37:7 And he made two cherubims [of] gold, beaten out of one piece
made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
Exodus|37:8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on
the [other] end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims
on the two ends thereof.
Exodus|37:9 And the cherubims spread out [their] wings on high, [and]
covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to
another; [even] to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
Exodus|37:10 And he made the table [of] shittim wood: two cubits [was]
the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half
the height thereof:
Exodus|37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a
crown of gold round about.
Exodus|37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round
about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
Exodus|37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings
upon the four corners that [were] in the four feet thereof.
Exodus|37:14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the
staves to bear the table.
Exodus|37:15 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them
with gold, to bear the table.
Exodus|37:16 And he made the vessels which [were] upon the table, his
dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, [of]
pure gold.
Exodus|37:17 And he made the candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten
work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his
knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
Exodus|37:18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches
of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:
Exodus|37:19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one
branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another
branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of
the candlestick.
Exodus|37:20 And in the candlestick [were] four bowls made like almonds,
his knops, and his flowers:
Exodus|37:21 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under
two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches going out of it.
Exodus|37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it
[was] one beaten work [of] pure gold.
Exodus|37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his
snuffdishes, [of] pure gold.
Exodus|37:24 [Of] a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels
thereof.
Exodus|37:25 And he made the incense altar [of] shittim wood: the length
of it [was] a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; [it was] foursquare;
and two cubits [was] the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
Exodus|37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, [both] the top of it,
and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto
it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus|37:27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown
thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places
for the staves to bear it withal.
Exodus|37:28 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them
with gold.
Exodus|37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of
sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
Exodus|38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering [of] shittim wood:
five cubits [was] the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof;
[it was] foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
Exodus|38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the
horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
Exodus|38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the
shovels, and the basins, [and] the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the
vessels thereof made he [of] brass.
Exodus|38:4 And he made for the altar a brazen grate of network under
the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
Exodus|38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of
brass, [to be] places for the staves.
Exodus|38:6 And he made the staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them
with brass.
Exodus|38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
Exodus|38:8 And he made the laver [of] brass, and the foot of it [of]
brass, of the lookingglasses of [the women] assembling, which assembled
[at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exodus|38:9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the
hangings of the court [were of] fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
Exodus|38:10 Their pillars [were] twenty, and their brazen sockets
twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets [were of] silver.
Exodus|38:11 And for the north side [the hangings were] an hundred
cubits, their pillars [were] twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the
hooks of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver.
Exodus|38:12 And for the west side [were] hangings of fifty cubits,
their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets [of] silver.
Exodus|38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus|38:14 The hangings of the one side [of the gate were] fifteen
cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus|38:15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and
that hand, [were] hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three.
Exodus|38:16 All the hangings of the court round about [were] of fine
twined linen.
Exodus|38:17 And the sockets for the pillars [were of] brass; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets [of] silver; and the overlaying of their
chapiters [of] silver; and all the pillars of the court [were] filleted
with silver.
Exodus|38:18 And the hanging for the gate of the court [was] needlework,
[of] blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty
cubits [was] the length, and the height in the breadth [was] five cubits,
answerable to the hangings of the court.
Exodus|38:19 And their pillars [were] four, and their sockets [of] brass
four; their hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and
their fillets [of] silver.
Exodus|38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round
about, [were of] brass.
Exodus|38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle
of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses,
[for] the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the
priest.
Exodus|38:22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|38:23 And with him [was] Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and
in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
Exodus|38:24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work
of the holy [place], even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine
talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary.
Exodus|38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the
congregation [was] an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and
threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exodus|38:26 A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from
twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand
and five hundred and fifty [men].
Exodus|38:27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets
of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; an hundred sockets of the
hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
Exodus|38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels
he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted
them.
Exodus|38:29 And the brass of the offering [was] seventy talents, and
two thousand and four hundred shekels.
Exodus|38:30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate
for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
Exodus|38:31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets
of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of
the court round about.
Exodus|39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths
of service, to do service in the holy [place], and made the holy garments
for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:2 And he made the ephod [of] gold, blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus|39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut [it
into] wires, to work [it] in the blue, and in the purple, and in the
scarlet, and in the fine linen, [with] cunning work.
Exodus|39:4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple [it] together: by
the two edges was it coupled together.
Exodus|39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that [was] upon it,
[was] of the same, according to the work thereof; [of] gold, blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:6 And they wrought onyx stones enclosed in ouches of gold,
graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
Exodus|39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, [that they
should be] stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:8 And he made the breastplate [of] cunning work, like the work
of the ephod; [of] gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen.
Exodus|39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span
[was] the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, [being] doubled.
Exodus|39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones: [the first] row
[was] a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this [was] the first row.
Exodus|39:11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
Exodus|39:12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
Exodus|39:13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: [they
were] enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
Exodus|39:14 And the stones [were] according to the names of the
children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, [like] the engravings
of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus|39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, [of]
wreathen work [of] pure gold.
Exodus|39:16 And they made two ouches [of] gold, and two gold rings; and
put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus|39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
rings on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus|39:18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened
in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before
it.
Exodus|39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put [them] on the two
ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which [was] on the side of
the ephod inward.
Exodus|39:20 And they made two [other] golden rings, and put them on the
two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against
the [other] coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
Exodus|39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the
rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious
girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the
ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod [of] woven work, all [of]
blue.
Exodus|39:23 And [there was] an hole in the midst of the robe, as the
hole of an habergeon, [with] a band round about the hole, that it should
not rend.
Exodus|39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates [of]
blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen].
Exodus|39:25 And they made bells [of] pure gold, and put the bells
between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the
pomegranates;
Exodus|39:26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round
about the hem of the robe to minister [in]; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:27 And they made coats [of] fine linen [of] woven work for
Aaron, and for his sons,
Exodus|39:28 And a mitre [of] fine linen, and goodly bonnets [of] fine
linen, and linen breeches [of] fine twined linen,
Exodus|39:29 And a girdle [of] fine twined linen, and blue, and purple,
and scarlet, [of] needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown [of] pure gold,
and wrote upon it a writing, [like to] the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS
TO THE LORD.
Exodus|39:31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten [it] on
high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|39:32 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that
the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Exodus|39:33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and
all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and
his sockets,
Exodus|39:34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering
of badgers' skins, and the veil of the covering,
Exodus|39:35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the
mercy seat,
Exodus|39:36 The table, [and] all the vessels thereof, and the
showbread,
Exodus|39:37 The pure candlestick, [with] the lamps thereof, [even with]
the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for
light,
Exodus|39:38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
Exodus|39:39 The brazen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and
all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Exodus|39:40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets,
and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the
vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
Exodus|39:41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy [place],
and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to
minister in the priest's office.
Exodus|39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel made all the work.
Exodus|39:43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had
done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses
blessed them.
Exodus|40:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus|40:2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Exodus|40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and
cover the ark with the veil.
Exodus|40:4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the
things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the
candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
Exodus|40:5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before
the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the
tabernacle.
Exodus|40:6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before
the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Exodus|40:7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the
congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
Exodus|40:8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the
hanging at the court gate.
Exodus|40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the
tabernacle, and all that [is] therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the
vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
Exodus|40:10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and
all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most
holy.
Exodus|40:11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify
it.
Exodus|40:12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
Exodus|40:13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint
him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus|40:14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
Exodus|40:15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their
father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their
anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their
generations.
Exodus|40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded
him, so did he.
Exodus|40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year,
on the first [day] of the month, [that] the tabernacle was reared up.
Exodus|40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his
sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and
reared up his pillars.
Exodus|40:19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put
the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the
staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
Exodus|40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the
veil of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Exodus|40:22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon
the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil.
Exodus|40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as
the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus|40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation,
over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exodus|40:25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Exodus|40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation
before the veil:
Exodus|40:27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Exodus|40:28 And he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle.
Exodus|40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt
offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation
and the altar, and put water there, to wash [withal].
Exodus|40:31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and
their feet thereat:
Exodus|40:32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when
they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus|40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and
the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the
work.
Exodus|40:34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the
glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Exodus|40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD
filled the tabernacle.
Exodus|40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle,
the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Exodus|40:37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not
till the day that it was taken up.
Exodus|40:38 For the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day,
and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.
Leviticus|1:1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of
the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Leviticus|1:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If
any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your
offering of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock.
Leviticus|1:3 If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let
him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary
will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
Leviticus|1:4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt
offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Leviticus|1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round
about upon the altar that [is by] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Leviticus|1:6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his
pieces.
Leviticus|1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the
altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
Leviticus|1:8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the
head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that [is] on the fire which [is]
upon the altar:
Leviticus|1:9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and
the priest shall burn all on the altar, [to be] a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus|1:10 And if his offering [be] of the flocks, [namely], of the
sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male
without blemish.
Leviticus|1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward
before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood
round about upon the altar.
Leviticus|1:12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and
his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that [is] on
the fire which [is] upon the altar:
Leviticus|1:13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water:
and the priest shall bring [it] all, and burn [it] upon the altar: it [is]
a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the
LORD.
Leviticus|1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD
[be] of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young
pigeons.
Leviticus|1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring
off his head, and burn [it] on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be
wrung out at the side of the altar:
Leviticus|1:16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and
cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
Leviticus|1:17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, [but]
shall not divide [it] asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar,
upon the wood that [is] upon the fire: it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus|2:1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his
offering shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put
frankincense thereon:
Leviticus|2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he
shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil
thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the
memorial of it upon the altar, [to be] an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savour unto the LORD:
Leviticus|2:3 And the remnant of the meat offering [shall be] Aaron's
and his sons': [it is] a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire.
Leviticus|2:4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in
the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or
unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus|2:5 And if thy oblation [be] a meat offering [baken] in a pan,
it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
Leviticus|2:6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it
[is] a meat offering.
Leviticus|2:7 And if thy oblation [be] a meat offering [baken] in the
fryingpan, it shall be made [of] fine flour with oil.
Leviticus|2:8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of
these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he
shall bring it unto the altar.
Leviticus|2:9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a
memorial thereof, and shall burn [it] upon the altar: [it is] an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus|2:10 And that which is left of the meat offering [shall be]
Aaron's and his sons': [it is] a thing most holy of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire.
Leviticus|2:11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD,
shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in
any offering of the LORD made by fire.
Leviticus|2:12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer
them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet
savour.
Leviticus|2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season
with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to
be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt
offer salt.
Leviticus|2:14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto
the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green
ears of corn dried by the fire, [even] corn beaten out of full ears.
Leviticus|2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense
thereon: it [is] a meat offering.
Leviticus|2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, [part] of
the beaten corn thereof, and [part] of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: [it is] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus|3:1 And if his oblation [be] a sacrifice of peace offering, if
he offer [it] of the herd; whether [it be] a male or female, he shall offer
it without blemish before the LORD.
Leviticus|3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering,
and kill it [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round
about.
Leviticus|3:3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering
an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards,
and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
Leviticus|3:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which
[is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.
Leviticus|3:5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt
sacrifice, which [is] upon the wood that [is] on the fire: [it is] an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus|3:6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto
the LORD [be] of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without
blemish.
Leviticus|3:7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer
it before the LORD.
Leviticus|3:8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering,
and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons
shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.
Leviticus|3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering
an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, [and] the whole
rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth
the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
Leviticus|3:10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them,
which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away.
Leviticus|3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: [it is] the
food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus|3:12 And if his offering [be] a goat, then he shall offer it
before the LORD.
Leviticus|3:13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill
it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall
sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Leviticus|3:14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, [even] an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and
all the fat that [is] upon the inwards,
Leviticus|3:15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them,
which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away.
Leviticus|3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: [it is]
the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat [is]
the LORD'S.
Leviticus|3:17 [It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus|4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall
sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD
[concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of
them:
Leviticus|4:3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin
of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a
young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
Leviticus|4:4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon
the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
Leviticus|4:5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the
bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus|4:6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and
sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the veil of the
sanctuary.
Leviticus|4:7 And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the
horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the
tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock
at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus|4:8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock
for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat
that [is] upon the inwards,
Leviticus|4:9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them,
which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away,
Leviticus|4:10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of
peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt
offering.
Leviticus|4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his
head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
Leviticus|4:12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the
camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on
the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
Leviticus|4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through
ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they
have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD
[concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty;
Leviticus|4:14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is
known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and
bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus|4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands
upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be
killed before the LORD.
Leviticus|4:16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the
bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus|4:17 And the priest shall dip his finger [in some] of the
blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD, [even] before the
veil.
Leviticus|4:18 And he shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of
the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar
of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Leviticus|4:19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn [it]
upon the altar.
Leviticus|4:20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the
bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall
make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
Leviticus|4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp,
and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it [is] a sin offering for the
congregation.
Leviticus|4:22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done [somewhat] through
ignorance [against] any of the commandments of the LORD his God [concerning
things] which should not be done, and is guilty;
Leviticus|4:23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his
knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without
blemish:
Leviticus|4:24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and
kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it
[is] a sin offering.
Leviticus|4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt
offering.
Leviticus|4:26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat
of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement
for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|4:27 And if any one of the common people sin through
ignorance, while he doeth [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the
LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
Leviticus|4:28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his
knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female
without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
Leviticus|4:29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin
offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
Leviticus|4:30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his
finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and
shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
Leviticus|4:31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is
taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall
burn [it] upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|4:32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring
it a female without blemish.
Leviticus|4:33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin
offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the
burnt offering.
Leviticus|4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin
offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the
altar:
Leviticus|4:35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of
the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the
priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by
fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that
he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and
[is] a witness, whether he hath seen or known [of it]; if he do not utter
[it], then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus|5:2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether [it be] a
carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase
of unclean creeping things, and [if] it be hidden from him; he also shall
be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus|5:3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever
uncleanness [it be] that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from
him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty.
Leviticus|5:4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with [his] lips to do
evil, or to do good, whatsoever [it be] that a man shall pronounce with an
oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be
guilty in one of these.
Leviticus|5:5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these
[things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]:
Leviticus|5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for
his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of
the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for
him concerning his sin.
Leviticus|5:7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring
for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering.
Leviticus|5:8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer
[that] which [is] for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from
his neck, but shall not divide [it] asunder:
Leviticus|5:9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering
upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at
the bottom of the altar: it [is] a sin offering.
Leviticus|5:10 And he shall offer the second [for] a burnt offering,
according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for
his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|5:11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth
part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon
it, neither shall he put [any] frankincense thereon: for it [is] a sin
offering.
Leviticus|5:12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest
shall take his handful of it, [even] a memorial thereof, and burn [it] on
the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a
sin offering.
Leviticus|5:13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as
touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be
forgiven him: and [the remnant] shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.
Leviticus|5:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance,
in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto
the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass
offering:
Leviticus|5:16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done
in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto
the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of
the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|5:17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which
are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist
[it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus|5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the
flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein
he erred and wist [it] not, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|5:19 It [is] a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed
against the LORD.
Leviticus|6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|6:2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and
lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in
fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his
neighbour;
Leviticus|6:3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning
it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning
therein:
Leviticus|6:4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty,
that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which
he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the
lost thing which he found,
Leviticus|6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall
even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, [and] give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his
trespass offering.
Leviticus|6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a
ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass
offering, unto the priest:
Leviticus|6:7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the
LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done
in trespassing therein.
Leviticus|6:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This [is] the law of
the burnt offering: It [is] the burnt offering, because of the burning upon
the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be
burning in it.
Leviticus|6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the
fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put
them beside the altar.
Leviticus|6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other
garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
Leviticus|6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it
shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning,
and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the
fat of the peace offerings.
Leviticus|6:13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall
never go out.
Leviticus|6:14 And this [is] the law of the meat offering: the sons of
Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
Leviticus|6:15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the
meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which [is]
upon the meat offering, and shall burn [it] upon the altar [for] a sweet
savour, [even] the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
Leviticus|6:16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat:
with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of
the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
Leviticus|6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it [unto
them for] their portion of my offerings made by fire; it [is] most holy, as
[is] the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
Leviticus|6:18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of
it. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations concerning the
offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be
holy.
Leviticus|6:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|6:20 This [is] the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which
they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth
part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in
the morning, and half thereof at night.
Leviticus|6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; [and when it is]
baken, thou shalt bring it in: [and] the baken pieces of the meat offering
shalt thou offer [for] a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus|6:22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead
shall offer it: [it is] a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be
wholly burnt.
Leviticus|6:23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly
burnt: it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus|6:24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|6:25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, 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.
Leviticus|6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the
holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Leviticus|6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy:
and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou
shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
Leviticus|6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be
broken: and if it be sodden in a brazen pot, it shall be both scoured, and
rinsed in water.
Leviticus|6:29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it
[is] most holy.
Leviticus|6:30 And no sin offering, whereof [any] of the blood is
brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile [withal] in
the holy [place], shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus|7:1 Likewise this [is] the law of the trespass offering: it
[is] most holy.
Leviticus|7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they
kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round
about upon the altar.
Leviticus|7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump,
and the fat that covereth the inwards,
Leviticus|7:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which
[is] by the flanks, and the caul [that is] above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take away:
Leviticus|7:5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar [for] an
offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a trespass offering.
Leviticus|7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall
be eaten in the holy place: it [is] most holy.
Leviticus|7:7 As the sin offering [is], so [is] the trespass offering:
[there is] one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith
shall have [it].
Leviticus|7:8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering,
[even] the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering
which he hath offered.
Leviticus|7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and
all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's
that offereth it.
Leviticus|7:10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall
all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another.
Leviticus|7:11 And this [is] the law of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
Leviticus|7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer
with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine
flour, fried.
Leviticus|7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering
leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
Leviticus|7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation
[for] an heave offering unto the LORD, [and] it shall be the priest's that
sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
Leviticus|7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not
leave any of it until the morning.
Leviticus|7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a vow, or a
voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his
sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
Leviticus|7:17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the
third day shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus|7:18 And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted,
neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an
abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus|7:19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean [thing] shall not
be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be
clean shall eat thereof.
Leviticus|7:20 But the soul that eateth [of] the flesh of the sacrifice
of peace offerings, that [pertain] unto the LORD, having his uncleanness
upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus|7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean [thing,
as] the uncleanness of man, or [any] unclean beast, or any abominable
unclean [thing], and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which [pertain] unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people.
Leviticus|7:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat
no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Leviticus|7:24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the
fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye
shall in no wise eat of it.
Leviticus|7:25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth
[it] shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus|7:26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be]
of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus|7:27 Whatsoever soul [it be] that eateth any manner of blood,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus|7:28 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that
offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his
oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
Leviticus|7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made
by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be
waved [for] a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus|7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the
breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
Leviticus|7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest
[for] an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Leviticus|7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of
the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for [his]
part.
Leviticus|7:34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken
of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings,
and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute
for ever from among the children of Israel.
Leviticus|7:35 This [is the portion] of the anointing of Aaron, and of
the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire,
in the day [when] he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the
priest's office;
Leviticus|7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children
of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, [by] a statute for ever
throughout their generations.
Leviticus|7:37 This [is] the law of the burnt offering, of the meat
offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the
consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
Leviticus|7:38 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day
that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the
LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus|8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and
the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a
basket of unleavened bread;
Leviticus|8:3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus|8:4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly
was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus|8:5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This [is] the thing
which the LORD commanded to be done.
Leviticus|8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with
water.
Leviticus|8:7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the
girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he
girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound [it] unto him
therewith.
Leviticus|8:8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
Leviticus|8:9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre,
[even] upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus|8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the
tabernacle and all that [was] therein, and sanctified them.
Leviticus|8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and
anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to
sanctify them.
Leviticus|8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
anointed him, to sanctify him.
Leviticus|8:13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them,
and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Leviticus|8:14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the
sin offering.
Leviticus|8:15 And he slew [it]; and Moses took the blood, and put [it]
upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the
altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it,
to make reconciliation upon it.
Leviticus|8:16 And he took all the fat that [was] upon the inwards, and
the caul [above] the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses
burned [it] upon the altar.
Leviticus|8:17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung,
he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus|8:18 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron
and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Leviticus|8:19 And he killed [it]; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon
the altar round about.
Leviticus|8:20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head,
and the pieces, and the fat.
Leviticus|8:21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and
Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it [was] a burnt sacrifice for a
sweet savour, [and] an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Leviticus|8:22 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration:
and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Leviticus|8:23 And he slew [it]; and Moses took of the blood of it, and
put [it] upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right
hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus|8:24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood
upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands,
and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about.
Leviticus|8:25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that
[was] upon the inwards, and the caul [above] the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
Leviticus|8:26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that [was]
before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread,
and one wafer, and put [them] on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
Leviticus|8:27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons'
hands, and waved them [for] a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus|8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt
[them] on the altar upon the burnt offering: they [were] consecrations for
a sweet savour: it [is] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus|8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it [for] a wave
offering before the LORD: [for] of the ram of consecration it was Moses'
part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus|8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood
which [was] upon the altar, and sprinkled [it] upon Aaron, [and] upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and
sanctified Aaron, [and] his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments
with him.
Leviticus|8:31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh
[at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with
the bread that [is] in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying,
Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Leviticus|8:32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread
shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus|8:33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation [in] seven days, until the days of your consecration be at
an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
Leviticus|8:34 As he hath done this day, [so] the LORD hath commanded to
do, to make an atonement for you.
Leviticus|8:35 Therefore shall ye abide [at] the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the
LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus|8:36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus|9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, [that] Moses called
Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
Leviticus|9:2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer [them]
before the LORD.
Leviticus|9:3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying,
Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb,
[both] of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
Leviticus|9:4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice
before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD
will appear unto you.
Leviticus|9:5 And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and
stood before the LORD.
Leviticus|9:6 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD
commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto
you.
Leviticus|9:7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer
thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for
thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make
an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
Leviticus|9:8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of
the sin offering, which [was] for himself.
Leviticus|9:9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he
dipped his finger in the blood, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar,
and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
Leviticus|9:10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the
liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Leviticus|9:11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the
camp.
Leviticus|9:12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons
presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the
altar.
Leviticus|9:13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the
pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt [them] upon the altar.
Leviticus|9:14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt
[them] upon the burnt offering on the altar.
Leviticus|9:15 And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat,
which [was] the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it
for sin, as the first.
Leviticus|9:16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it
according to the manner.
Leviticus|9:17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful
thereof, and burnt [it] upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the
morning.
Leviticus|9:18 He slew also the bullock and the ram [for] a sacrifice of
peace offerings, which [was] for the people: and Aaron's sons presented
unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
Leviticus|9:19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and
that which covereth [the inwards], and the kidneys, and the caul [above]
the liver:
Leviticus|9:20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the
fat upon the altar:
Leviticus|9:21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved [for]
a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
Leviticus|9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and
blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the
burnt offering, and peace offerings.
Leviticus|9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the
LORD appeared unto all the people.
Leviticus|9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and
consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: [which] when all
the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus|10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of
them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered
strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus|10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them,
and they died before the LORD.
Leviticus|10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that the LORD
spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before
all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Leviticus|10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel
the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from
before the sanctuary out of the camp.
Leviticus|10:5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of
the camp; as Moses had said.
Leviticus|10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest
ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the
whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Leviticus|10:7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD [is]
upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
Leviticus|10:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
Leviticus|10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:
[it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Leviticus|10:10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy,
and between unclean and clean;
Leviticus|10:11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the
statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus|10:12 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto
Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of
the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside
the altar: for it [is] most holy:
Leviticus|10:13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it [is]
thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for
so I am commanded.
Leviticus|10:14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a
clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for [they be]
thy due, and thy sons' due, [which] are given out of the sacrifices of
peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus|10:15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring
with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave [it for] a wave
offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee,
by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
Leviticus|10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin
offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and
Ithamar, the sons of Aaron [which were] left [alive], saying,
Leviticus|10:17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy
place, seeing it [is] most holy, and [God] hath given it you to bear the
iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
Leviticus|10:18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the
holy [place]: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy [place], as I
commanded.
Leviticus|10:19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they
offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and
such things have befallen me: and [if] I had eaten the sin offering to day,
should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?
Leviticus|10:20 And when Moses heard [that], he was content.
Leviticus|11:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto
them,
Leviticus|11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are]
the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.
Leviticus|11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and]
cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
Leviticus|11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the
cud, or of them that divide the hoof: [as] the camel, because he cheweth
the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.
Leviticus|11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth
not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.
Leviticus|11:6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth
not the hoof; he [is] unclean unto you.
Leviticus|11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be
clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you.
Leviticus|11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall
ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
Leviticus|11:9 These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat.
Leviticus|11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and
in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing
which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination unto you:
Leviticus|11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not
eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
Leviticus|11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that
[shall be] an abomination unto you.
Leviticus|11:13 And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination
among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they [are] an abomination: the
eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,
Leviticus|11:14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
Leviticus|11:15 Every raven after his kind;
Leviticus|11:16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the
hawk after his kind,
Leviticus|11:17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great
owl,
Leviticus|11:18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
Leviticus|11:19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the
lapwing, and the bat.
Leviticus|11:20 All fowls that creep, going upon [all] four, [shall be]
an abomination unto you.
Leviticus|11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that
goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal
upon the earth;
Leviticus|11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his
kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
and the grasshopper after his kind.
Leviticus|11:23 But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four
feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you.
Leviticus|11:24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth
the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|11:25 And whosoever beareth [ought] of the carcase of them
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|11:26 [The carcases] of every beast which divideth the hoof,
and [is] not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, [are] unclean unto you:
every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
Leviticus|11:27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of
beasts that go on [all] four, those [are] unclean unto you: whoso toucheth
their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|11:28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: they [are] unclean unto you.
Leviticus|11:29 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,
Leviticus|11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and
the snail, and the mole.
Leviticus|11:31 These [are] unclean to you among all that creep:
whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the
even.
Leviticus|11:32 And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when they are dead,
doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel of wood, or
raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein [any] work is
done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so
it shall be cleansed.
Leviticus|11:33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto [any] of them
falleth, whatsoever [is] in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
Leviticus|11:34 Of all meat which may be eaten, [that] on which [such]
water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every
[such] vessel shall be unclean.
Leviticus|11:35 And every [thing] whereupon [any part] of their carcase
falleth shall be unclean; [whether it be] oven, or ranges for pots, they
shall be broken down: [for] they [are] unclean, and shall be unclean unto
you.
Leviticus|11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, [wherein there is]
plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase
shall be unclean.
Leviticus|11:37 And if [any part] of their carcase fall upon any sowing
seed which is to be sown, it [shall be] clean.
Leviticus|11:38 But if [any] water be put upon the seed, and [any part]
of their carcase fall thereon, it [shall be] unclean unto you.
Leviticus|11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that
toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|11:40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of
it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|11:41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
[shall be] an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus|11:42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth
upon [all] four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they [are] an
abomination.
Leviticus|11:43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any
creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with
them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Leviticus|11:44 For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore
sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall
ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
Leviticus|11:45 For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land
of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.
Leviticus|11:46 This [is] the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of
every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that
creepeth upon the earth:
Leviticus|11:47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean,
and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be
eaten.
Leviticus|12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|12:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman
have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven
days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she
be unclean.
Leviticus|12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
Leviticus|12:4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying
three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the
sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
Leviticus|12:5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her
purifying threescore and six days.
Leviticus|12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a
son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering,
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
Leviticus|12:7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement
for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This [is]
the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
Leviticus|12:8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall
bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering,
and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement
for her, and she shall be clean.
Leviticus|13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
Leviticus|13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising,
a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh [like] the
plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto
one of his sons the priests:
Leviticus|13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of
the flesh: and [when] the hair in the plague is turned white, and the
plague in sight [be] deeper than the skin of his flesh, it [is] a plague of
leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
Leviticus|13:4 If the bright spot [be] white in the skin of his flesh,
and in sight [be] not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not
turned white; then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the plague
seven days:
Leviticus|13:5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and,
behold, [if] the plague in his sight be at a stay, [and] the plague spread
not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
Leviticus|13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day:
and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat dark, [and] the plague spread
not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab:
and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus|13:7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after
that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of
the priest again:
Leviticus|13:8 And [if] the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth
in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a
leprosy.
Leviticus|13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be
brought unto the priest;
Leviticus|13:10 And the priest shall see [him]: and, behold, [if] the
rising [be] white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and
[there be] quick raw flesh in the rising;
Leviticus|13:11 It [is] an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the
priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he [is]
unclean.
Leviticus|13:12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of [him that hath] the plague from his head even
to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
Leviticus|13:13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, [if] the
leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] clean [that
hath] the plague: it is all turned white: he [is] clean.
Leviticus|13:14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be
unclean.
Leviticus|13:15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce
him to be unclean: [for] the raw flesh [is] unclean: it [is] a leprosy.
Leviticus|13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto
white, he shall come unto the priest;
Leviticus|13:17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, [if] the
plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean
[that hath] the plague: he [is] clean.
Leviticus|13:18 The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof,
was a boil, and is healed,
Leviticus|13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or
a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be showed to the priest;
Leviticus|13:20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [be] in
sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the
boil.
Leviticus|13:21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, [there be] no
white hairs therein, and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin, but [be]
somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus|13:22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague.
Leviticus|13:23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread
not, it [is] a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus|13:24 Or if there be [any] flesh, in the skin whereof [there
is] a hot burning, and the quick [flesh] that burneth have a white bright
spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
Leviticus|13:25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, [if]
the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it [be in] sight deeper
than the skin; it [is] a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague of leprosy.
Leviticus|13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, [there be] no
white hair in the bright spot, and it [be] no lower than the [other] skin,
but [be] somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus|13:27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day:
[and] if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it [is] the plague of leprosy.
Leviticus|13:28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread
not in the skin, but it [be] somewhat dark; it [is] a rising of the
burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it [is] an
inflammation of the burning.
Leviticus|13:29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the
beard;
Leviticus|13:30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it
[be] in sight deeper than the skin; [and there be] in it a yellow thin
hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a dry scall,
[even] a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Leviticus|13:31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and,
behold, it [be] not in sight deeper than the skin, and [that there is] no
black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the plague
of the scall seven days:
Leviticus|13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
plague: and, behold, [if] the scall spread not, and there be in it no
yellow hair, and the scall [be] not in sight deeper than the skin;
Leviticus|13:33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave;
and the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the scall seven days more:
Leviticus|13:34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
scall: and, behold, [if] the scall be not spread in the skin, nor [be] in
sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and
he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus|13:35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his
cleansing;
Leviticus|13:36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the
scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he
[is] unclean.
Leviticus|13:37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and [that]
there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he [is] clean:
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus|13:38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh
bright spots, [even] white bright spots;
Leviticus|13:39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, [if] the bright
spots in the skin of their flesh [be] darkish white; it [is] a freckled
spot [that] groweth in the skin; he [is] clean.
Leviticus|13:40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he [is]
bald; [yet is] he clean.
Leviticus|13:41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of
his head toward his face, he [is] forehead bald: [yet is] he clean.
Leviticus|13:42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a
white reddish sore; it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his
bald forehead.
Leviticus|13:43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, [if]
the rising of the sore [be] white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald
forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
Leviticus|13:44 He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall
pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.
Leviticus|13:45 And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall
be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip,
and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Leviticus|13:46 All the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he
shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp
[shall] his habitation [be].
Leviticus|13:47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in,
[whether it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
Leviticus|13:48 Whether [it be] in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of
woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
Leviticus|13:49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment,
or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of
skin; it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall be showed unto the priest:
Leviticus|13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up
[it that hath] the plague seven days:
Leviticus|13:51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if
the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin; the plague [is] a
fretting leprosy; it [is] unclean.
Leviticus|13:52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or
woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is:
for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus|13:53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be
not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any
thing of skin;
Leviticus|13:54 Then the priest shall command that they wash [the thing]
wherein the plague [is], and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Leviticus|13:55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it
is washed: and, behold, [if] the plague have not changed his colour, and
the plague be not spread; it [is] unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire;
it [is] fret inward, [whether] it [be] bare within or without.
Leviticus|13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague [be]
somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Leviticus|13:57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it [is] a spreading
[plague]: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague [is] with fire.
Leviticus|13:58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever
thing of skin [it be], which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed
from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
Leviticus|13:59 This [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment
of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to
pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Leviticus|14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
Leviticus|14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the
priest shall look, and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy be healed in the
leper;
Leviticus|14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to
be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
Leviticus|14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be
killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
Leviticus|14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar
wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running water:
Leviticus|14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed
from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let
the living bird loose into the open field.
Leviticus|14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean:
and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of
his tent seven days.
Leviticus|14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave
all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair
he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his
flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus|14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three
tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one
log of oil.
Leviticus|14:11 And the priest that maketh [him] clean shall present the
man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, [at] the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus|14:12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for
a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them [for] a wave
offering before the LORD:
Leviticus|14:13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall
kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the
sin offering [is] the priest's, [so is] the trespass offering: it [is] most
holy:
Leviticus|14:14 And the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the
trespass offering, and the priest shall put [it] upon the tip of the right
ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Leviticus|14:15 And the priest shall take [some] of the log of oil, and
pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand:
Leviticus|14:16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil
that [is] in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger
seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus|14:17 And of the rest of the oil that [is] in his hand shall
the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed,
and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right
foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
Leviticus|14:18 And the remnant of the oil that [is] in the priest's
hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the
priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus|14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an
atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and
afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
Leviticus|14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the
meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for
him, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus|14:21 And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so much; then he
shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved, to make an
atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meat offering, and a log of oil;
Leviticus|14:22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is
able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt
offering.
Leviticus|14:23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his
cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, before the LORD.
Leviticus|14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass
offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them [for] a wave
offering before the LORD:
Leviticus|14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and
the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass offering, and put
[it] upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Leviticus|14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of
his own left hand:
Leviticus|14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger
[some] of the oil that [is] in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus|14:28 And the priest shall put of the oil that [is] in his
hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon
the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
Leviticus|14:29 And the rest of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand
he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus|14:30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the
young pigeons, such as he can get;
Leviticus|14:31 [Even] such as he is able to get, the one [for] a sin
offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before
the LORD.
Leviticus|14:32 This [is] the law [of him] in whom [is] the plague of
leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his
cleansing.
Leviticus|14:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Leviticus|14:34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to
you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the
land of your possession;
Leviticus|14:35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the
priest, saying, It seemeth to me [there is] as it were a plague in the
house:
Leviticus|14:36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,
before the priest go [into it] to see the plague, that all that [is] in the
house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the
house:
Leviticus|14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, [if] the
plague [be] in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or
reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall;
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:
Leviticus|14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and
shall look: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the walls of the
house;
Leviticus|14:40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the
stones in which the plague [is], and they shall cast them into an unclean
place without the city:
Leviticus|14:41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round
about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the
city into an unclean place:
Leviticus|14:42 And they shall take other stones, and put [them] in the
place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster
the house.
Leviticus|14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the
house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped
the house, and after it is plastered;
Leviticus|14:44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, [if]
the plague be spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house:
it [is] unclean.
Leviticus|14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and
the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry
[them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.
Leviticus|14:46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that
it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|14:47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes;
and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus|14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look [upon it],
and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was
plastered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the
plague is healed.
Leviticus|14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and
cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus|14:50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen
vessel over running water:
Leviticus|14:51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and
the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain
bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
Leviticus|14:52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the
cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
Leviticus|14:53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into
the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be
clean.
Leviticus|14:54 This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy,
and scall,
Leviticus|14:55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Leviticus|14:56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
Leviticus|14:57 To teach when [it is] unclean, and when [it is] clean:
this [is] the law of leprosy.
Leviticus|15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Leviticus|15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, [because of] his issue
he [is] unclean.
Leviticus|15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether
his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it
[is] his uncleanness.
Leviticus|15:4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is
unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
Leviticus|15:5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:6 And he that sitteth on [any] thing whereon he sat that
hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be
unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue
shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until
the even.
Leviticus|15:8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is
clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be
unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue
shall be unclean.
Leviticus|15:10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him
shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth [any of] those things
shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until
the even.
Leviticus|15:11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath
not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe
[himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the
issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
Leviticus|15:13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue;
then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
Leviticus|15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
Leviticus|15:15 And the priest shall offer them, the one [for] a sin
offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering; and the priest shall make
an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
Leviticus|15:16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him,
then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed
of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of
copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean
until the even.
Leviticus|15:19 And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her
flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth
her shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation
shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
Leviticus|15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes,
and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall
wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the
even.
Leviticus|15:23 And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any thing whereon she
sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus|15:24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be
upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth
shall be unclean.
Leviticus|15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out
of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the
days of her separation: she [shall be] unclean.
Leviticus|15:26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue
shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth
upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
Leviticus|15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean,
and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean
until the even.
Leviticus|15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall
number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
Leviticus|15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two
turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus|15:30 And the priest shall offer the one [for] a sin offering,
and the other [for] a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an
atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
Leviticus|15:31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my
tabernacle that [is] among them.
Leviticus|15:32 This [is] the law of him that hath an issue, and [of
him] whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
Leviticus|15:33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that
hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her
that is unclean.
Leviticus|16:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two
sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
Leviticus|16:2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy
brother, that he come not at all times into the holy [place] within the
veil before the mercy seat, which [is] upon the ark; that he die not: for I
will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Leviticus|16:3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy [place]: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus|16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have
the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle,
and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these [are] holy garments;
therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and [so] put them on.
Leviticus|16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt
offering.
Leviticus|16:6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering,
which [is] for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his
house.
Leviticus|16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before
the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus|16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for
the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
Leviticus|16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot
fell, and offer him [for] a sin offering.
Leviticus|16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat,
shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him,
[and] to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Leviticus|16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering,
which [is] for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for
his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which [is] for
himself:
Leviticus|16:12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire
from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense
beaten small, and bring [it] within the veil:
Leviticus|16:13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the
LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that [is] upon
the testimony, that he die not:
Leviticus|16:14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle [it] with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the
mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
Leviticus|16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that
[is] for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that
blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the
mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
Leviticus|16:16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy [place],
because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of
the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their
uncleanness.
Leviticus|16:17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the
congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy [place],
until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his
household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
Leviticus|16:18 And he shall go out unto the altar that [is] before the
LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the
bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put [it] upon the horns of the
altar round about.
Leviticus|16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his
finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of
the children of Israel.
Leviticus|16:20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy
[place], and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall
bring the live goat:
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 children of
Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon
the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man
into the wilderness:
Leviticus|16:22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Leviticus|16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he
went into the holy [place], and shall leave them there:
Leviticus|16:24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy
place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt
offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for
himself, and for the people.
Leviticus|16:25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the
altar.
Leviticus|16:26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the
camp.
Leviticus|16:27 And the bullock [for] the sin offering, and the goat
[for] the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the
holy [place], shall [one] carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn
in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
Leviticus|16:28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Leviticus|16:29 And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that]
in the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall afflict
your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country,
or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus|16:30 For on that day shall [the priest] make an atonement for
you, to cleanse you, [that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the
LORD.
Leviticus|16:31 It [shall be] a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall
afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Leviticus|16:32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall
consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall
make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, [even] the holy
garments:
Leviticus|16:33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary,
and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and
for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all
the people of the congregation.
Leviticus|16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to
make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a
year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus|17:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|17:2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto them; This [is] the thing which the LORD
hath commanded, saying,
Leviticus|17:3 What man soever [there be] of the house of Israel, that
killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth [it] out of
the camp,
Leviticus|17:4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle
of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and
that man shall be cut off from among his people:
Leviticus|17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their
sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring
them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
unto the priest, and offer them [for] peace offerings unto the LORD.
Leviticus|17:6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of
the LORD [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the
fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus|17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto
devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for
ever unto them throughout their generations.
Leviticus|17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man [there be]
of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that
offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus|17:9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off
from among his people.
Leviticus|17:10 And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or
of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I
will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him
off from among his people.
Leviticus|17:11 For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it
[is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus|17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of
you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you
eat blood.
Leviticus|17:13 And whatsoever man [there be] of the children of Israel,
or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any
beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof,
and cover it with dust.
Leviticus|17:14 For [it is] the life of all flesh; the blood of it [is]
for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye
shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh [is]
the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Leviticus|17:15 And every soul that eateth that which died [of itself],
or that which was torn [with beasts, whether it be] one of your own
country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe [himself]
in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
Leviticus|17:16 But if he wash [them] not, nor bathe his flesh; then he
shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus|18:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I
am the LORD your God.
Leviticus|18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt,
shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I
bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Leviticus|18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to
walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments:
which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to
him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|18:7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy
mother, shalt thou not uncover: she [is] thy mother; thou shalt not uncover
her nakedness.
Leviticus|18:8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not
uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness.
Leviticus|18:9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father,
or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad,
[even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Leviticus|18:10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy
daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
theirs [is] thine own nakedness.
Leviticus|18:11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten
of thy father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus|18:12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
sister: she [is] thy father's near kinswoman.
Leviticus|18:13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister; for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman.
Leviticus|18:14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's
brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine aunt.
Leviticus|18:15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in
law: she [is] thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus|18:16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's
wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness.
Leviticus|18:17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it
[is] wickedness.
Leviticus|18:18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex
[her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].
Leviticus|18:19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her
nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
Leviticus|18:20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy
neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Leviticus|18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the
fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the
LORD.
Leviticus|18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
[is] abomination.
Leviticus|18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down
thereto: it [is] confusion.
Leviticus|18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in
all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus|18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the
iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Leviticus|18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments,
and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own
nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus|18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land
done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)
Leviticus|18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it,
as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.
Leviticus|18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,
even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus|18:30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit
not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you,
and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am]
holy.
Leviticus|19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and
keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten
gods: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the
LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
Leviticus|19:6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the
morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the
fire.
Leviticus|19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it [is]
abominable; it shall not be accepted.
Leviticus|19:8 Therefore [every one] that eateth it shall bear his
iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that
soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus|19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the
gleanings of thy harvest.
Leviticus|19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt
thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the
poor and stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie
one to another.
Leviticus|19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt
thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him]:
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until
the morning.
Leviticus|19:14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock
before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt
not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty:
[but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus|19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down [as] a talebearer among
thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I
[am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou
shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Leviticus|19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the
children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I
[am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle
gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed:
neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus|19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that [is] a
bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom
given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because
she was not free.
Leviticus|19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD,
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, [even] a ram for a
trespass offering.
Leviticus|19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the
ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath
done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus|19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have
planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof
as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it
shall not be eaten of.
Leviticus|19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be
holy to praise the LORD [withal].
Leviticus|19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof,
that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:26 Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither
shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Leviticus|19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Leviticus|19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a
whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of
wickedness.
Leviticus|19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I
[am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek
after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the
face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
shall not vex him.
Leviticus|19:34 [But] the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto
you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard,
in weight, or in measure.
Leviticus|19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt.
Leviticus|19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|20:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel,
Whosoever [he be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn in Israel, that giveth [any] of his seed unto Molech; he shall
surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus|20:3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him
off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech,
to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
Leviticus|20:4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes
from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Leviticus|20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to
commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus|20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar
spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my
face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus|20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [am]
the LORD your God.
Leviticus|20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I [am] the
LORD which sanctify you.
Leviticus|20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall
be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood
[shall be] upon him.
Leviticus|20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with [another]
man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife,
the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus|20:11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath
uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to
death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
Leviticus|20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them
shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood
[shall be] upon them.
Leviticus|20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put
to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
Leviticus|20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it [is]
wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be
no wickedness among you.
Leviticus|20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to
death: and ye shall slay the beast.
Leviticus|20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down
thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put
to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
Leviticus|20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's
daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight
of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear
his iniquity.
Leviticus|20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness,
and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she
hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off
from among their people.
Leviticus|20:19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they
shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus|20:20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath
uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
childless.
Leviticus|20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it [is] an
unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be
childless.
Leviticus|20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
therein, spue you not out.
Leviticus|20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation,
which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.
Leviticus|20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land,
and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk
and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other]
people.
Leviticus|20:25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts
and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make
your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living
thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as
unclean.
Leviticus|20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy,
and have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.
Leviticus|20:27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that
is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with
stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.
Leviticus|21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the
sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead
among his people:
Leviticus|21:2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, [that is], for
his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and
for his brother,
Leviticus|21:3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which
hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
Leviticus|21:4 [But] he shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man
among his people, to profane himself.
Leviticus|21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither
shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in
their flesh.
Leviticus|21:6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the
name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, [and] the
bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus|21:7 They shall not take a wife [that is] a whore, or profane;
neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he [is] holy
unto his God.
Leviticus|21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the
bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which
sanctify you, [am] holy.
Leviticus|21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by
playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus|21:10 And [he that is] the high priest among his brethren,
upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to
put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
Leviticus|21:11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile
himself for his father, or for his mother;
Leviticus|21:12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane
the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God
[is] upon him: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus|21:14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, [or] an
harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own
people to wife.
Leviticus|21:15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for
I the LORD do sanctify him.
Leviticus|21:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever [he be] of thy seed
in their generations that hath [any] blemish, let him not approach to offer
the bread of his God.
Leviticus|21:18 For whatsoever man [he be] that hath a blemish, he shall
not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any
thing superfluous,
Leviticus|21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Leviticus|21:20 Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in
his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
Leviticus|21:21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the
priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he
hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus|21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, [both] of the most
holy, and of the holy.
Leviticus|21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh
unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus|21:24 And Moses told [it] unto Aaron, and to his sons, and
unto all the children of Israel.
Leviticus|22:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|22:2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they
profane not my holy name [in those things] which they hallow unto me: I
[am] the LORD.
Leviticus|22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever [he be] of all your seed among
your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of
Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul
shall be cut off from my presence: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron [is] a leper, or
hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be
clean. And whoso toucheth any thing [that is] unclean [by] the dead, or a
man whose seed goeth from him;
Leviticus|22:5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may
be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever
uncleanness he hath;
Leviticus|22:6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean
until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh
with water.
Leviticus|22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall
afterward eat of the holy things; because it [is] his food.
Leviticus|22:8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn [with beasts], he
shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|22:9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear
sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify
them.
Leviticus|22:10 There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing: a
sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat [of] the holy
thing.
Leviticus|22:11 But if the priest buy [any] soul with his money, he
shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his
meat.
Leviticus|22:12 If the priest's daughter also be [married] unto a
stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Leviticus|22:13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced,
and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her
youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat
thereof.
Leviticus|22:14 And if a man eat [of] the holy thing unwittingly, then
he shall put the fifth [part] thereof unto it, and shall give [it] unto the
priest with the holy thing.
Leviticus|22:15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the
children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
Leviticus|22:16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when
they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus|22:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|22:18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the
children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of
Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all
his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto
the LORD for a burnt offering;
Leviticus|22:19 [Ye shall offer] at your own will a male without
blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Leviticus|22:20 [But] whatsoever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not
offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Leviticus|22:21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or
sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish
therein.
Leviticus|22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy,
or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by
fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
Leviticus|22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing
superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a
freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
Leviticus|22:24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised,
or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make [any offering thereof]
in your land.
Leviticus|22:25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread
of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and]
blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Leviticus|22:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth,
then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and
thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
Leviticus|22:28 And [whether it be] cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and
her young both in one day.
Leviticus|22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto
the LORD, offer [it] at your own will.
Leviticus|22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave
none of it until the morrow: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I
[am] the LORD.
Leviticus|22:32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be
hallowed among the children of Israel: I [am] the LORD which hallow you,
Leviticus|22:33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your
God: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
[Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy
convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.
Leviticus|23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the
sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it
[is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus|23:4 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy
convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Leviticus|23:5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is]
the LORD's passover.
Leviticus|23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast
of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Leviticus|23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus|23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
seven days: in the seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work [therein].
Leviticus|23:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the
harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your
harvest unto the priest:
Leviticus|23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be
accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Leviticus|23:12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he
lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:13 And the meat offering thereof [shall be] two tenth deals
of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD
[for] a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine,
the fourth [part] of an hin.
Leviticus|23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor
green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto
your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in
all your dwellings.
Leviticus|23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the
sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven
sabbaths shall be complete:
Leviticus|23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye
number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves
of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with
leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without
blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall
be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and
their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour
unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin
offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace
offerings.
Leviticus|23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD with the two lambs: they
shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Leviticus|23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may
be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it
shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your
generations.
Leviticus|23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest,
neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave
them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the
seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a
memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
Leviticus|23:25 Ye shall do no servile work [therein]: but ye shall
offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|23:27 Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there
shall be] a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and
ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
Leviticus|23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it [is] a
day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Leviticus|23:29 For whatsoever soul [it be] that shall not be afflicted
in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus|23:30 And whatsoever soul [it be] that doeth any work in that
same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Leviticus|23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: [it shall be] a statute
for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus|23:32 It [shall be] unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall
afflict your souls: in the ninth [day] of the month at even, from even unto
even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
Leviticus|23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth
day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven
days unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:35 On the first day [shall be] an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work [therein].
Leviticus|23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it [is] a solemn
assembly; [and] ye shall do no servile work [therein].
Leviticus|23:37 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall
proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink
offerings, every thing upon his day:
Leviticus|23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts,
and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye
give unto the LORD.
Leviticus|23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye
have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD
seven days: on the first day [shall be] a sabbath, and on the eighth day
[shall be] a sabbath.
Leviticus|23:40 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.
Leviticus|23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in
the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall
celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus|23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are
Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
Leviticus|23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children
of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt:
I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus|24:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee
pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn
continually.
Leviticus|24:3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of
the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning
before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute for ever in your
generations.
Leviticus|24:4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before
the LORD continually.
Leviticus|24:5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes
thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Leviticus|24:6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon
the pure table before the LORD.
Leviticus|24:7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row,
that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire
unto the LORD.
Leviticus|24:8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD
continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting
covenant.
Leviticus|24:9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat
it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of the offerings of
the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
Leviticus|24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father [was]
an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the
Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
Leviticus|24:11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name [of
the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's
name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Leviticus|24:12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD
might be showed them.
Leviticus|24:13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|24:14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and
let all that heard [him] lay their hands upon his head, and let all the
congregation stone him.
Leviticus|24:15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
Leviticus|24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall
surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone
him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he
blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.
Leviticus|24:17 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to
death.
Leviticus|24:18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast
for beast.
Leviticus|24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he
hath done, so shall it be done to him;
Leviticus|24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he
hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him [again].
Leviticus|24:21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he
that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
Leviticus|24:22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the
stranger, as for one of your own country: for I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they
should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with
stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus|25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Leviticus|25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a
sabbath unto the LORD.
Leviticus|25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
Leviticus|25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto
the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor
prune thy vineyard.
Leviticus|25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou
shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it
is a year of rest unto the land.
Leviticus|25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for
thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and
for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Leviticus|25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy
land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Leviticus|25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee,
seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall
be unto thee forty and nine years.
Leviticus|25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound
on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye
make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Leviticus|25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it
shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his
possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus|25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall
not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the
grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.
Leviticus|25:12 For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Leviticus|25:13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man
unto his possession.
Leviticus|25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest
[ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Leviticus|25:15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou
shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the
fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Leviticus|25:16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase
the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt
diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of
the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Leviticus|25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou
shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Leviticus|25:19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat
your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Leviticus|25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year?
behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus|25:21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth
year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Leviticus|25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old
fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the
old [store].
Leviticus|25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is]
mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
Leviticus|25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
redemption for the land.
Leviticus|25:25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some]
of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he
redeem that which his brother sold.
Leviticus|25:26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be
able to redeem it;
Leviticus|25:27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and
restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return
unto his possession.
Leviticus|25:28 But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that
which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the
year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return
unto his possession.
Leviticus|25:29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city,
then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; [within] a full
year may he redeem it.
Leviticus|25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full
year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for
ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out
in the jubilee.
Leviticus|25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round
about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be
redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
Leviticus|25:32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the
houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any
time.
Leviticus|25:33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house
that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year
of] jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their
possession among the children of Israel.
Leviticus|25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be
sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession.
Leviticus|25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay
with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or
a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Leviticus|25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy
God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Leviticus|25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend
him thy victuals for increase.
Leviticus|25:38 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.
Leviticus|25:39 And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen
poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bondservant:
Leviticus|25:40 [But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he
shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee:
Leviticus|25:41 And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his
children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
possession of his fathers shall he return.
Leviticus|25:42 For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of
the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Leviticus|25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear
thy God.
Leviticus|25:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt
have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye
buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Leviticus|25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do
sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are]
with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
Leviticus|25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your
children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your
bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall
not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus|25:47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy
brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger
[or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
Leviticus|25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of
his brethren may redeem him:
Leviticus|25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or
[any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he
be able, he may redeem himself.
Leviticus|25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the
year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his
sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of
an hired servant shall it be with him.
Leviticus|25:51 If [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto
them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that
he was bought for.
Leviticus|25:52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of
jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall
he give him again the price of his redemption.
Leviticus|25:53 [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him:
[and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
Leviticus|25:54 And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he
shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him.
Leviticus|25:55 For unto me the children of Israel [are] servants; they
[are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the
LORD your God.
Leviticus|26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear
you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in
your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus|26:2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I
[am] the LORD.
Leviticus|26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and
do them;
Leviticus|26:4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land
shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their
fruit.
Leviticus|26:5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the
vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to
the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Leviticus|26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down,
and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the
land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Leviticus|26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall
before you by the sword.
Leviticus|26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of
you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before
you by the sword.
Leviticus|26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful,
and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus|26:10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old
because of the new.
Leviticus|26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul
shall not abhor you.
Leviticus|26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye
shall be my people.
Leviticus|26:13 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken
the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Leviticus|26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all
these commandments;
Leviticus|26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul
abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that
ye break my covenant:
Leviticus|26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over
you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes,
and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus|26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be
slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye
shall flee when none pursueth you.
Leviticus|26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus|26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will
make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Leviticus|26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land
shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield
their fruits.
Leviticus|26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken
unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your
sins.
Leviticus|26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob
you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number;
and your [high] ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus|26:23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things,
but will walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus|26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish
you yet seven times for your sins.
Leviticus|26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the
quarrel of [my] covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your
cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered
into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus|26:26 [And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your
bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Leviticus|26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but
walk contrary unto me;
Leviticus|26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I,
even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus|26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh
of your daughters shall ye eat.
Leviticus|26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your
images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul
shall abhor you.
Leviticus|26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet
odours.
Leviticus|26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your
enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Leviticus|26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw
out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities
waste.
Leviticus|26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it
lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the
land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Leviticus|26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it
did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus|26:36 And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of
a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a
sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Leviticus|26:37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before
a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before
your enemies.
Leviticus|26:38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of
your enemies shall eat you up.
Leviticus|26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their
fathers shall they pine away with them.
Leviticus|26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity
of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and
that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Leviticus|26:41 And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity:
Leviticus|26:42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my
covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and
I will remember the land.
Leviticus|26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her
sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of
the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my
judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Leviticus|26:44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their
enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy
them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I [am] the LORD their
God.
Leviticus|26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of
their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD.
Leviticus|26:46 These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which
the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the
hand of Moses.
Leviticus|27:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus|27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD
by thy estimation.
Leviticus|27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years
old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels
of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus|27:4 And if it [be] a female, then thy estimation shall be
thirty shekels.
Leviticus|27:5 And if [it be] from five years old even unto twenty years
old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the
female ten shekels.
Leviticus|27:6 And if [it be] from a month old even unto five years old,
then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for
the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver.
Leviticus|27:7 And if [it be] from sixty years old and above; if [it be]
a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female
ten shekels.
Leviticus|27:8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall
present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him;
according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
Leviticus|27:9 And if [it be] a beast, whereof men bring an offering
unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be
holy.
Leviticus|27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad,
or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it
and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
Leviticus|27:11 And if [it be] any unclean beast, of which they do not
offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the
priest:
Leviticus|27:12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or
bad: as thou valuest it, [who art] the priest, so shall it be.
Leviticus|27:13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a
fifth [part] thereof unto thy estimation.
Leviticus|27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house [to be] holy
unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or
bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
Leviticus|27:15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then
he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of thy estimation unto it, and
it shall be his.
Leviticus|27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of
a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the
seed thereof: an homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of
silver.
Leviticus|27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee,
according to thy estimation it shall stand.
Leviticus|27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the
priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain,
even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy
estimation.
Leviticus|27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise
redeem it, then he shall add the fifth [part] of the money of thy
estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
Leviticus|27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold
the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
Leviticus|27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall
be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be
the priest's.
Leviticus|27:22 And if [a man] sanctify unto the LORD a field which he
hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;
Leviticus|27:23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubilee: and he shall give thine
estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD.
Leviticus|27:24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto
him of whom it was bought, [even] to him to whom the possession of the land
[did belong].
Leviticus|27:25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel
of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Leviticus|27:26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the
LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep:
it [is] the LORD'S.
Leviticus|27:27 And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem
[it] according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth [part] of it
thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy
estimation.
Leviticus|27:28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall
devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, [both] of man and beast, and of
the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing
[is] most holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus|27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be
redeemed; [but] shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus|27:30 And all the tithe of the land, [whether] of the seed of
the land, [or] of the fruit of the tree, [is] the LORD'S: [it is] holy unto
the LORD.
Leviticus|27:31 And if a man will at all redeem [ought] of his tithes,
he shall add thereto the fifth [part] thereof.
Leviticus|27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock,
[even] of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto
the LORD.
Leviticus|27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither
shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change
thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
Leviticus|27:34 These [are] the commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Numbers|1:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the second month,
in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers|1:2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the
number of [their] names, every male by their polls;
Numbers|1:3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go
forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Numbers|1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one
head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers|1:5 And these [are] the names of the men that shall stand with
you: of [the tribe of] Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers|1:6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers|1:7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers|1:8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers|1:9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers|1:10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of
Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers|1:11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers|1:12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers|1:13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers|1:14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers|1:15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers|1:16 These [were] the renowned of the congregation, princes of
the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
Numbers|1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by
[their] names:
Numbers|1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the
first [day] of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after
their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Numbers|1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers|1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers|1:21 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|1:22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of
them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers|1:23 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Simeon, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers|1:24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
Numbers|1:25 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Gad, [were] forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers|1:26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
Numbers|1:27 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Judah, [were] threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers|1:28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
Numbers|1:29 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Issachar, [were] fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
Numbers|1:31 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Zebulun, [were] fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|1:32 Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of
Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers|1:33 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Ephraim, [were] forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
Numbers|1:35 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Manasseh, [were] thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers|1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of
the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
Numbers|1:37 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|1:38 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
Numbers|1:39 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Dan, [were] threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers|1:40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
Numbers|1:41 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able
to go forth to war;
Numbers|1:43 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Naphtali, [were] fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|1:44 These [are] those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, [being] twelve men: each one was for
the house of his fathers.
Numbers|1:45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of
Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Numbers|1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand
and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers|1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
Numbers|1:48 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|1:49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take
the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Numbers|1:50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of
testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that
[belong] to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels
thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the
tabernacle.
Numbers|1:51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall
take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall
set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers|1:52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every
man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their
hosts.
Numbers|1:53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of
Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of
testimony.
Numbers|1:54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the
LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Numbers|2:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers|2:2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own
standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the
tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Numbers|2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they
of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and
Nahshon the son of Amminadab [shall be] captain of the children of Judah.
Numbers|2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Numbers|2:5 And those that do pitch next unto him [shall be] the tribe
of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar [shall be] captain of the
children of Issachar.
Numbers|2:6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, [were]
fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|2:7 [Then] the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon
[shall be] captain of the children of Zebulun.
Numbers|2:8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, [were]
fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|2:9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] an
hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred,
throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
Numbers|2:10 On the south side [shall be] the standard of the camp of
Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben
[shall be] Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers|2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, [were]
forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|2:12 And those which pitch by him [shall be] the tribe of
Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon [shall be] Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers|2:13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers|2:14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad
[shall be] Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Numbers|2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers|2:16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] an
hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty,
throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
Numbers|2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward
with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so
shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
Numbers|2:18 On the west side [shall be] the standard of the camp of
Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim
[shall be] Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers|2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|2:20 And by him [shall be] the tribe of Manasseh: and the
captain of the children of Manasseh [shall be] Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
Numbers|2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Numbers|2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of
Benjamin [shall be] Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers|2:23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|2:24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim [were] an
hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their
armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
Numbers|2:25 The standard of the camp of Dan [shall be] on the north
side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan [shall be]
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers|2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers|2:27 And those that encamp by him [shall be] the tribe of Asher:
and the captain of the children of Asher [shall be] Pagiel the son of
Ocran.
Numbers|2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|2:29 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children
of Naphtali [shall be] Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers|2:30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were]
fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|2:31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan [were] an
hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall
go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers|2:32 These [are] those which were numbered of the children of
Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the
camps throughout their hosts [were] six hundred thousand and three thousand
and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers|2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|2:34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the
LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set
forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their
fathers.
Numbers|3:1 These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the
day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Numbers|3:2 And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the
firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Numbers|3:3 These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests
which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's
office.
Numbers|3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered
strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no
children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the
sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers|3:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron
the priest, that they may minister unto him.
Numbers|3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service
of the tabernacle.
Numbers|3:8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the
service of the tabernacle.
Numbers|3:9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons:
they [are] wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
Numbers|3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall
wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be
put to death.
Numbers|3:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|3:12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the
children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix
among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
Numbers|3:13 Because all the firstborn [are] mine; [for] on the day that
I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the
firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I [am] the
LORD.
Numbers|3:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
saying,
Numbers|3:15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their
fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt
thou number them.
Numbers|3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD,
as he was commanded.
Numbers|3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon,
and Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers|3:18 And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their
families; Libni, and Shimei.
Numbers|3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and
Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Numbers|3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi.
These [are] the families of the Levites according to the house of their
fathers.
Numbers|3:21 Of Gershon [was] the family of the Libnites, and the family
of the Shimites: these [are] the families of the Gershonites.
Numbers|3:22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number
of all the males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were
numbered of them [were] seven thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the
tabernacle westward.
Numbers|3:24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites
[shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers|3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of
the congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering
thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Numbers|3:26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door
of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about,
and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
Numbers|3:27 And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites, and the
family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family
of the Uzzielites: these [are] the families of the Kohathites.
Numbers|3:28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and
upward, [were] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary.
Numbers|3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side
of the tabernacle southward.
Numbers|3:30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Numbers|3:31 And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the
candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith
they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
Numbers|3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be] chief
over the chief of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of them that keep
the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers|3:33 Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family
of the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari.
Numbers|3:34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the
number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [were] six thousand
and two hundred.
Numbers|3:35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
Merari [was] Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these] shall pitch on the side of
the tabernacle northward.
Numbers|3:36 And [under] the custody and charge of the sons of Merari
[shall be] the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the
pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and
all that serveth thereto,
Numbers|3:37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
Numbers|3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the
east, [even] before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be]
Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the
charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall
be put to death.
Numbers|3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and
Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families,
all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty and two thousand.
Numbers|3:40 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of
the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take
the number of their names.
Numbers|3:41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I [am] the LORD)
instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle
of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the
children of Israel.
Numbers|3:42 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the
firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers|3:43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a
month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and
two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
Numbers|3:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle;
and the Levites shall be mine: I [am] the LORD.
Numbers|3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred
and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel,
which are more than the Levites;
Numbers|3:47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after
the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take [them]: (the shekel [is] twenty
gerahs:)
Numbers|3:48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of
them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
Numbers|3:49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over
and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
Numbers|3:50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the
money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five [shekels], after
the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers|3:51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto
Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Numbers|4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers|4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of
Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
Numbers|4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,
all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Numbers|4:4 This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy things:
Numbers|4:5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his
sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and cover the ark of
testimony with it:
Numbers|4:6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and
shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves
thereof.
Numbers|4:7 And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of
blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers
to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
Numbers|4:8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and
cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the
staves thereof.
Numbers|4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the
candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto
it:
Numbers|4:10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a
covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar.
Numbers|4:11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of
blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the
staves thereof:
Numbers|4:12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry,
wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put [them] in a cloth of
blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put
[them] on a bar:
Numbers|4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and
spread a purple cloth thereon:
Numbers|4:14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof,
wherewith they minister about it, [even] the censers, the fleshhooks, and
the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.
Numbers|4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering
the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set
forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear [it]: but they
shall not touch [any] holy thing, lest they die. These [things are] the
burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers|4:16 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
[pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily
meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the
tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the
vessels thereof.
Numbers|4:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers|4:18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites
from among the Levites:
Numbers|4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die,
when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go
in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
Numbers|4:20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are
covered, lest they die.
Numbers|4:21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|4:22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the
houses of their fathers, by their families;
Numbers|4:23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old
shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the
work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers|4:24 This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites,
to serve, and for burdens:
Numbers|4:25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the
badgers' skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers|4:26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door
of the gate of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar
round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and
all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
Numbers|4:27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the
service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all
their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.
Numbers|4:28 This [is] the service of the families of the sons of
Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge [shall be]
under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers|4:29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after
their families, by the house of their fathers;
Numbers|4:30 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old
shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the
work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers|4:31 And this [is] the charge of their burden, according to all
their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the
tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets
thereof,
Numbers|4:32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their
sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and
with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the
charge of their burden.
Numbers|4:33 This [is] the service of the families of the sons of
Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the
congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers|4:34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation
numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the
house of their fathers,
Numbers|4:35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of
the congregation:
Numbers|4:36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were
two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
Numbers|4:37 These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the
Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers|4:38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon,
throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
Numbers|4:39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of
the congregation,
Numbers|4:40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their
families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred
and thirty.
Numbers|4:41 These [are] they that were numbered of the families of the
sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment
of the LORD.
Numbers|4:42 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,
Numbers|4:43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of
the congregation,
Numbers|4:44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families,
were three thousand and two hundred.
Numbers|4:45 These [be] those that were numbered of the families of the
sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the
LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers|4:46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and
Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the
house of their fathers,
Numbers|4:47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of
the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers|4:48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand
and five hundred and fourscore.
Numbers|4:49 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered
by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to
his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|5:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the
camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is
defiled by the dead:
Numbers|5:3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp
shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I
dwell.
Numbers|5:4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without
the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers|5:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|5:6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall
commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that
person be guilty;
Numbers|5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and
he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto
it the fifth [part] thereof, and give [it] unto [him] against whom he hath
trespassed.
Numbers|5:8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass
unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest;
beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for
him.
Numbers|5:9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
Numbers|5:10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever
any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
Numbers|5:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|5:12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If
any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
Numbers|5:13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the
eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and [there be]
no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the manner];
Numbers|5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous
of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon
him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Numbers|5:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he
shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley
meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it
[is] an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to
remembrance.
Numbers|5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the
LORD:
Numbers|5:17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel;
and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall
take, and put [it] into the water:
Numbers|5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands,
which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the
bitter water that causeth the curse:
Numbers|5:19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto
the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside
to uncleanness [with another] instead of thy husband, be thou free from
this bitter water that causeth the curse:
Numbers|5:20 But if thou hast gone aside [to another] instead of thy
husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside
thine husband:
Numbers|5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a
curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to
rot, and thy belly to swell;
Numbers|5:22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman
shall say, Amen, amen.
Numbers|5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he
shall blot [them] out with the bitter water:
Numbers|5:24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that
causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into
her, [and become] bitter.
Numbers|5:25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it
upon the altar:
Numbers|5:26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering,
[even] the memorial thereof, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward
shall cause the woman to drink the water.
Numbers|5:27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall
come to pass, [that], if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her
husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and
become] bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the
woman shall be a curse among her people.
Numbers|5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she
shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Numbers|5:29 This [is] the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside
[to another] instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Numbers|5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the
priest shall execute upon her all this law.
Numbers|5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this
woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers|6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
either man or woman shall separate [themselves] to vow a vow of a Nazarite,
to separate [themselves] unto the LORD:
Numbers|6:3 He shall separate [himself] from wine and strong drink, and
shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall
he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers|6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is
made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
Numbers|6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no
razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he
separateth [himself] unto the LORD, he shall be holy, [and] shall let the
locks of the hair of his head grow.
Numbers|6:6 All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he
shall come at no dead body.
Numbers|6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the
consecration of his God [is] upon his head.
Numbers|6:8 All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the LORD.
Numbers|6:9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled
the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of
his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Numbers|6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two
young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation:
Numbers|6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he
sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
Numbers|6:12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his
separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass
offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his
separation was defiled.
Numbers|6:13 And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers|6:14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb
of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of
the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for peace offerings,
Numbers|6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and
their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
Numbers|6:16 And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and
shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
Numbers|6:17 And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace
offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest
shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|6:18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation
[at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the
hair of the head of his separation, and put [it] in the fire which [is]
under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
Numbers|6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram,
and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and
shall put [them] upon the hands of the Nazarite, after [the hair of] his
separation is shaven:
Numbers|6:20 And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before
the LORD: this [is] holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave
shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
Numbers|6:21 This [is] the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of]
his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside [that] that his hand
shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law
of his separation.
Numbers|6:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|6:23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye
shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
Numbers|6:24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
Numbers|6:25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious
unto thee:
Numbers|6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
Numbers|6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and
I will bless them.
Numbers|7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up
the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the
instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had
anointed them, and sanctified them;
Numbers|7:2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their
fathers, who [were] the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were
numbered, offered:
Numbers|7:3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered
wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one
an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
Numbers|7:4 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|7:5 Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites,
to every man according to his service.
Numbers|7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto
the Levites.
Numbers|7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
according to their service:
Numbers|7:8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of
Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of
Aaron the priest.
Numbers|7:9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the
service of the sanctuary belonging unto them [was that] they should bear
upon their shoulders.
Numbers|7:10 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the
day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before
the altar.
Numbers|7:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their
offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
Numbers|7:12 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon
the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
Numbers|7:13 And his offering [was] one silver charger, the weight
thereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them [were] full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:14 One spoon of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense:
Numbers|7:15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers|7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of
Issachar, did offer:
Numbers|7:19 He offered [for] his offering one silver charger, the
weight whereof [was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:20 One spoon of gold of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers|7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun, [did offer]:
Numbers|7:25 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:26 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers|7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
children of Reuben, [did offer]:
Numbers|7:31 His offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:32 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers|7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince
of the children of Simeon, [did offer]:
Numbers|7:37 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:38 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers|7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
children of Gad, [offered]:
Numbers|7:43 His offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty [shekels], a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:44 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers|7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of
the children of Ephraim, [offered]:
Numbers|7:49 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:50 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers|7:54 On the eighth day [offered] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,
prince of the children of Manasseh:
Numbers|7:55 His offering [was] one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:56 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers|7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
children of Benjamin, [offered]:
Numbers|7:61 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:62 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers|7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of
the children of Dan, [offered]:
Numbers|7:67 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:68 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers|7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
children of Asher, [offered]:
Numbers|7:73 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:74 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers|7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the
children of Naphtali, [offered]:
Numbers|7:79 His offering [was] one silver charger, the weight whereof
[was] an hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers|7:80 One golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense:
Numbers|7:81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for
a burnt offering:
Numbers|7:82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers|7:83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this [was] the offering
of Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers|7:84 This [was] the dedication of the altar, in the day when it
was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve
silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
Numbers|7:85 Each charger of silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty
[shekels], each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand
and four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers|7:86 The golden spoons [were] twelve, full of incense,
[weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the
gold of the spoons [was] an hundred and twenty [shekels].
Numbers|7:87 All the oxen for the burnt offering [were] twelve bullocks,
the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat
offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.
Numbers|7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings
[were] twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the
lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the dedication of the altar,
after that it was anointed.
Numbers|7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking
unto him from off the mercy seat that [was] upon the ark of testimony, from
between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
Numbers|8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|8:2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the
lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
Numbers|8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against
the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|8:4 And this work of the candlestick [was of] beaten gold, unto
the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, [was] beaten work: according
unto the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the
candlestick.
Numbers|8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and
cleanse them.
Numbers|8:7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle
water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let
them wash their clothes, and [so] make themselves clean.
Numbers|8:8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering,
[even] fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou
take for a sin offering.
Numbers|8:9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of
the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children
of Israel together:
Numbers|8:10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the
children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
Numbers|8:11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] an
offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of
the LORD.
Numbers|8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the other
[for] a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the
Levites.
Numbers|8:13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his
sons, and offer them [for] an offering unto the LORD.
Numbers|8:14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the
children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers|8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service
of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and
offer them [for] an offering.
Numbers|8:16 For they [are] wholly given unto me from among the children
of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, [even instead of] the
firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
Numbers|8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel [are] mine,
[both] man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land
of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers|8:18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the
children of Israel.
Numbers|8:19 And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to
his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the
children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an
atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the
children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the
sanctuary.
Numbers|8:20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the
children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD
commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto
them.
Numbers|8:21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their
clothes; and Aaron offered them [as] an offering before the LORD; and Aaron
made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
Numbers|8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in
the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as
the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
Numbers|8:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|8:24 This [is it] that [belongeth] unto the Levites: from twenty
and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers|8:25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting
upon the service [thereof], and shall serve no more:
Numbers|8:26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of
the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt
thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
Numbers|9:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of
Egypt, saying,
Numbers|9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his
appointed season.
Numbers|9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep
it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according
to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
Numbers|9:4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they
should keep the passover.
Numbers|9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the
first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the
LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers|9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead
body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they
came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
Numbers|9:7 And those men said unto him, We [are] defiled by the dead
body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an
offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Numbers|9:8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what
the LORD will command concerning you.
Numbers|9:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|9:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of
you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be]
in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Numbers|9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall
keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].
Numbers|9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any
bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep
it.
Numbers|9:13 But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and
forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from
among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his
appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Numbers|9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep
the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and
according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one
ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Numbers|9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud
covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at even
there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the
morning.
Numbers|9:16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it [by day], and the
appearance of fire by night.
Numbers|9:17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then
after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the
cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
Numbers|9:18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel
journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the
cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
Numbers|9:19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many
days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and
journeyed not.
Numbers|9:20 And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the
tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their
tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
Numbers|9:21 And [so] it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the
morning, and [that] the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they
journeyed: whether [it was] by day or by night that the cloud was taken up,
they journeyed.
Numbers|9:22 Or [whether it were] two days, or a month, or a year, that
the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of
Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up,
they journeyed.
Numbers|9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents,
and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of
the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers|10:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|10:2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt
thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly,
and for the journeying of the camps.
Numbers|10:3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall
assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Numbers|10:4 And if they blow [but] with one [trumpet], then the
princes, [which are] heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather
themselves unto thee.
Numbers|10:5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east
parts shall go forward.
Numbers|10:6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that
lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm
for their journeys.
Numbers|10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye
shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers|10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the
trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout
your generations.
Numbers|10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that
oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall
be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your
enemies.
Numbers|10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days,
and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over
your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that
they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I [am] the LORD your
God.
Numbers|10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth [day] of the second
month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the
tabernacle of the testimony.
Numbers|10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the
wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers|10:13 And they first took their journey according to the
commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers|10:14 In the first [place] went the standard of the camp of the
children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host [was]
Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers|10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar
[was] Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers|10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun
[was] Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers|10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon
and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
Numbers|10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward
according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elizur the son of
Shedeur.
Numbers|10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon
[was] Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers|10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad
[was] Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers|10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and
[the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came.
Numbers|10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim
set forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elishama the
son of Ammihud.
Numbers|10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh
[was] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers|10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
[was] Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers|10:25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set
forward, [which was] the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts:
and over his host [was] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers|10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher
[was] Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers|10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
[was] Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers|10:28 Thus [were] the journeyings of the children of Israel
according to their armies, when they set forward.
Numbers|10:29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the
Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which
the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee
good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Numbers|10:30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to
mine own land, and to my kindred.
Numbers|10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou
knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us
instead of eyes.
Numbers|10:32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be,
that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto
thee.
Numbers|10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days'
journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the
three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
Numbers|10:34 And the cloud of the LORD [was] upon them by day, when
they went out of the camp.
Numbers|10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses
said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that
hate thee flee before thee.
Numbers|10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many
thousands of Israel.
Numbers|11:1 And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD:
and the LORD heard [it]; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the
LORD burnt among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts
of the camp.
Numbers|11:2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto
the LORD, the fire was quenched.
Numbers|11:3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the
fire of the LORD burnt among them.
Numbers|11:4 And the mixed multitude that [was] among them fell a
lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall
give us flesh to eat?
Numbers|11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
Numbers|11:6 But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at
all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes.
Numbers|11:7 And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour
thereof as the colour of bdellium.
Numbers|11:8 [And] the people went about, and gathered [it], and ground
[it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made
cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
Numbers|11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna
fell upon it.
Numbers|11:10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their
families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was
kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
Numbers|11:11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou
afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight,
that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
Numbers|11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them,
that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing
father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto
their fathers?
Numbers|11:13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people?
for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
Numbers|11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it
is] too heavy for me.
Numbers|11:15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out
of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my
wretchedness.
Numbers|11:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men
of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people,
and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Numbers|11:17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will
take of the spirit which [is] upon thee, and will put [it] upon them; and
they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear [it] not
thyself alone.
Numbers|11:18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against
to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the
LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for [it was] well with us in
Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Numbers|11:19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days,
neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers|11:20 [But] even a whole month, until it come out at your
nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the
LORD which [is] among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we
forth out of Egypt?
Numbers|11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I [am], [are] six
hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that
they may eat a whole month.
Numbers|11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to
suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for
them, to suffice them?
Numbers|11:23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed
short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or
not.
Numbers|11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the
LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set
them round about the tabernacle.
Numbers|11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
took of the spirit that [was] upon him, and gave [it] unto the seventy
elders: and it came to pass, [that], when the spirit rested upon them, they
prophesied, and did not cease.
Numbers|11:26 But there remained two [of the] men in the camp, the name
of the one [was] Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit
rested upon them; and they [were] of them that were written, but went not
out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers|11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad
and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Numbers|11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, [one] of
his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
Numbers|11:29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would
God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, [and] that the LORD would put
his spirit upon them!
Numbers|11:30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of
Israel.
Numbers|11:31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought
quails from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp, as it were a day's
journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side,
round about the camp, and as it were two cubits [high] upon the face of the
earth.
Numbers|11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all [that]
night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered
least gathered ten homers: and they spread [them] all abroad for themselves
round about the camp.
Numbers|11:33 And while the flesh [was] yet between their teeth, ere it
was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the
LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers|11:34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah:
because there they buried the people that lusted.
Numbers|11:35 [And] the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto
Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Numbers|12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the
Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Numbers|12:2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses?
hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard [it].
Numbers|12:3 (Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which
[were] upon the face of the earth.)
Numbers|12:4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and
unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And
they three came out.
Numbers|12:5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and
stood [in] the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and
they both came forth.
Numbers|12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among
you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, [and] will
speak unto him in a dream.
Numbers|12:7 My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful in all mine
house.
Numbers|12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and
not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold:
wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Numbers|12:9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he
departed.
Numbers|12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and,
behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon
Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.
Numbers|12:11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee,
lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we
have sinned.
Numbers|12:12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half
consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Numbers|12:13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O
God, I beseech thee.
Numbers|12:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit
in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from
the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].
Numbers|12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the
people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
Numbers|12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and
pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers|13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|13:2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan,
which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers
shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
Numbers|13:3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the
wilderness of Paran: all those men [were] heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers|13:4 And these [were] their names: of the tribe of Reuben,
Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Numbers|13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
Numbers|13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers|13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Numbers|13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
Numbers|13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
Numbers|13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
Numbers|13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of
Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Numbers|13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
Numbers|13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
Numbers|13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
Numbers|13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
Numbers|13:16 These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy
out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
Numbers|13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and
said unto them, Get you up this [way] southward, and go up into the
mountain:
Numbers|13:18 And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that
dwelleth therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many;
Numbers|13:19 And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it [be]
good or bad; and what cities [they be] that they dwell in, whether in
tents, or in strong holds;
Numbers|13:20 And what the land [is], whether it [be] fat or lean,
whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring
of the fruit of the land. Now the time [was] the time of the firstripe
grapes.
Numbers|13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness
of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Numbers|13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron;
where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now
Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Numbers|13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from
thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two
upon a staff; and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers|13:24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the
cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Numbers|13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty
days.
Numbers|13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all
the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran,
to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation,
and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers|13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither
thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this [is]
the fruit of it.
Numbers|13:28 Nevertheless the people [be] strong that dwell in the
land, and the cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and moreover we saw
the children of Anak there.
Numbers|13:29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the
Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and
the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Numbers|13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let
us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Numbers|13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to
go up against the people; for they [are] stronger than we.
Numbers|13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they
had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which
we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature.
Numbers|13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, [which
come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so
we were in their sight.
Numbers|14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
and the people wept that night.
Numbers|14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we
had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers|14:3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to
fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were
it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers|14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and
let us return into Egypt.
Numbers|14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the
assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers|14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
[which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Numbers|14:7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of
Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, [is] an
exceeding good land.
Numbers|14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Numbers|14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the
people of the land; for they [are] bread for us: their defence is departed
from them, and the LORD [is] with us: fear them not.
Numbers|14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And
the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before
all the children of Israel.
Numbers|14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people
provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs
which I have showed among them?
Numbers|14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit
them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Numbers|14:13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall
hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among
them;)
Numbers|14:14 And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land:
[for] they have heard that thou LORD [art] among this people, that thou
LORD art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and
[that] thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a
pillar of fire by night.
Numbers|14:15 Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man,
then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Numbers|14:16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into
the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the
wilderness.
Numbers|14:17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be
great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
Numbers|14:18 The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving
iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
[generation].
Numbers|14:19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people
according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this
people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers|14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Numbers|14:21 But [as] truly [as] I live, all the earth shall be filled
with the glory of the LORD.
Numbers|14:22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my
miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me
now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Numbers|14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto
their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Numbers|14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with
him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto
he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers|14:25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the
valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of
the Red sea.
Numbers|14:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers|14:27 How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation, which
murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel,
which they murmur against me.
Numbers|14:28 Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye
have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Numbers|14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that
were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old
and upward, which have murmured against me,
Numbers|14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, [concerning]
which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers|14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
Numbers|14:32 But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness.
Numbers|14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty
years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
Numbers|14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the
land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Numbers|14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this
evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers|14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing
up a slander upon the land,
Numbers|14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Numbers|14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
[which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].
Numbers|14:39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of
Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Numbers|14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up
into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we [be here], and will go up unto
the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
Numbers|14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the
commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Numbers|14:42 Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that ye be not
smitten before your enemies.
Numbers|14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before
you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the
LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Numbers|14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the
camp.
Numbers|14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which
dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto
Hormah.
Numbers|15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Numbers|15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or
in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd,
or of the flock:
Numbers|15:4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD
bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
[part] of an hin of oil.
Numbers|15:5 And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a drink
offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one
lamb.
Numbers|15:6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare [for] a meat offering two
tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an hin of oil.
Numbers|15:7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third [part]
of an hin of wine, [for] a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers|15:8 And when thou preparest a bullock [for] a burnt offering,
or [for] a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the LORD:
Numbers|15:9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three
tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
Numbers|15:10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of
wine, [for] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers|15:11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or
for a lamb, or a kid.
Numbers|15:12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye
do to every one according to their number.
Numbers|15:13 All that are born of the country shall do these things
after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the LORD.
Numbers|15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever [be]
among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
Numbers|15:15 One ordinance [shall be both] for you of the congregation,
and also for the stranger that sojourneth [with you], an ordinance for ever
in your generations: as ye [are], so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers|15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the
stranger that sojourneth with you.
Numbers|15:17 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|15:18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Numbers|15:19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the
land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Numbers|15:20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for]
an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so
shall ye heave it.
Numbers|15:21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an
heave offering in your generations.
Numbers|15:22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these
commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
Numbers|15:23 [Even] all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of
Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded [Moses], and henceforward among
your generations;
Numbers|15:24 Then it shall be, if [ought] be committed by ignorance
without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall
offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the
LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the
manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
Numbers|15:25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for
it [is] ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by
fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their
ignorance:
Numbers|15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the
children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all
the people [were] in ignorance.
Numbers|15:27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring
a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
Numbers|15:28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that
sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make
an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
Numbers|15:29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through
ignorance, [both for] him that is born among the children of Israel, and
for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Numbers|15:30 But the soul that doeth [ought] presumptuously, [whether
he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and
that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers|15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath
broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity
[shall be] upon him.
Numbers|15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers|15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto
Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
Numbers|15:34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what
should be done to him.
Numbers|15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put
to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the
camp.
Numbers|15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and
stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|15:37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they
make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their
generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of
blue:
Numbers|15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look
upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and
that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use
to go a whoring:
Numbers|15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be
holy unto your God.
Numbers|15:41 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt, to be your God: I [am] the LORD your God.
Numbers|16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth,
sons of Reuben, took [men]:
Numbers|16:2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children
of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the
congregation, men of renown:
Numbers|16:3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said unto them, [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all
the congregation [are] holy, every one of them, and the LORD [is] among
them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the
LORD?
Numbers|16:4 And when Moses heard [it], he fell upon his face:
Numbers|16:5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying,
Even to morrow the LORD will show who [are] his, and [who is] holy; and
will cause [him] to come near unto him: even [him] whom he hath chosen will
he cause to come near unto him.
Numbers|16:6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
Numbers|16:7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the
LORD to morrow: and it shall be [that] the man whom the LORD doth choose,
he [shall be] holy: [ye take] too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
Numbers|16:8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of
Levi:
Numbers|16:9 [Seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God of
Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you
near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to
stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
Numbers|16:10 And he hath brought thee near [to him], and all thy
brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
Numbers|16:11 For which cause [both] thou and all thy company [are]
gathered together against the LORD: and what [is] Aaron, that ye murmur
against him?
Numbers|16:12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
Numbers|16:13 [Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of
a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness,
except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Numbers|16:14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth
with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt
thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
Numbers|16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect
not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I
hurt one of them.
Numbers|16:16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company
before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:
Numbers|16:17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them,
and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty
censers; thou also, and Aaron, each [of you] his censer.
Numbers|16:18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them,
and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation with Moses and Aaron.
Numbers|16:19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD
appeared unto all the congregation.
Numbers|16:20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers|16:21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I
may consume them in a moment.
Numbers|16:22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God
of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with
all the congregation?
Numbers|16:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|16:24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about
the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
Numbers|16:25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the
elders of Israel followed him.
Numbers|16:26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray
you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest
ye be consumed in all their sins.
Numbers|16:27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the
door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little
children.
Numbers|16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath
sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own
mind.
Numbers|16:29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they
be visited after the visitation of all men; [then] the LORD hath not sent
me.
Numbers|16:30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her
mouth, and swallow them up, with all that [appertain] unto them, and they
go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have
provoked the LORD.
Numbers|16:31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all
these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them:
Numbers|16:32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all
[their] goods.
Numbers|16:33 They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive
into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among
the congregation.
Numbers|16:34 And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the
cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].
Numbers|16:35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the
two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Numbers|16:36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|16:37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he
take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder;
for they are hallowed.
Numbers|16:38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let
them make them broad plates [for] a covering of the altar: for they offered
them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign
unto the children of Israel.
Numbers|16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherewith
they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad [plates for] a
covering of the altar:
Numbers|16:40 [To be] a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no
stranger, which [is] not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense
before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD
said to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers|16:41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of
Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the
people of the LORD.
Numbers|16:42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered
against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of
the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the
LORD appeared.
Numbers|16:43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Numbers|16:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may
consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Numbers|16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire
therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the
congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out
from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers|16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst
of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people:
and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
Numbers|16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the
plague was stayed.
Numbers|16:49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand
and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers|16:50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
Numbers|17:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|17:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of
them a rod according to the house of [their] fathers, of all their princes
according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's
name upon his rod.
Numbers|17:3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for
one rod [shall be] for the head of the house of their fathers.
Numbers|17:4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the
congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Numbers|17:5 And it shall come to pass, [that] the man's rod, whom I
shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the
murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
Numbers|17:6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one
of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to
their fathers' houses, [even] twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron [was] among
their rods.
Numbers|17:7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the
tabernacle of witness.
Numbers|17:8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the
tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi
was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded
almonds.
Numbers|17:9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD
unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his
rod.
Numbers|17:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again
before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou
shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
Numbers|17:11 And Moses did [so]: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
Numbers|17:12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying,
Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
Numbers|17:13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the
LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? 18:1 And the LORD said
unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear
the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear
the iniquity of your priesthood.
Numbers|18:2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of
thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and
minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee [shall minister] before
the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers|18:3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and
the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
Numbers|18:4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of
the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle:
and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
Numbers|18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the
charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of
Israel.
Numbers|18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from
among the children of Israel: to you [they are] given [as] a gift for the
LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers|18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your
priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the veil; and ye
shall serve: I have given your priest's office [unto you] as a service of
gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers|18:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given
thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the
children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing,
and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
Numbers|18:9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, [reserved]
from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs and
every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which
shall render unto me, [shall be] most holy for thee and for thy sons.
Numbers|18:10 In the most holy [place] shalt thou eat it; every male
shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
Numbers|18:11 And this [is] thine; the heave offering of their gift,
with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them
unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for
ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
Numbers|18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and
of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD,
them have I given thee.
Numbers|18:13 [And] whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they
shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine
house shall eat [of] it.
Numbers|18:14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be thine.
Numbers|18:15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which
they bring unto the LORD, [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall be thine:
nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the
firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
Numbers|18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt
thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs.
Numbers|18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep,
or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they [are] holy: thou
shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat [for]
an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers|18:18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast
and as the right shoulder are thine.
Numbers|18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the
children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and
thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it [is] a covenant of salt
for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Numbers|18:20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no
inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I
[am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers|18:21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the
tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve,
[even] the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers|18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh
the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
Numbers|18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: [it shall be] a
statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of
Israel they have no inheritance.
Numbers|18:24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer
[as] an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to
inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they
shall have no inheritance.
Numbers|18:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|18:26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye
take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them
for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for
the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of the tithe.
Numbers|18:27 And [this] your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you,
as though [it were] the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of
the winepress.
Numbers|18:28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD
of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye
shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
Numbers|18:29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering
of the LORD, of all the best thereof, [even] the hallowed part thereof out
of it.
Numbers|18:30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved
the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the
increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
Numbers|18:31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your
households: for it [is] your reward for your service in the tabernacle of
the congregation.
Numbers|18:32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have
heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of
the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Numbers|19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers|19:2 This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee
a red heifer without spot, wherein [is] no blemish, [and] upon which never
came yoke:
Numbers|19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may
bring her forth without the camp, and [one] shall slay her before his face:
Numbers|19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his
finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the
congregation seven times:
Numbers|19:5 And [one] shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and
her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
Numbers|19:6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and
scarlet, and cast [it] into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers|19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe
his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the
priest shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers|19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water,
and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers|19:9 And a man [that is] clean shall gather up the ashes of the
heifer, and lay [them] up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall
be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of
separation: it [is] a purification for sin.
Numbers|19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a
statute for ever.
Numbers|19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days.
Numbers|19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on
the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third
day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
Numbers|19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead,
and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that
soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not
sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness [is] yet upon him.
Numbers|19:14 This [is] the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that
come into the tent, and all that [is] in the tent, shall be unclean seven
days.
Numbers|19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon
it, [is] unclean.
Numbers|19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in
the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be
unclean seven days.
Numbers|19:17 And for an unclean [person] they shall take of the ashes
of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put
thereto in a vessel:
Numbers|19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the
water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon
the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one
slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Numbers|19:19 And the clean [person] shall sprinkle upon the unclean on
the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall
purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall
be clean at even.
Numbers|19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify
himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he
hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not
been sprinkled upon him; he [is] unclean.
Numbers|19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he
that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that
toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
Numbers|19:22 And whatsoever the unclean [person] toucheth shall be
unclean; and the soul that toucheth [it] shall be unclean until even.
Numbers|20:1 Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole
congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people
abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Numbers|20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they
gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
Numbers|20:3 And the people chided with Moses, and spake, saying, Would
God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers|20:4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD
into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers|20:5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to
bring us in unto this evil place? it [is] no place of seed, or of figs, or
of vines, or of pomegranates; neither [is] there any water to drink.
Numbers|20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon
their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
Numbers|20:7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou,
and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it
shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of
the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Numbers|20:9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he
commanded him.
Numbers|20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together
before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch
you water out of this rock?
Numbers|20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote
the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation
drank, and their beasts [also].
Numbers|20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye
believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have
given them.
Numbers|20:13 This [is] the water of Meribah, because the children of
Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Numbers|20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of
Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath
befallen us:
Numbers|20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in
Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
Numbers|20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and
sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we
[are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
Numbers|20:17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not
pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink
[of] the water of the wells: we will go by the king's [high] way, we will
not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy
borders.
Numbers|20:18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I
come out against thee with the sword.
Numbers|20:19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by
the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay
for it: I will only, without [doing] any thing [else], go through on my
feet.
Numbers|20:20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out
against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Numbers|20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his
border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Numbers|20:22 And the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
Numbers|20:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by
the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Numbers|20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not
enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because
ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
Numbers|20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto
mount Hor:
Numbers|20:26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar
his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [unto his people], and shall die
there.
Numbers|20:27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into
mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
Numbers|20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them
upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and
Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers|20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead,
they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] all the house of Israel.
Numbers|21:1 And [when] king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the
south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought
against Israel, and took [some] of them prisoners.
Numbers|21:2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou
wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy
their cities.
Numbers|21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and
delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their
cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
Numbers|21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red
sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much
discouraged because of the way.
Numbers|21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses,
Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for
[there is] no bread, neither [is there any] water; and our soul loatheth
this light bread.
Numbers|21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Numbers|21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have
sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto
the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the
people.
Numbers|21:8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent,
and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is
bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers|21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole,
and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld
the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers|21:10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in
Oboth.
Numbers|21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim,
in the wilderness which [is] before Moab, toward the sunrising.
Numbers|21:12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of
Zared.
Numbers|21:13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of
Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the
Amorites: for Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers|21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD,
What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
Numbers|21:15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the
dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
Numbers|21:16 And from thence [they went] to Beer: that [is] the well
whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will
give them water.
Numbers|21:17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye
unto it:
Numbers|21:18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people
digged it, by [the direction of] the lawgiver, with their staves. And from
the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:
Numbers|21:19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to
Bamoth:
Numbers|21:20 And from Bamoth [in] the valley that [is] in the country
of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers|21:21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, saying,
Numbers|21:22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the
fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the
well: [but] we will go along by the king's [high] way, until we be past thy
borders.
Numbers|21:23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his
border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against
Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against
Israel.
Numbers|21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and
possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon:
for the border of the children of Ammon [was] strong.
Numbers|21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all
the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
Numbers|21:26 For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his
land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
Numbers|21:27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into
Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Numbers|21:28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the
city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the lords of the high
places of Arnon.
Numbers|21:29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh:
he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto
Sihon king of the Amorites.
Numbers|21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon,
and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which [reacheth] unto Medeba.
Numbers|21:31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Numbers|21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the
villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.
Numbers|21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og
the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the
battle at Edrei.
Numbers|21:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have
delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou
shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt
at Heshbon.
Numbers|21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until
there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
Numbers|22:1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the
plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.
Numbers|22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to
the Amorites.
Numbers|22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they [were]
many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
Numbers|22:4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this
company lick up all [that are] round about us, as the ox licketh up the
grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor [was] king of the Moabites
at that time.
Numbers|22:5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to
Pethor, which [is] by the river of the land of the children of his people,
to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold,
they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
Numbers|22:6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for
they [are] too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, [that] we may
smite them, and [that] I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he
whom thou blessest [is] blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Numbers|22:7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed
with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam,
and spake unto him the words of Balak.
Numbers|22:8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will
bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of
Moab abode with Balaam.
Numbers|22:9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men [are] these
with thee?
Numbers|22:10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, hath sent unto me, [saying],
Numbers|22:11 Behold, [there is] a people come out of Egypt, which
covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I
shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
Numbers|22:12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them;
thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed.
Numbers|22:13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the
princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me
leave to go with you.
Numbers|22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak,
and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
Numbers|22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more
honourable than they.
Numbers|22:16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak
the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto
me:
Numbers|22:17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will
do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me
this people.
Numbers|22:18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak,
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go
beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Numbers|22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night,
that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
Numbers|22:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If
the men come to call thee, rise up, [and] go with them; but yet the word
which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Numbers|22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers|22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel
of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was
riding upon his ass, and his two servants [were] with him.
Numbers|22:23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way,
and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way,
and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the
way.
Numbers|22:24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the
vineyards, a wall [being] on this side, and a wall on that side.
Numbers|22:25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust
herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he
smote her again.
Numbers|22:26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a
narrow place, where [was] no way to turn either to the right hand or to the
left.
Numbers|22:27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down
under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a
staff.
Numbers|22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said
unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these
three times?
Numbers|22:29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me:
I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
Numbers|22:30 And the ass said unto Balaam, [Am] not I thine ass, upon
which thou hast ridden ever since [I was] thine unto this day? was I ever
wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
Numbers|22:31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the
angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and
he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
Numbers|22:32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast
thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand
thee, because [thy] way is perverse before me:
Numbers|22:33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times:
unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved
her alive.
Numbers|22:34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned;
for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if
it displease thee, I will get me back again.
Numbers|22:35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the
men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers|22:36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to
meet him unto a city of Moab, which [is] in the border of Arnon, which [is]
in the utmost coast.
Numbers|22:37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto
thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed
to promote thee to honour?
Numbers|22:38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have
I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my
mouth, that shall I speak.
Numbers|22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto
Kirjathhuzoth.
Numbers|22:40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and
to the princes that [were] with him.
Numbers|22:41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam,
and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see
the utmost [part] of the people.
Numbers|23:1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
Numbers|23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam
offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers|23:3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering,
and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever
he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
Numbers|23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared
seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers|23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return
unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers|23:6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt
sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Numbers|23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of
Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying],
Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Numbers|23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I
defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?
Numbers|23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills
I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned
among the nations.
Numbers|23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the
fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my
last end be like his!
Numbers|23:11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I
took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed [them]
altogether.
Numbers|23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak
that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
Numbers|23:13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto
another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the
utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from
thence.
Numbers|23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every]
altar.
Numbers|23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering,
while I meet [the LORD] yonder.
Numbers|23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
Numbers|23:17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt
offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What
hath the LORD spoken?
Numbers|23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and
hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Numbers|23:19 God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of
man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath
he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Numbers|23:20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: and he
hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers|23:21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen
perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a
king [is] among them.
Numbers|23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
strength of an unicorn.
Numbers|23:23 Surely [there is] no enchantment against Jacob, neither
[is there] any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall
be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Numbers|23:24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift
up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the
prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers|23:25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor
bless them at all.
Numbers|23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee,
saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
Numbers|23:27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will
bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou
mayest curse me them from thence.
Numbers|23:28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that
looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers|23:29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars,
and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Numbers|23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock
and a ram on [every] altar.
Numbers|24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless
Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he
set his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers|24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding
[in his tents] according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon
him.
Numbers|24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of
Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers|24:4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the
vision of the Almighty, falling [into a trance], but having his eyes open:
Numbers|24:5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O
Israel!
Numbers|24:6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the
river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, [and]
as cedar trees beside the waters.
Numbers|24:7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed
[shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his
kingdom shall be exalted.
Numbers|24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall
break their bones, and pierce [them] through with his arrows.
Numbers|24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who
shall stir him up? Blessed [is] he that blesseth thee, and cursed [is] he
that curseth thee.
Numbers|24:10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote
his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine
enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed [them] these three
times.
Numbers|24:11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote
thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
Numbers|24:12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy
messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
Numbers|24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,
I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do [either] good or bad
of mine own mind; [but] what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
Numbers|24:14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come [therefore,
and] I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the
latter days.
Numbers|24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of
Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers|24:16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the
knowledge of the most High, [which] saw the vision of the Almighty, falling
[into a trance], but having his eyes open:
Numbers|24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not
nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children
of Sheth.
Numbers|24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a
possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
Numbers|24:19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and
shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
Numbers|24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and
said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations; but his latter end [shall be]
that he perish for ever.
Numbers|24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and
said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
Numbers|24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur
shall carry thee away captive.
Numbers|24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live
when God doeth this!
Numbers|24:24 And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and
shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for
ever.
Numbers|24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place:
and Balak also went his way.
Numbers|25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit
whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers|25:2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their
gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers|25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of
the LORD was kindled against Israel.
Numbers|25:4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the
people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce
anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Numbers|25:5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one
his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
Numbers|25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought
unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the
sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who [were] weeping
[before] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers|25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, saw [it], he rose up from among the congregation, and took a
javelin in his hand;
Numbers|25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and
thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her
belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Numbers|25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
Numbers|25:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous
for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my
jealousy.
Numbers|25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of
peace:
Numbers|25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, [even] the
covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God,
and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Numbers|25:14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, [even] that
was slain with the Midianitish woman, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, a
prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
Numbers|25:15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain [was]
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he [was] head over a people, [and] of a chief
house in Midian.
Numbers|25:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|25:17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
Numbers|25:18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have
beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the
daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of
the plague for Peor's sake.
Numbers|26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake
unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Numbers|26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house,
all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Numbers|26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the
plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
Numbers|26:4 [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and
upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went
forth out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers|26:5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben;
Hanoch, [of whom cometh] the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family
of the Palluites:
Numbers|26:6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the
family of the Carmites.
Numbers|26:7 These [are] the families of the Reubenites: and they that
were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and
thirty.
Numbers|26:8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab.
Numbers|26:9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This
[is that] Dathan and Abiram, [which were] famous in the congregation, who
strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they
strove against the LORD:
Numbers|26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up
together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured
two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
Numbers|26:11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
Numbers|26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the
family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin,
the family of the Jachinites:
Numbers|26:13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family
of the Shaulites.
Numbers|26:14 These [are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two
thousand and two hundred.
Numbers|26:15 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the
family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni,
the family of the Shunites:
Numbers|26:16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of
the Erites:
Numbers|26:17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family
of the Arelites.
Numbers|26:18 These [are] the families of the children of Gad according
to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|26:19 The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died
in the land of Canaan.
Numbers|26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of
Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the
Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
Numbers|26:21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the
Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
Numbers|26:22 These [are] the families of Judah according to those that
were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|26:23 [Of] the sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola,
the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
Numbers|26:24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the
family of the Shimronites.
Numbers|26:25 These [are] the families of Issachar according to those
that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Numbers|26:26 [Of] the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered,
the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of
Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
Numbers|26:27 These [are] the families of the Zebulunites according to
those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
Numbers|26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families [were] Manasseh
and Ephraim.
Numbers|26:29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the
Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead [come] the family of the
Gileadites.
Numbers|26:30 These [are] the sons of Gilead: [of] Jeezer, the family of
the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
Numbers|26:31 And [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and [of]
Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
Numbers|26:32 And [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and [of]
Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Numbers|26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but
daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad [were] Mahlah, and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers|26:34 These [are] the families of Manasseh, and those that were
numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers|26:35 These [are] the sons of Ephraim after their families: of
Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the
Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Numbers|26:36 And these [are] the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family
of the Eranites.
Numbers|26:37 These [are] the families of the sons of Ephraim according
to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five
hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph after their families.
Numbers|26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the
family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram,
the family of the Ahiramites:
Numbers|26:39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the
family of the Huphamites.
Numbers|26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the
family of the Ardites: [and] of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
Numbers|26:41 These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and
they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six
hundred.
Numbers|26:42 These [are] the sons of Dan after their families: of
Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These [are] the families of Dan after
their families.
Numbers|26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those
that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and four thousand and four
hundred.
Numbers|26:44 [Of] the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna,
the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of
Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Numbers|26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the
Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
Numbers|26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher [was] Sarah.
Numbers|26:47 These [are] the families of the sons of Asher according to
those that were numbered of them; [who were] fifty and three thousand and
four hundred.
Numbers|26:48 [Of] the sons of Naphtali after their families: of
Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
Numbers|26:49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the
family of the Shillemites.
Numbers|26:50 These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their
families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five
thousand and four hundred.
Numbers|26:51 These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six
hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Numbers|26:52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|26:53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance
according to the number of names.
Numbers|26:54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few
thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be
given according to those that were numbered of him.
Numbers|26:55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot:
according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Numbers|26:56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be
divided between many and few.
Numbers|26:57 And these [are] they that were numbered of the Levites
after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath,
the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Numbers|26:58 These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the
Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the
family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat
Amram.
Numbers|26:59 And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter
of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram
Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Numbers|26:60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.
Numbers|26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire
before the LORD.
Numbers|26:62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three
thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered
among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them
among the children of Israel.
Numbers|26:63 These [are] they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar
the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
Jordan [near] Jericho.
Numbers|26:64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and
Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the
wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers|26:65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in
the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers|27:1 Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher,
the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families
of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these [are] the names of his daughters;
Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers|27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest,
and before the princes and all the congregation, [by] the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Numbers|27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the
company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the
company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Numbers|27:4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among
his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us [therefore] a possession
among the brethren of our father.
Numbers|27:5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
Numbers|27:6 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|27:7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely
give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and
thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
Numbers|27:8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass
unto his daughter.
Numbers|27:9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his brethren.
Numbers|27:10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his father's brethren.
Numbers|27:11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he
shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of
judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|27:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount
Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
Numbers|27:13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered
unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
Numbers|27:14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of
Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before
their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of
Zin.
Numbers|27:15 And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,
Numbers|27:16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a
man over the congregation,
Numbers|27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before
them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the
congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
Numbers|27:18 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of
Nun, a man in whom [is] the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
Numbers|27:19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers|27:20 And thou shalt put [some] of thine honour upon him, that
all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
Numbers|27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall
ask [counsel] for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his
word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, [both] he, and
all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
Numbers|27:22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took
Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation:
Numbers|27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as
the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Numbers|28:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My
offering, [and] my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, [for] a sweet
savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Numbers|28:3 And thou shalt say unto them, This [is] the offering made
by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year
without spot day by day, [for] a continual burnt offering.
Numbers|28:4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other
lamb shalt thou offer at even;
Numbers|28:5 And a tenth [part] of an ephah of flour for a meat
offering, mingled with the fourth [part] of an hin of beaten oil.
Numbers|28:6 [It is] a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in
mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers|28:7 And the drink offering thereof [shall be] the fourth [part]
of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy [place] shalt thou cause the strong
wine to be poured unto the LORD [for] a drink offering.
Numbers|28:8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat
offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt
offer [it], a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers|28:9 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without
spot, and two tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil,
and the drink offering thereof:
Numbers|28:10 [This is] the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the
continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a
burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs
of the first year without spot;
Numbers|28:12 And three tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering,
mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour [for] a
meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
Numbers|28:13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil [for] a
meat offering unto one lamb; [for] a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a
sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers|28:14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine
unto a bullock, and the third [part] of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth
[part] of an hin unto a lamb: this [is] the burnt offering of every month
throughout the months of the year.
Numbers|28:15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD
shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink
offering.
Numbers|28:16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the
passover of the LORD.
Numbers|28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month [is] the feast:
seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Numbers|28:18 In the first day [shall be] an holy convocation; ye shall
do no manner of servile work [therein]:
Numbers|28:19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire [for] a burnt
offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of
the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
Numbers|28:20 And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with
oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals
for a ram;
Numbers|28:21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb,
throughout the seven lambs:
Numbers|28:22 And one goat [for] a sin offering, to make an atonement
for you.
Numbers|28:23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the
morning, which [is] for a continual burnt offering.
Numbers|28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the
seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his
drink offering.
Numbers|28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation;
ye shall do no servile work.
Numbers|28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new
meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out], ye shall have an
holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
Numbers|28:27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour
unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;
Numbers|28:28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three
tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
Numbers|28:29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven
lambs;
Numbers|28:30 [And] one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
Numbers|28:31 Ye shall offer [them] beside the continual burnt offering,
and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their
drink offerings.
Numbers|29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month,
ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day
of blowing the trumpets unto you.
Numbers|29:2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto
the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of the first year
without blemish:
Numbers|29:3 And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with
oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, [and] two tenth deals for a ram,
Numbers|29:4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven
lambs:
Numbers|29:5 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, to make an
atonement for you:
Numbers|29:6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat
offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their
drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a
sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers|29:7 And ye shall have on the tenth [day] of this seventh month
an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any
work [therein]:
Numbers|29:8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD [for] a
sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, [and] seven lambs of the first
year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
Numbers|29:9 And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with
oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, [and] two tenth deals to one ram,
Numbers|29:10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven
lambs:
Numbers|29:11 One kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the sin
offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat
offering of it, and their drink offerings.
Numbers|29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall
have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a
feast unto the LORD seven days:
Numbers|29:13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams,
[and] fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
Numbers|29:14 And their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with
oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two
tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
Numbers|29:15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen
lambs:
Numbers|29:16 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:17 And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve young
bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers|29:18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:19 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink
offerings.
Numbers|29:20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish;
Numbers|29:21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:22 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers|29:24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:25 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers|29:27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:28 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers|29:30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:31 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers|29:33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:34 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye
shall do no servile work [therein]:
Numbers|29:36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of
the first year without blemish:
Numbers|29:37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their
number, after the manner:
Numbers|29:38 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers|29:39 These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set
feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt
offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and
for your peace offerings.
Numbers|29:40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|30:1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the
children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath
commanded.
Numbers|30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind
his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to
all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Numbers|30:3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself
by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her youth;
Numbers|30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she
hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all
her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul
shall stand.
Numbers|30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth;
not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul,
shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed
her.
Numbers|30:6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or
uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
Numbers|30:7 And her husband heard [it,] and held his peace at her in
the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds
wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers|30:8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard
[it]; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she
uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and
the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers|30:9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced,
wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
Numbers|30:10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul
by a bond with an oath;
Numbers|30:11 And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her,
[and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond
wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers|30:12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day
he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her
vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath
made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers|30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her
husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Numbers|30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from
day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which
[are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the
day that he heard [them].
Numbers|30:15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath
heard [them]; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers|30:16 These [are] the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses,
between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, [being
yet] in her youth in her father's house.
Numbers|31:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward
shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Numbers|31:3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of
yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge
the LORD of Midian.
Numbers|31:4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, shall ye send to the war.
Numbers|31:5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers|31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every]
tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with
the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
Numbers|31:7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD
commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Numbers|31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them
that were slain; [namely], Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five
kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Numbers|31:9 And the children of Israel took [all] the women of Midian
captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle,
and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Numbers|31:10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and
all their goodly castles, with fire.
Numbers|31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of
men and of beasts.
Numbers|31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the
spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the
children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which [are] by
Jordan [near] Jericho.
Numbers|31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of
the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Numbers|31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with]
the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from
the battle.
Numbers|31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women
alive?
Numbers|31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of
Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Numbers|31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and
kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers|31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by
lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers|31:19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever
hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify [both]
yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
Numbers|31:20 And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of
skins, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood.
Numbers|31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went
to the battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded
Moses;
Numbers|31:22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the
tin, and the lead,
Numbers|31:23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go
through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified
with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall
make go through the water.
Numbers|31:24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye
shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Numbers|31:25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and
of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the
congregation:
Numbers|31:27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took
the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the
congregation:
Numbers|31:28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which
went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of
the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
Numbers|31:29 Take [it] of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the
priest, [for] an heave offering of the LORD.
Numbers|31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one
portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the
flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep
the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Numbers|31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
Numbers|31:32 And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the men
of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five
thousand sheep.
Numbers|31:33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Numbers|31:34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
Numbers|31:35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that
had not known man by lying with him.
Numbers|31:36 And the half, [which was] the portion of them that went
out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty
thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers|31:37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
threescore and fifteen.
Numbers|31:38 And the beeves [were] thirty and six thousand; of which
the LORD'S tribute [was] threescore and twelve.
Numbers|31:39 And the asses [were] thirty thousand and five hundred; of
which the LORD'S tribute [was] threescore and one.
Numbers|31:40 And the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the
LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.
Numbers|31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S heave
offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers|31:42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided
from the men that warred,
Numbers|31:43 (Now the half [that pertained unto] the congregation was
three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five
hundred sheep,
Numbers|31:44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
Numbers|31:45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
Numbers|31:46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
Numbers|31:47 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one
portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave them unto the
Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
Numbers|31:48 And the officers which [were] over thousands of the host,
the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
Numbers|31:49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum
of the men of war which [are] under our charge, and there lacketh not one
man of us.
Numbers|31:50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what
every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings,
earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
Numbers|31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them,
[even] all wrought jewels.
Numbers|31:52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to
the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds,
was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
Numbers|31:53 ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for
himself.)
Numbers|31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle
of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the children of Israel before the
LORD.
Numbers|32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a
very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and
the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;
Numbers|32:2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and
spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the
congregation, saying,
Numbers|32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Numbers|32:4 [Even] the country which the LORD smote before the
congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and thy servants have
cattle:
Numbers|32:5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight,
let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, [and] bring us
not over Jordan.
Numbers|32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children
of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Numbers|32:7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of
Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
Numbers|32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea
to see the land.
Numbers|32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw
the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Numbers|32:10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he
sware, saying,
Numbers|32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from
twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Numbers|32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua
the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
Numbers|32:13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he
made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation,
that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Numbers|32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an
increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward
Israel.
Numbers|32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again
leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Numbers|32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
Numbers|32:17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones
shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Numbers|32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of
Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Numbers|32:19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan,
or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan
eastward.
Numbers|32:20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye
will go armed before the LORD to war,
Numbers|32:21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD,
until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
Numbers|32:22 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye
shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this
land shall be your possession before the LORD.
Numbers|32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against
the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Numbers|32:24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your
sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Numbers|32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake
unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
Numbers|32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
Numbers|32:27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war,
before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
Numbers|32:28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children
of Israel:
Numbers|32:29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to
battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye
shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Numbers|32:30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall
have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
Numbers|32:31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
Numbers|32:32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of
Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan [may be]
ours.
Numbers|32:33 And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the children of Gad,
and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son
of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og
king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the
cities of the country round about.
Numbers|32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and
Aroer,
Numbers|32:35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
Numbers|32:36 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds
for sheep.
Numbers|32:37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kirjathaim,
Numbers|32:38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and
Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
Numbers|32:39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to
Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which [was] in it.
Numbers|32:40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and
he dwelt therein.
Numbers|32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns
thereof, and called them Havothjair.
Numbers|32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof,
and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers|33:1 These [are] the journeys of the children of Israel, which
went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of
Moses and Aaron.
Numbers|33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their
journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these [are] their journeys
according to their goings out.
Numbers|33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the
children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the
Egyptians.
Numbers|33:4 For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the
LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed
judgments.
Numbers|33:5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and
pitched in Succoth.
Numbers|33:6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which
[is] in the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers|33:7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto
Pihahiroth, which [is] before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
Numbers|33:8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed
through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
Numbers|33:9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in
Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees;
and they pitched there.
Numbers|33:10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers|33:11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the
wilderness of Sin.
Numbers|33:12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin,
and encamped in Dophkah.
Numbers|33:13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Numbers|33:14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim,
where was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers|33:15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the
wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers|33:16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at
Kibrothhattaavah.
Numbers|33:17 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at
Hazeroth.
Numbers|33:18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Numbers|33:19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at
Rimmonparez.
Numbers|33:20 And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah.
Numbers|33:21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
Numbers|33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
Numbers|33:23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount
Shapher.
Numbers|33:24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in
Haradah.
Numbers|33:25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
Numbers|33:26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
Numbers|33:27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
Numbers|33:28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
Numbers|33:29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
Numbers|33:30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at
Moseroth.
Numbers|33:31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in
Benejaakan.
Numbers|33:32 And they removed from Benejaakan, and encamped at
Horhagidgad.
Numbers|33:33 And they went from Horhagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
Numbers|33:34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
Numbers|33:35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at
Eziongaber.
Numbers|33:36 And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the
wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh.
Numbers|33:37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in
the edge of the land of Edom.
Numbers|33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the
commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first [day]
of the fifth month.
Numbers|33:39 And Aaron [was] an hundred and twenty and three years old
when he died in mount Hor.
Numbers|33:40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in
the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Numbers|33:41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
Numbers|33:42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
Numbers|33:43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers|33:44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ijeabarim, in
the border of Moab.
Numbers|33:45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibongad.
Numbers|33:46 And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in
Almondiblathaim.
Numbers|33:47 And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Numbers|33:48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and
pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
Numbers|33:49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth [even] unto
Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
Numbers|33:50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by
Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
Numbers|33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers|33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land
from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their
molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Numbers|33:53 And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land, and
dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Numbers|33:54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance
among your families: [and] to the more ye shall give the more inheritance,
and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's
[inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the
tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
Numbers|33:55 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.
Numbers|33:56 Moreover it shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto
you, as I thought to do unto them.
Numbers|34:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|34:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
come into the land of Canaan; (this [is] the land that shall fall unto you
for an inheritance, [even] the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
Numbers|34:3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin
along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost
coast of the salt sea eastward:
Numbers|34:4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the
south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
Numbers|34:5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the
river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
Numbers|34:6 And [as for] the western border, ye shall even have the
great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
Numbers|34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye
shall point out for you mount Hor:
Numbers|34:8 From mount Hor ye shall point out [your border] unto the
entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
Numbers|34:9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out
of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
Numbers|34:10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to
Shepham:
Numbers|34:11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the
east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the
side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
Numbers|34:12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out
of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts
thereof round about.
Numbers|34:13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This
[is] the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to
give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
Numbers|34:14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the
house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to
the house of their fathers, have received [their inheritance]; and half the
tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
Numbers|34:15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their
inheritance on this side Jordan [near] Jericho eastward, toward the
sunrising.
Numbers|34:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers|34:17 These [are] the names of the men which shall divide the
land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers|34:18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the
land by inheritance.
Numbers|34:19 And the names of the men [are] these: Of the tribe of
Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Numbers|34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the
son of Ammihud.
Numbers|34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Numbers|34:22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki
the son of Jogli.
Numbers|34:23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the
children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers|34:24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim,
Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Numbers|34:25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
Numbers|34:26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar,
Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Numbers|34:27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher,
Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
Numbers|34:28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali,
Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
Numbers|34:29 These [are they] whom the LORD commanded to divide the
inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Numbers|36:1 And the chief fathers of the families of the children of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons
of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the
chief fathers of the children of Israel:
Numbers|36:2 And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land
for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was
commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
unto his daughters.
Numbers|36:3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the [other]
tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken
from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of
the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of
our inheritance.
Numbers|36:4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be,
then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe
whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from
the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers|36:5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the
word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
Numbers|36:6 This [is] the thing which the LORD doth command concerning
the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think
best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
Numbers|36:7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel
remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall
keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers|36:8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any
tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of
the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man
the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers|36:9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from [one] tribe to
another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall
keep himself to his own inheritance.
Numbers|36:10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad:
Numbers|36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:
Numbers|36:12 [And] they were married into the families of the sons of
Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of
the family of their father.
Numbers|36:13 These [are] the commandments and the judgments, which the
LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the
plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
Deuteronomy|1:1 These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all Israel
on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red
[sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy|1:2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the
way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
Deuteronomy|1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the
eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto
the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in
commandment unto them;
Deuteronomy|1:4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which
dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in
Edrei:
Deuteronomy|1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy|1:6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have
dwelt long enough in this mount:
Deuteronomy|1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of
the Amorites, and unto all [the places] nigh thereunto, in the plain, in
the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the
land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river
Euphrates.
Deuteronomy|1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and
possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Deuteronomy|1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able
to bear you myself alone:
Deuteronomy|1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye
[are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy|1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times
so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy|1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your
burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy|1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among
your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy|1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast
spoken [is] good [for us] to do.
Deuteronomy|1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and
known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains
over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
officers among your tribes.
Deuteronomy|1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear
[the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every]
man and his brother, and the stranger [that is] with him.
Deuteronomy|1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye
shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the
face of man; for the judgment [is] God's: and the cause that is too hard
for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy|1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which
ye should do.
Deuteronomy|1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all
that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain
of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to
Kadeshbarnea.
Deuteronomy|1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of
the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
Deuteronomy|1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee:
go up [and] possess [it], as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto
thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
Deuteronomy|1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We
will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring
us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall
come.
Deuteronomy|1:23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men
of you, one of a tribe:
Deuteronomy|1:24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came
unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
Deuteronomy|1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands,
and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, [It is]
a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
Deuteronomy|1:26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled
against the commandment of the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy|1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the
LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to
deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Deuteronomy|1:28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged
our heart, saying, The people [is] greater and taller than we; the cities
[are] great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of
the Anakims there.
Deuteronomy|1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of
them.
Deuteronomy|1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall
fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your
eyes;
Deuteronomy|1:31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that
the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that
ye went, until ye came into this place.
Deuteronomy|1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy|1:33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a
place to pitch your tents [in], in fire by night, to show you by what way
ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
Deuteronomy|1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was
wroth, and sware, saying,
Deuteronomy|1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil
generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Deuteronomy|1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and
to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,
because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Deuteronomy|1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying,
Thou also shalt not go in thither.
Deuteronomy|1:38 [But] Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before
thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it.
Deuteronomy|1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a
prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good
and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they
shall possess it.
Deuteronomy|1:40 But [as for] you, turn you, and take your journey into
the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Deuteronomy|1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned
against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD
our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of
war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Deuteronomy|1:42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up,
neither fight; for I [am] not among you; lest ye be smitten before your
enemies.
Deuteronomy|1:43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up
into the hill.
Deuteronomy|1:44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came
out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir,
[even] unto Hormah.
Deuteronomy|1:45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD
would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
Deuteronomy|1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the
days that ye abode [there].
Deuteronomy|2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness
by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed
mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy|2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy|2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you
northward.
Deuteronomy|2:4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass
through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in
Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore:
Deuteronomy|2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their
land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir
unto Esau [for] a possession.
Deuteronomy|2:6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat;
and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
Deuteronomy|2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works
of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these
forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked
nothing.
Deuteronomy|2:8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of
Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and
from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy|2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites,
neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land
[for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot [for]
a possession.
Deuteronomy|2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great,
and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Deuteronomy|2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but
the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy|2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the
children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before
them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his
possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Deuteronomy|2:13 Now rise up, [said I], and get you over the brook
Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
Deuteronomy|2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until
we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all
the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as
the LORD sware unto them.
Deuteronomy|2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to
destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy|2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the people,
Deuteronomy|2:17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy|2:18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab,
this day:
Deuteronomy|2:19 And [when] thou comest nigh over against the children
of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee
of the land of the children of Ammon [any] possession; because I have given
it unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.
Deuteronomy|2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt
therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
Deuteronomy|2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but
the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in
their stead:
Deuteronomy|2:22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir,
when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy|2:23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, [even] unto
Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and
dwelt in their stead.)
Deuteronomy|2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river
Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess [it], and contend with him in
battle.
Deuteronomy|2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the
fear of thee upon the nations [that are] under the whole heaven, who shall
hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Deuteronomy|2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth
unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy|2:27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the
high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy|2:28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and
give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my
feet;
Deuteronomy|2:29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the
Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan
into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
Deuteronomy|2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him:
for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate,
that he might deliver him into thy hand, as [appeareth] this day.
Deuteronomy|2:31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give
Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit
his land.
Deuteronomy|2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people,
to fight at Jahaz.
Deuteronomy|2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we
smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
Deuteronomy|2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we
left none to remain:
Deuteronomy|2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and
the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy|2:36 From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of
Arnon, and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even unto Gilead, there
was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
Deuteronomy|2:37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest
not, [nor] unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the
mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
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
Edrei.
Deuteronomy|3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will
deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou
shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which
dwelt at Heshbon.
Deuteronomy|3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also,
the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was
left to him remaining.
Deuteronomy|3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a
city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of
Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy|3:5 All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates,
and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Deuteronomy|3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king
of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
Deuteronomy|3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took
for a prey to ourselves.
Deuteronomy|3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two
kings of the Amorites the land that [was] on this side Jordan, from the
river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
Deuteronomy|3:9 ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the
Amorites call it Shenir;)
Deuteronomy|3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy|3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of
giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in
Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and
four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy|3:12 And this land, [which] we possessed at that time, from
Aroer, which [is] by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities
thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Deuteronomy|3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, [being] the
kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
Deuteronomy|3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob
unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own
name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
Deuteronomy|3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
Deuteronomy|3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave
from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even
unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;
Deuteronomy|3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [thereof],
from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, under
Ashdothpisgah eastward.
Deuteronomy|3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your
God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before
your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are] meet for the war.
Deuteronomy|3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle,
([for] I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I
have given you;
Deuteronomy|3:20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as
well as unto you, and [until] they also possess the land which the LORD
your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and [then] shall ye return every
man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Deuteronomy|3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes
have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so
shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
Deuteronomy|3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall
fight for you.
Deuteronomy|3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
Deuteronomy|3:24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy
greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in heaven or in
earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
Deuteronomy|3:25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that
[is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy|3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and
would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no
more unto me of this matter.
Deuteronomy|3:27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine
eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it]
with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy|3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen
him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to
inherit the land which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy|3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
Deuteronomy|4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and
unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them], that ye may live,
and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth
you.
Deuteronomy|4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy|4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of
Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath
destroyed them from among you.
Deuteronomy|4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God [are]
alive every one of you this day.
Deuteronomy|4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even
as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither
ye go to possess it.
Deuteronomy|4:6 Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom
and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all
these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and
understanding people.
Deuteronomy|4:7 For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so]
nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon
him [for]?
Deuteronomy|4:8 And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes
and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this
day?
Deuteronomy|4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they
depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
and thy sons' sons;
Deuteronomy|4:10 [Specially] the day that thou stoodest before the LORD
thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people
together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear
me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and [that] they may
teach their children.
Deuteronomy|4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds,
and thick darkness.
Deuteronomy|4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the
fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only [ye
heard] a voice.
Deuteronomy|4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he
commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon
two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy|4:14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you
statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go
over to possess it.
Deuteronomy|4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw
no manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb
out of the midst of the fire:
Deuteronomy|4:16 Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven
image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy|4:17 The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the
likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Deuteronomy|4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy|4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when
thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of
heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy|4:20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out
of the iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
inheritance, as [ye are] this day.
Deuteronomy|4:21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes,
and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in
unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an
inheritance:
Deuteronomy|4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan:
but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deuteronomy|4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant
of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image,
[or] the likeness of any [thing], which the LORD thy God hath forbidden
thee.
Deuteronomy|4:24 For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a
jealous God.
Deuteronomy|4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's
children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt
[yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing],
and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to
anger:
Deuteronomy|4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this
day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go
over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but
shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy|4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and
ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall
lead you.
Deuteronomy|4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands,
wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deuteronomy|4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God,
thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy
soul.
Deuteronomy|4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are
come upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy
God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Deuteronomy|4:31 (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not
forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers
which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy|4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were
before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and [ask]
from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been [any
such thing] as this great thing [is], or hath been heard like it?
Deuteronomy|4:33 Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Deuteronomy|4:34 Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from
the midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders,
and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great
terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt
before your eyes?
Deuteronomy|4:35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that
the LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.
Deuteronomy|4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he
might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou
heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy|4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose
their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty
power out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy|4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and
mightier than thou [art], to bring thee in, to give thee their land [for]
an inheritance, as [it is] this day.
Deuteronomy|4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thine
heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth
beneath: [there is] none else.
Deuteronomy|4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his
commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee,
and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days
upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Deuteronomy|4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan
toward the sun rising;
Deuteronomy|4:42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill
his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing
unto one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy|4:43 [Namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan
in Bashan, of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy|4:44 And this [is] the law which Moses set before the
children of Israel:
Deuteronomy|4:45 These [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came
forth out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy|4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against
Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon,
whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out
of Egypt:
Deuteronomy|4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which [were] on this side Jordan toward
the sun rising;
Deuteronomy|4:48 From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon,
even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon,
Deuteronomy|4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even
unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy|5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O
Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day,
that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
Deuteronomy|5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy|5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but
with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day.
Deuteronomy|5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out
of the midst of the fire,
Deuteronomy|5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show
you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and
went not up into the mount;) saying,
Deuteronomy|5:6 I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy|5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
Deuteronomy|5:8 Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven image, [or] any
likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the
earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy|5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of
them that hate me,
Deuteronomy|5:10 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me
and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy|5:11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in
vain: for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name in
vain.
Deuteronomy|5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy
God hath commanded thee.
Deuteronomy|5:13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deuteronomy|5:14 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy
God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine
ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates;
that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy|5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of
Egypt, and [that] the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty
hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee
to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy|5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God
hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go
well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy|5:17 Thou shalt not kill.
Deuteronomy|5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Deuteronomy|5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.
Deuteronomy|5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy
neighbour.
Deuteronomy|5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither
shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or
his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy
neighbour's.
Deuteronomy|5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in
the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in
two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Deuteronomy|5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the
midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came
near unto me, [even] all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy|5:24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath showed us
his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst
of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he
liveth.
Deuteronomy|5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire
will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we
shall die.
Deuteronomy|5:26 For who [is there of] all flesh, that hath heard the
voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we
[have], and lived?
Deuteronomy|5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall
say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto
thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it].
Deuteronomy|5:28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye
spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the
words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said
all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy|5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they
would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well
with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy|5:30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Deuteronomy|5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will
speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,
which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I
give them to possess it.
Deuteronomy|5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God
hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the
left.
Deuteronomy|5:33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God
hath commanded you, that ye may live, and [that it may be] well with you,
and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess.
Deuteronomy|6:1 Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do
[them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Deuteronomy|6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all
his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son,
and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
prolonged.
Deuteronomy|6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that
it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD
God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk
and honey.
Deuteronomy|6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
Deuteronomy|6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy|6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be
in thine heart:
Deuteronomy|6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy|6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
Deuteronomy|6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house,
and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy|6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have
brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou
buildedst not,
Deuteronomy|6:11 And houses full of all good [things], which thou
filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and
olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be
full;
Deuteronomy|6:12 [Then] beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought
thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy|6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and
shalt swear by his name.
Deuteronomy|6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the
people which [are] round about you;
Deuteronomy|6:15 (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.
Deuteronomy|6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted
[him] in Massah.
Deuteronomy|6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD
your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded
thee.
Deuteronomy|6:18 And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the
sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go
in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Deuteronomy|6:19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the
LORD hath spoken.
Deuteronomy|6:20 [And] when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying,
What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the
LORD our God hath commanded you?
Deuteronomy|6:21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's
bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
Deuteronomy|6:22 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore,
upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
Deuteronomy|6:23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring
us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
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 [it is] at this day.
Deuteronomy|6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do
all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Deuteronomy|7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land
whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before
thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven
nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy|7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before
thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy|7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take
unto thy son.
Deuteronomy|7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that
they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against
you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Deuteronomy|7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their
altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn
their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy|7:6 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the
LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above
all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy|7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of
all people:
Deuteronomy|7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would
keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought
you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy|7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the
faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and
keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deuteronomy|7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to
destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay
him to his face.
Deuteronomy|7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Deuteronomy|7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto
thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
Deuteronomy|7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply
thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land,
thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give
thee.
Deuteronomy|7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not
be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Deuteronomy|7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and
will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee;
but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee.
Deuteronomy|7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD
thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither
shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.
Deuteronomy|7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are]
more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Deuteronomy|7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: [but] shalt well
remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
Deuteronomy|7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the
signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm,
whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do
unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy|7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among
them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be
destroyed.
Deuteronomy|7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy
God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deuteronomy|7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before
thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the
beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy|7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and
shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
Deuteronomy|7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and
thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able
to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy|7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with
fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take
[it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to
the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine
house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest
it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy|8:1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall
ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy|8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy
God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to
prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy|8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and
fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know;
that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by
every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy|8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy
foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy|8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man
chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy|8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy|8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a
land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys
and hills;
Deuteronomy|8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees,
and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy|8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness,
thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and
out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Deuteronomy|8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt
bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy|8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not
keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day:
Deuteronomy|8:12 Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, and hast
built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein];
Deuteronomy|8:13 And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy
silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Deuteronomy|8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD
thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house
of bondage;
Deuteronomy|8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible
wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought,
where [there was] no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of
flint;
Deuteronomy|8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy
fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee,
to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy|8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of
[mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Deuteronomy|8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is]
he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant
which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.
Deuteronomy|8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy
God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy|8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your
face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice
of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy|9:1 Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan this day,
to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great
and fenced up to heaven,
Deuteronomy|9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims,
whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who can stand
before the children of Anak!
Deuteronomy|9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God
[is] he which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall
destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou
drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
Deuteronomy|9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy
God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the
LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of
these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Deuteronomy|9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of
thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of
these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and
that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy|9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee
not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a
stiffnecked people.
Deuteronomy|9:7 Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD
thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out
of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been
rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy|9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the
LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy|9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables
of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you,
then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat
bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy|9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone
written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all
the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy|9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty
nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables
of the covenant.
Deuteronomy|9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly
from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have
corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which
I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Deuteronomy|9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen
this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:
Deuteronomy|9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out
their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and
greater than they.
Deuteronomy|9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount
burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant [were] in my two
hands.
Deuteronomy|9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the
LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside
quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
Deuteronomy|9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two
hands, and brake them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy|9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty
days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of
all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy|9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure,
wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD
hearkened unto me at that time also.
Deuteronomy|9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have
destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
Deuteronomy|9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and
burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even]
until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook
that descended out of the mount.
Deuteronomy|9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah,
ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
Deuteronomy|9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea,
saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled
against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor
hearkened to his voice.
Deuteronomy|9:24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day
that I knew you.
Deuteronomy|9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty
nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would
destroy you.
Deuteronomy|9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,
destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed
through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a
mighty hand.
Deuteronomy|9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look
not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to
their sin:
Deuteronomy|9:28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say,
Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised
them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in
the wilderness.
Deuteronomy|9:29 Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which
thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Deuteronomy|10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables
of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make
thee an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy|10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in
the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy|10:3 And I made an ark [of] shittim wood, and hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the
two tables in mine hand.
Deuteronomy|10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first
writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount
out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave
them unto me.
Deuteronomy|10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and
put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD
commanded me.
Deuteronomy|10:6 And the children of Israel took their journey from
Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he
was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
stead.
Deuteronomy|10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from
Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
Deuteronomy|10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to
bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to
minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
Deuteronomy|10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his
brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God
promised him.
Deuteronomy|10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first
time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy thee.
Deuteronomy|10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take [thy] journey
before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware
unto their fathers to give unto them.
Deuteronomy|10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of
thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love
him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul,
Deuteronomy|10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy|10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the
LORD'S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is].
Deuteronomy|10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love
them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as
[it is] this day.
Deuteronomy|10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and
be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy|10:17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of
lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons,
nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy|10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and
widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy|10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers
in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy|10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou
serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy|10:21 He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath
done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Deuteronomy|10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and
ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven
for multitude.
Deuteronomy|11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep
his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments,
alway.
Deuteronomy|11:2 And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your
children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of
the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out
arm,
Deuteronomy|11:3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the
midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
Deuteronomy|11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their
horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to
overflow them as they pursued after you, and [how] the LORD hath destroyed
them unto this day;
Deuteronomy|11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye
came into this place;
Deuteronomy|11:6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that
[was] in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
Deuteronomy|11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD
which he did.
Deuteronomy|11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I
command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the
land, whither ye go to possess it;
Deuteronomy|11:9 And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which
the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a
land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy|11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it,
[is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst
thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
Deuteronomy|11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land
of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
Deuteronomy|11:12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of
the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even
unto the end of the year.
Deuteronomy|11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken
diligently unto 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,
Deuteronomy|11:14 That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his
due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in
thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Deuteronomy|11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle,
that thou mayest eat and be full.
Deuteronomy|11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not
deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deuteronomy|11:17 And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you,
and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield
not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which
the LORD giveth you.
Deuteronomy|11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart
and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be
as frontlets between your eyes.
Deuteronomy|11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy|11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine
house, and upon thy gates:
Deuteronomy|11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them,
as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Deuteronomy|11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments
which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all
his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deuteronomy|11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from
before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than
yourselves.
Deuteronomy|11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread
shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Deuteronomy|11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for]
the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all
the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Deuteronomy|11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse;
Deuteronomy|11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD
your God, which I command you this day:
Deuteronomy|11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of
the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this
day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Deuteronomy|11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath
brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou
shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy|11:30 [Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way
where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the
champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Deuteronomy|11:31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the
land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein.
Deuteronomy|11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and
judgments which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy|12:1 These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall
observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to
possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
Deuteronomy|12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the
nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains,
and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Deuteronomy|12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their
pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven
images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deuteronomy|12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy|12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose
out of all your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto his habitation
shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Deuteronomy|12:6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and
your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and
your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds
and of your flocks:
Deuteronomy|12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye
shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households,
wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy|12:8 Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do here
this day, every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes.
Deuteronomy|12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
Deuteronomy|12:10 But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land
which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you
rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
Deuteronomy|12:11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God
shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all
that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes,
and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow
unto the LORD:
Deuteronomy|12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and
your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants,
and the Levite that [is] within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part
nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy|12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt
offerings in every place that thou seest:
Deuteronomy|12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of
thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou
shalt do all that I command thee.
Deuteronomy|12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all
thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of
the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may
eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Deuteronomy|12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon
the earth as water.
Deuteronomy|12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy
corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of
thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill
offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
Deuteronomy|12:18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is]
within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all
that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Deuteronomy|12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite
as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Deuteronomy|12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he
hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul
longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after.
Deuteronomy|12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put
his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and
of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and
thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy|12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou
shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.
Deuteronomy|12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the
blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy|12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the
earth as water.
Deuteronomy|12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee,
and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right
in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy|12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows,
thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose.
Deuteronomy|12:27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh
and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy
sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou
shalt eat the flesh.
Deuteronomy|12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee,
that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever,
when thou doest [that which is] good and right in the sight of the LORD thy
God.
Deuteronomy|12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from
before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them,
and dwellest in their land;
Deuteronomy|12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by
following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that
thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve
their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deuteronomy|12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods;
for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to
their gods.
Deuteronomy|12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it:
thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy|13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
Deuteronomy|13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he
spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not
known, and let us serve them;
Deuteronomy|13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet,
or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know
whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
Deuteronomy|13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him,
and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and
cleave unto him.
Deuteronomy|13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be
put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your
God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of
the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God
commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst
of thee.
Deuteronomy|13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or
thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine
own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deuteronomy|13:7 [Namely], of the gods of the people which [are] round
about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the [one] end of the
earth even unto the [other] end of the earth;
Deuteronomy|13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him;
neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt
thou conceal him:
Deuteronomy|13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be
first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people.
Deuteronomy|13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die;
because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy|13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no
more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Deuteronomy|13:12 If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which
the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
Deuteronomy|13:13 [Certain] men, the children of Belial, are gone out
from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying,
Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
Deuteronomy|13:14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask
diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that]
such abomination is wrought among you;
Deuteronomy|13:15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city
with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is]
therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Deuteronomy|13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the
midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the
spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for
ever; it shall not be built again.
Deuteronomy|13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to
thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and
show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he
hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy|13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy
God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do
[that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|14:1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall
not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deuteronomy|14:2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God,
and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above
all the nations that [are] upon the earth.
Deuteronomy|14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy|14:4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the
sheep, and the goat,
Deuteronomy|14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the
wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy|14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall
eat.
Deuteronomy|14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew
the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the
hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof;
[therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy|14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet
cheweth not the cud, it [is] unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their
flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
Deuteronomy|14:9 These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all
that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
Deuteronomy|14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not
eat; it [is] unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy|14:11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.
Deuteronomy|14:12 But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the
eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,
Deuteronomy|14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his
kind,
Deuteronomy|14:14 And every raven after his kind,
Deuteronomy|14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and
the hawk after his kind,
Deuteronomy|14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
Deuteronomy|14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant,
Deuteronomy|14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the
lapwing, and the bat.
Deuteronomy|14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto
you: they shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy|14:20 [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
Deuteronomy|14:21 Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself:
thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may
eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people
unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy|14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed,
that the field bringeth forth year by year.
Deuteronomy|14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the
place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn,
of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy
flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
Deuteronomy|14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art
not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, which the
LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee:
Deuteronomy|14:25 Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the
money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God
shall choose:
Deuteronomy|14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy
soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong
drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before
the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Deuteronomy|14:27 And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt
not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
Deuteronomy|14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all
the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy
gates:
Deuteronomy|14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor
inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, which [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine
hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy|15:1 At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a
release.
Deuteronomy|15:2 And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor
that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not
exact [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the
LORD'S release.
Deuteronomy|15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again]: but [that]
which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
Deuteronomy|15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the
LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee [for] an inheritance to possess it:
Deuteronomy|15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee
this day.
Deuteronomy|15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised
thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and
thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
Deuteronomy|15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren
within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor
brother:
Deuteronomy|15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt
surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
Deuteronomy|15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be
evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto
the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy|15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not
be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD
thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest
thine hand unto.
Deuteronomy|15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land:
therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Deuteronomy|15:12 [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew
woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh
year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Deuteronomy|15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou
shalt not let him go away empty:
Deuteronomy|15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and
out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy|15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command
thee this thing to day.
Deuteronomy|15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go
away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well
with thee;
Deuteronomy|15:17 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust [it] through
his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto
thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
Deuteronomy|15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest
him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to
thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in
all that thou doest.
Deuteronomy|15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of
thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy|15:20 Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD thy God year by
year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
Deuteronomy|15:21 And if there be [any] blemish therein, [as if it be]
lame, or blind, [or have] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto
the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and
the clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
Deuteronomy|15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt
pour it upon the ground as water.
Deuteronomy|16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto
the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy|16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the
LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall
choose to place his name there.
Deuteronomy|16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days
shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of affliction:
for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of thy life.
Deuteronomy|16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in
all thy coast seven days; neither shall there [any thing] of the flesh,
which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the
morning.
Deuteronomy|16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of
thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
Deuteronomy|16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to
place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the
going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy|16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which
the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go
unto thy tents.
Deuteronomy|16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the
seventh day [shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do
no work [therein].
Deuteronomy|16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to
number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the
sickle to the corn.
Deuteronomy|16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD
thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou
shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee:
Deuteronomy|16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and
the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the stranger, and the
fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among you, in the place which the
LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy|16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
Deuteronomy|16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven
days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Deuteronomy|16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] within
thy gates.
Deuteronomy|16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the
LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy
God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine
hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Deuteronomy|16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear
before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Deuteronomy|16:17 Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Deuteronomy|16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy
gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they
shall judge the people with just judgment.
Deuteronomy|16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect
persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise,
and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy|16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that
thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy|16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near
unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Deuteronomy|16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which the
LORD thy God hateth.
Deuteronomy|17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any]
bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that
[is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy|17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped
them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have
not commanded;
Deuteronomy|17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and
inquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the thing certain,
[that] such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Deuteronomy|17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman,
which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or
that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Deuteronomy|17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses,
shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one
witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy|17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt
put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy|17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment,
between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and
stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou
arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
Deuteronomy|17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and
unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall
show thee the sentence of judgment:
Deuteronomy|17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which
they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou
shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
Deuteronomy|17:11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall
teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou
shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show
thee, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left.
Deuteronomy|17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not
hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy
God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away
the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy|17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no
more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy|17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt
say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about
me;
Deuteronomy|17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom
the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set
king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which [is] not
thy brother.
Deuteronomy|17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause
the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses:
forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no
more that way.
Deuteronomy|17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his
heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver
and gold.
Deuteronomy|17:18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of
his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of
[that which is] before the priests the Levites:
Deuteronomy|17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein
all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to
keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
Deuteronomy|17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren,
and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or
[to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom,
he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy|18:1 The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi,
shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
Deuteronomy|18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their
brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
Deuteronomy|18:3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people,
from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep; and they
shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
Deuteronomy|18:4 The firstfruit [also] of thy corn, of thy wine, and of
thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
Deuteronomy|18:5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy
tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for
ever.
Deuteronomy|18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all
Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto
the place which the LORD shall choose;
Deuteronomy|18:7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God,
as all his brethren the Levites [do], which stand there before the LORD.
Deuteronomy|18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which
cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
Deuteronomy|18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations.
Deuteronomy|18:10 There shall not be found among you [any one] that
maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth
divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deuteronomy|18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or
a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy|18:12 For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto
the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive
them out from before thee.
Deuteronomy|18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened
unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy
God hath not suffered thee so [to do].
Deuteronomy|18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken;
Deuteronomy|18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy
God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the
voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that
I die not.
Deuteronomy|18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well [spoken
that] which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy|18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their
brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy|18:19 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not
hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it]
of him.
Deuteronomy|18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word
in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Deuteronomy|18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the
word which the LORD hath not spoken?
Deuteronomy|18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if
the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD
hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou
shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy|19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose
land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
in their cities, and in their houses;
Deuteronomy|19:2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst
of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy|19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of
thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts,
that every slayer may flee thither.
Deuteronomy|19:4 And this [is] the case of the slayer, which shall flee
thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he
hated not in time past;
Deuteronomy|19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to
hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree,
and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that
he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Deuteronomy|19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while
his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him;
whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time
past.
Deuteronomy|19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate
three cities for thee.
Deuteronomy|19:8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to
give unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy|19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them,
which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever
in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these
three:
Deuteronomy|19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood be upon thee.
Deuteronomy|19:11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for
him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and
fleeth into one of these cities:
Deuteronomy|19:12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him
thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may
die.
Deuteronomy|19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away
[the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy|19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which
they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in
the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy|19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any
iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
established.
Deuteronomy|19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify
against him [that which is] wrong;
Deuteronomy|19:17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is],
shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall
be in those days;
Deuteronomy|19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and,
behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely
against his brother;
Deuteronomy|19:19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have
done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy|19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
Deuteronomy|19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go]
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy|20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies,
and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not
afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy|20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle,
that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
Deuteronomy|20:3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach
this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear
not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
Deuteronomy|20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to
fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Deuteronomy|20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying,
What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it?
let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another
man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy|20:6 And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and
hath not [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
Deuteronomy|20:7 And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and
hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy|20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people,
and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and fainthearted?
let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as
well as his heart.
Deuteronomy|20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of
speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to
lead the people.
Deuteronomy|20:10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,
then proclaim peace unto it.
Deuteronomy|20:11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and
open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found
therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
Deuteronomy|20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make
war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
Deuteronomy|20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine
hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Deuteronomy|20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle,
and all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take
unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy|20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are]
very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations.
Deuteronomy|20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy
God doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that
breatheth:
Deuteronomy|20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the
Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
Deuteronomy|20:18 That they teach you not to do after all their
abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin
against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy|20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making
war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by
forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not
cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ
[them] in the siege:
Deuteronomy|20:20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not
trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build
bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy|21:1 If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known
who hath slain him:
Deuteronomy|21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and
they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is
slain:
Deuteronomy|21:3 And it shall be, [that] the city [which is] next unto
the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which
hath not been wrought with, [and] which hath not drawn in the yoke;
Deuteronomy|21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer
unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off
the heifer's neck there in the valley:
Deuteronomy|21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for
them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the
name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be [tried]:
Deuteronomy|21:6 And all the elders of that city, [that are] next unto
the slain [man], shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in
the valley:
Deuteronomy|21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed
this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it].
Deuteronomy|21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou
hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's
charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
Deuteronomy|21:9 So shalt thou put away the [guilt of] innocent blood
from among you, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of
the LORD.
Deuteronomy|21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies,
and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast
taken them captive,
Deuteronomy|21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and
hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
Deuteronomy|21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she
shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deuteronomy|21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from
off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her
husband, and she shall be thy wife.
Deuteronomy|21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then
thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all
for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast
humbled her.
Deuteronomy|21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another
hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated;
and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
Deuteronomy|21:16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit
[that] which he hath, [that] he may not make the son of the beloved
firstborn before the son of the hated, [which is indeed] the firstborn:
Deuteronomy|21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for]
the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he
[is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] his.
Deuteronomy|21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which
will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and
[that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Deuteronomy|21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,
and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his
place;
Deuteronomy|21:20 And they shall say unto 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.
Deuteronomy|21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with
stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all
Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy|21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and
he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy|21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but
thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is]
accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God
giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
Deuteronomy|22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go
astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again
unto thy brother.
Deuteronomy|22:2 And if thy brother [be] not nigh unto thee, or if thou
know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall
be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to
him again.
Deuteronomy|22:3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt
thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which
he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not
hide thyself.
Deuteronomy|22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall
down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to
lift [them] up again.
Deuteronomy|22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are]
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in
any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the
dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
with the young:
Deuteronomy|22:7 [But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take
the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and [that] thou mayest
prolong [thy] days.
Deuteronomy|22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a
battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any
man fall from thence.
Deuteronomy|22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest
the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard,
be defiled.
Deuteronomy|22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Deuteronomy|22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of
woollen and linen together.
Deuteronomy|22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of
thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself].
Deuteronomy|22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate
her,
Deuteronomy|22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up
an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her,
I found her not a maid:
Deuteronomy|22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother,
take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel's virginity unto the elders
of the city in the gate:
Deuteronomy|22:16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I
gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Deuteronomy|22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against
her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the
tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before
the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy|22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and
chastise him;
Deuteronomy|22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of
silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath
brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife;
he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy|22:20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of]
virginity be not found for the damsel:
Deuteronomy|22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of
her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones
that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore
in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy|22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an
husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the
woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy|22:23 If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an
husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deuteronomy|22:24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of
that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel,
because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Deuteronomy|22:25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and
the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her
shall die:
Deuteronomy|22:26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is]
in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against
his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:
Deuteronomy|22:27 For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed
damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.
Deuteronomy|22:28 If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is
not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deuteronomy|22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the
damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife;
because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy|22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover
his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy|23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy
member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy|23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the
LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation
of the LORD.
Deuteronomy|23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the
congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not
enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
Deuteronomy|23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in
the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against
thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Deuteronomy|23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto
Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee,
because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Deuteronomy|23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity
all thy days for ever.
Deuteronomy|23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy
brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in
his land.
Deuteronomy|23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into
the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
Deuteronomy|23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then
keep thee from every wicked thing.
Deuteronomy|23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by
reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad
out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
Deuteronomy|23:11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash
[himself] with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp
[again].
Deuteronomy|23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither
thou shalt go forth abroad:
Deuteronomy|23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it
shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and
shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
Deuteronomy|23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp,
to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall
thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from
thee.
Deuteronomy|23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant
which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Deuteronomy|23:16 He shall dwell with thee, [even] among you, in that
place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best:
thou shalt not oppress him.
Deuteronomy|23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy|23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price
of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both
these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury
of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Deuteronomy|23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto
thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest
to possess it.
Deuteronomy|23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou
shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of
thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy|23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin
in thee.
Deuteronomy|23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and
perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the
LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Deuteronomy|23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then
thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not
put [any] in thy vessel.
Deuteronomy|23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy
neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt
not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
Deuteronomy|24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it
come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found
some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and
give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deuteronomy|24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go
and be another man's [wife].
Deuteronomy|24:3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a
bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of
his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;
Deuteronomy|24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take
her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is]
abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
Deuteronomy|24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out
to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he shall be
free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Deuteronomy|24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to
pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
Deuteronomy|24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the
children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then
that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy|24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall
teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do.
Deuteronomy|24:9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the
way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy|24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt
not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deuteronomy|24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost
lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Deuteronomy|24:12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with
his pledge:
Deuteronomy|24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again
when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless
thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant [that is] poor
and needy, [whether he be] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that [are]
in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy|24:15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither
shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon
it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy|24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every
man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deuteronomy|24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger,
[nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy|24:18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee
to do this thing.
Deuteronomy|24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and
hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it
shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the
LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy|24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go
over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless,
and for the widow.
Deuteronomy|24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou
shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the
fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy|24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy|25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come
unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify
the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy|25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be
beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before
his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Deuteronomy|25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest,
[if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy
brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deuteronomy|25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the
corn].
Deuteronomy|25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and
have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a
stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him
to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Deuteronomy|25:6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth
shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be
not put out of Israel.
Deuteronomy|25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife,
then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My
husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel,
he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Deuteronomy|25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak
unto him: and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take her;
Deuteronomy|25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the
presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in
his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that
will not build up his brother's house.
Deuteronomy|25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of
him that hath his shoe loosed.
Deuteronomy|25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the
wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of
him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the
secrets:
Deuteronomy|25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not
pity [her].
Deuteronomy|25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great
and a small.
Deuteronomy|25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a small.
Deuteronomy|25:15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a
perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy|25:16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do
unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye
were come forth out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy|25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of
thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and
weary; and he feared not God.
Deuteronomy|25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath
given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou
shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not
forget [it].
Deuteronomy|26:1 And it shall be, when thou [art] come in unto the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and possessest it,
and dwellest therein;
Deuteronomy|26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of
the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
Deuteronomy|26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in
those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God,
that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for
to give us.
Deuteronomy|26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand,
and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A
Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and
sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and
populous:
Deuteronomy|26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us,
and laid upon us hard bondage:
Deuteronomy|26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the
LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our
oppression:
Deuteronomy|26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a
mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and
with signs, and with wonders:
Deuteronomy|26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given
us this land, [even] a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy|26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the
land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the
LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy|26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the
LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the
Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.
Deuteronomy|26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes
of thine increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing, and hast
given [it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
Deuteronomy|26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have
brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given
them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the
widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I
have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:
Deuteronomy|26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have
I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought]
thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my
God, [and] have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Deuteronomy|26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and
bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou
swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy|26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do
these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with
all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy|26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God,
and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments,
and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
Deuteronomy|26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his
peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep
all his commandments;
Deuteronomy|26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath
made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an
holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
Deuteronomy|27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the
people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
Deuteronomy|27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over
Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt
set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
Deuteronomy|27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this
law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as
the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy|27:4 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 plaster them with plaster.
Deuteronomy|27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy
God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon
them.
Deuteronomy|27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole
stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy|27:7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat
there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of
this law very plainly.
Deuteronomy|27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all
Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become
the people of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy
God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this
day.
Deuteronomy|27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
Deuteronomy|27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the
people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
Deuteronomy|27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse;
Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy|27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men
of Israel with a loud voice,
Deuteronomy|27:15 Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten
image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the
craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall
answer and say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his
mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:17 Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's landmark.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:18 Cursed [be] he that maketh the blind to wander out of
the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the
stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:20 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife;
because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,
Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:21 Cursed [be] he that lieth with any manner of beast.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:22 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his sister, the
daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:23 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother in law. And
all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:24 Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour secretly.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:25 Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an innocent
person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|27:26 Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of
this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy|28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all
his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will
set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Deuteronomy|28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and
overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|28:3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed
[shalt] thou [be] in the field.
Deuteronomy|28:4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit
of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and
the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy|28:5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy|28:6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and
blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy|28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against
thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one
way, and flee before thee seven ways.
Deuteronomy|28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy
storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall
bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy|28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto
himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of
the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
Deuteronomy|28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art
called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
Deuteronomy|28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in
the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of
thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy|28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the
heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the
work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt
not borrow.
Deuteronomy|28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the
tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that
thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command
thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:
Deuteronomy|28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words
which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left, to go
after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy|28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments
and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall
come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Deuteronomy|28:16 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed
[shalt] thou [be] in the field.
Deuteronomy|28:17 Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy|28:18 Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit
of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy|28:19 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and
cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy|28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and
rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy
doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
Deuteronomy|28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee,
until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to
possess it.
Deuteronomy|28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with
a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with
the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish.
Deuteronomy|28:23 And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass,
and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.
Deuteronomy|28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and
dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy|28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine
enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before
them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy|28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the
air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them] away.
Deuteronomy|28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and
with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst
not be healed.
Deuteronomy|28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness,
and astonishment of heart:
Deuteronomy|28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth
in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
Deuteronomy|28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie
with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou
shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
Deuteronomy|28:31 Thine ox [shall be] slain before thine eyes, and thou
shalt not eat thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently taken away from
before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep [shall be]
given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue [them].
Deuteronomy|28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto
another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail [with longing] for them
all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand.
Deuteronomy|28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a
nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and
crushed alway:
Deuteronomy|28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes
which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy|28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the
legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot
unto the top of thy head.
Deuteronomy|28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou
shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have
known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
Deuteronomy|28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and
a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Deuteronomy|28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy|28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them], but
shalt neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worms
shall eat them.
Deuteronomy|28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts,
but thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive shall
cast [his fruit].
Deuteronomy|28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt
not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy|28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust
consume.
Deuteronomy|28:43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above
thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
Deuteronomy|28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him:
he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Deuteronomy|28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and
shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
Deuteronomy|28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a
wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
Deuteronomy|28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with
joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];
Deuteronomy|28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the
LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,
and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck,
until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy|28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far,
from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose
tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deuteronomy|28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard
the person of the old, nor show favour to the young:
Deuteronomy|28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the
fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave
thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks
of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy|28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy
high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy
land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy|28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the
flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given
thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee:
Deuteronomy|28:54 [So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very
delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of
his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
Deuteronomy|28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh
of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee
in all thy gates.
Deuteronomy|28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would
not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness
and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Deuteronomy|28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between
her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat
them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness,
wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Deuteronomy|28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this
law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and
fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
Deuteronomy|28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the
plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long continuance, and
sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy|28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of
Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Deuteronomy|28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not
written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until
thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy|28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as
the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice
of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy|28:63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced
over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over
you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked
from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy|28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from
the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve
other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and
stone.
Deuteronomy|28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease,
neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee
there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Deuteronomy|28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou
shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Deuteronomy|28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of
thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes
which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy|28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with
ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more
again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and
bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].
Deuteronomy|29:1 These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD
commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy|29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them,
Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt
unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
Deuteronomy|29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the
signs, and those great miracles:
Deuteronomy|29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive,
and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Deuteronomy|29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your
clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy
foot.
Deuteronomy|29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or
strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy|29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of
Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we
smote them:
Deuteronomy|29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance
unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy|29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,
that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Deuteronomy|29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God;
your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all
the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy|29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that
[is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
Deuteronomy|29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD
thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this
day:
Deuteronomy|29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto
himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee,
and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy|29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this
oath;
Deuteronomy|29:15 But with [him] that standeth here with us this day
before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us
this day:
Deuteronomy|29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt;
and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
Deuteronomy|29:17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols,
wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)
Deuteronomy|29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or
family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God,
to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you
a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Deuteronomy|29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this
curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace,
though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to
thirst:
Deuteronomy|29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the
LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that
are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out
his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy|29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all
the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are
written in this book of the law:
Deuteronomy|29:22 So that the generation to come of your children that
shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land,
shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which
the LORD hath laid upon it;
Deuteronomy|29:23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and
salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass
groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and
Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deuteronomy|29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD
done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger?
Deuteronomy|29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
Deuteronomy|29:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped
them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:
Deuteronomy|29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this
land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
Deuteronomy|29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger,
and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
[it is] this day.
Deuteronomy|29:29 The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but
those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for
ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy|30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are
come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee,
and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD
thy God hath driven thee,
Deuteronomy|30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey
his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy
children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
Deuteronomy|30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and
have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
Deuteronomy|30:4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost
[parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from
thence will he fetch thee:
Deuteronomy|30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land
which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee
good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Deuteronomy|30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and
the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy|30:7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon
thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
Deuteronomy|30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD,
and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
Deuteronomy|30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every
work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy
cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again
rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Deuteronomy|30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this
book of the law, [and] if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy|30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it
[is] not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off.
Deuteronomy|30:12 It [is] not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who
shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it,
and do it?
Deuteronomy|30:13 Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest
say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may
hear it, and do it?
Deuteronomy|30:14 But the word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth,
and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Deuteronomy|30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good,
and death and evil;
Deuteronomy|30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and
his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy|30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not
hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Deuteronomy|30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely
perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither
thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
Deuteronomy|30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against
you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy|30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that
thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he
[is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy|31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
Deuteronomy|31:2 And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty
years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath
said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy|31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, [and] he
will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them:
[and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
Deuteronomy|31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and
to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
Deuteronomy|31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that
ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have
commanded you.
Deuteronomy|31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be
afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he
will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deuteronomy|31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the
sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with
this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to
give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
Deuteronomy|31:8 And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he
will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not,
neither be dismayed.
Deuteronomy|31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the
priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
and unto all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy|31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of
[every] seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast
of tabernacles,
Deuteronomy|31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy
God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all
Israel in their hearing.
Deuteronomy|31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and
children, and thy stranger that [is] within thy gates, that they may hear,
and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all
the words of this law:
Deuteronomy|31:13 And [that] their children, which have not known [any
thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live
in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy|31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days
approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the
tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and
Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
Deuteronomy|31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of
a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
Deuteronomy|31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep
with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the
gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and
will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy|31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that
day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they
shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that
they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our
God [is] not among us?
Deuteronomy|31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the
evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other
gods.
Deuteronomy|31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it
the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a
witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy|31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which
I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they
shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn
unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy|31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and
troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a
witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for
I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have
brought them into the land which I sware.
Deuteronomy|31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and
taught it the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy|31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said,
Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of
Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
Deuteronomy|31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of
writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deuteronomy|31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Deuteronomy|31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of
the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a
witness against thee.
Deuteronomy|31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold,
while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the
LORD; and how much more after my death?
Deuteronomy|31:28 Gather unto 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 record against them.
Deuteronomy|31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
[yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and
evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the
m to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy|31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of
Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Deuteronomy|32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O
earth, the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy|32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall
distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the
showers upon the grass:
Deuteronomy|32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye
greatness unto our God.
Deuteronomy|32:4 [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his
ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right
[is] he.
Deuteronomy|32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not
[the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy|32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and
unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made
thee, and established thee?
Deuteronomy|32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they
will tell thee.
Deuteronomy|32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their
inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the
people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy|32:9 For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the
lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy|32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste
howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the
apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy|32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her
young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
Deuteronomy|32:12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no
strange god with him.
Deuteronomy|32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that
he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out
of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy|32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs,
and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of
wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Deuteronomy|32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen
fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook
God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy|32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods],
with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deuteronomy|32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom
they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared
not.
Deuteronomy|32:18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and
hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deuteronomy|32:19 And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them],
because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Deuteronomy|32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see
what their end [shall be]: for they [are] a very froward generation,
children in whom [is] no faith.
Deuteronomy|32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is]
not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will
move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke
them to anger with a foolish nation.
Deuteronomy|32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn
unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and
set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy|32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine
arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy|32:24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with
burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of
beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Deuteronomy|32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy
both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray
hairs.
Deuteronomy|32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would
make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deuteronomy|32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest
their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they
should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Deuteronomy|32:28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is
there any] understanding in them.
Deuteronomy|32:29 O that they were wise, [that] they understood this,
[that] they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy|32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten
thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut
them up?
Deuteronomy|32:31 For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies
themselves [being] judges.
Deuteronomy|32:32 For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the
fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are]
bitter:
Deuteronomy|32:33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel
venom of asps.
Deuteronomy|32:34 [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed
up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy|32:35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompense; their
foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand,
and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Deuteronomy|32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent
himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and
[there is] none shut up, or left.
Deuteronomy|32:37 And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock
in whom they trusted,
Deuteronomy|32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank
the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be
your protection.
Deuteronomy|32:39 See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no
god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is
there any] that can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy|32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for
ever.
Deuteronomy|32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold
on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them
that hate me.
Deuteronomy|32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword
shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the
captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Deuteronomy|32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will
avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his
adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.
Deuteronomy|32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in
the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy|32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to
all Israel:
Deuteronomy|32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the
words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your
children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy|32:47 For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is]
your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land,
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy|32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day,
saying,
Deuteronomy|32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, [unto] mount
Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho; and
behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a
possession:
Deuteronomy|32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be
gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was
gathered unto his people:
Deuteronomy|32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of
Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because
ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy|32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee]; but thou
shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy|33:1 And this [is] the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of
God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy|33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from
Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten
thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy|33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints [are] in thy
hand: and they sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy
words.
Deuteronomy|33:4 Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the
congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy|33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the
people [and] the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
Deuteronomy|33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be
few.
Deuteronomy|33:7 And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear,
LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be
sufficient for him; and be thou an help [to him] from his enemies.
Deuteronomy|33:8 And of Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim
[be] with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with] whom
thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
Deuteronomy|33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not
seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own
children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Deuteronomy|33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy
law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon
thine altar.
Deuteronomy|33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his
hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them
that hate him, that they rise not again.
Deuteronomy|33:12 [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD
shall dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day
long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Deuteronomy|33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his
land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that
coucheth beneath,
Deuteronomy|33:14 And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the
sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
Deuteronomy|33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and
for the precious things of the lasting hills,
Deuteronomy|33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness
thereof, and [for] the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let [the
blessing] come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him
[that was] separated from his brethren.
Deuteronomy|33:17 His glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and
his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the
people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are] the ten thousands
of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy|33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going
out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
Deuteronomy|33:19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there
they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck [of] the
abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid in the sand.
Deuteronomy|33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed [be] he that enlargeth
Gad; he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
Deuteronomy|33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, because
there, [in] a portion of the lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with
the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his
judgments with Israel.
Deuteronomy|33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion's whelp: he shall
leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy|33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with
favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and
the south.
Deuteronomy|33:24 And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed with
children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot
in oil.
Deuteronomy|33:25 Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy days,
[so shall] thy strength [be].
Deuteronomy|33:26 [There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who]
rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
Deuteronomy|33:27 The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are]
the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee;
and shall say, Destroy [them].
Deuteronomy|33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain
of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
drop down dew.
Deuteronomy|33:29 Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O
people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of
thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
shalt tread upon their high places.
Deuteronomy|34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the
mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And
the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Deuteronomy|34:2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and
Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
Deuteronomy|34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho,
the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Deuteronomy|34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This [is] the land which I
sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto
thy seed: I have caused thee to see [it] with thine eyes, but thou shalt
not go over thither.
Deuteronomy|34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land
of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Deuteronomy|34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over
against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Deuteronomy|34:7 And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he
died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Deuteronomy|34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains
of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were
ended.
Deuteronomy|34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of
wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel
hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy|34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like
unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
Deuteronomy|34:11 In 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,
Deuteronomy|34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great
terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua|1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came
to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,
saying,
Joshua|1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this
Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them,
[even] to the children of Israel.
Joshua|1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that
have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
Joshua|1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great
river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the
great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua|1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the
days of thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee: I will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Joshua|1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt
thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers
to give them.
Joshua|1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded
thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou
mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua|1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but
thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way
prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Joshua|1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage;
be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with
thee whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua|1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
Joshua|1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying,
Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan,
to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess
it.
Joshua|1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the
tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
Joshua|1:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath
given you this land.
Joshua|1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain
in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass
before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
Joshua|1:15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath
given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God
giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and
enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan
toward the sunrising.
Joshua|1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest
us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
Joshua|1:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will
we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with
Moses.
Joshua|1:18 Whosoever [he be] that doth rebel against thy commandment,
and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he
shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
Joshua|2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy
secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came
into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua|2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there
came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the
country.
Joshua|2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth
the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they
be come to search out all the country.
Joshua|2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus,
There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:
Joshua|2:5 And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting of the gate,
when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not:
pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
Joshua|2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid
them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Joshua|2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the
fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they
shut the gate.
Joshua|2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon
the roof;
Joshua|2:9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given
you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the
inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
Joshua|2:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red
sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings
of the Amorites, that [were] on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom
ye utterly destroyed.
Joshua|2:11 And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did
melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you:
for the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
Joshua|2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since
I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my
father's house, and give me a true token:
Joshua|2:13 And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and
my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives
from death.
Joshua|2:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter
not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the
land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Joshua|2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her
house [was] upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Joshua|2:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the
pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers
be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
Joshua|2:17 And the men said unto her, We [will be] blameless of this
thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
Joshua|2:18 Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this
line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and
thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy
father's household, home unto thee.
Joshua|2:19 And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors
of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we
[will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his
blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.
Joshua|2:20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of
thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua|2:21 And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it. And she
sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the
window.
Joshua|2:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there
three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought
[them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not.
Joshua|2:23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain,
and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all
[things] that befell them:
Joshua|2:24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered
into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do
faint because of us.
Joshua|3:1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from
Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged
there before they passed over.
Joshua|3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went
through the host;
Joshua|3:3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of
the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it,
then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
Joshua|3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way
by which ye must go: for ye have not passed [this] way heretofore.
Joshua|3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for
tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
Joshua|3:6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of
the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of
the covenant, and went before the people.
Joshua|3:7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to
magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was
with Moses, [so] I will be with thee.
Joshua|3:8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the
covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye
shall stand still in Jordan.
Joshua|3:9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and
hear the words of the LORD your God.
Joshua|3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God
[is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you
the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and
the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua|3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth
passeth over before you into Jordan.
Joshua|3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of
Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Joshua|3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet
of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth,
shall rest in the waters of Jordan, [that] the waters of Jordan shall be
cut off [from] the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand
upon an heap.
Joshua|3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their
tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant
before the people;
Joshua|3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the
feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,
(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
Joshua|3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose
up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and
those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea,
failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against
Jericho.
Joshua|3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the
LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the
Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed
clean over Jordan.
Joshua|4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua|4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a
man,
Joshua|4:3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst
of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve
stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the
lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
Joshua|4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of
the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
Joshua|4:5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the
LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a
stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the
children of Israel:
Joshua|4:6 That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children
ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these
stones?
Joshua|4:7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut
off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan,
the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial
unto the children of Israel for ever.
Joshua|4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and
took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto
Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,
and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid
them down there.
Joshua|4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in
the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
stood: and they are there unto this day.
Joshua|4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of
Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to
speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and
the people hasted and passed over.
Joshua|4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the
presence of the people.
Joshua|4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and
half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of
Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Joshua|4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the
LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Joshua|4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all
Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his
life.
Joshua|4:15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua|4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that
they come up out of Jordan.
Joshua|4:17 Joshua|therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up
out of Jordan.
Joshua|4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of
the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, [and] the
soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the
waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks,
as [they did] before.
Joshua|4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of
the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
Joshua|4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did
Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
Joshua|4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your
children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these
stones?
Joshua|4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came
over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua|4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from
before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red
sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Joshua|4:24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the
LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
Joshua|5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites,
which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the
waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed
over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more,
because of the children of Israel.
Joshua|5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp
knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
Joshua|5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the
children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Joshua|5:4 And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the
people that came out of Egypt, [that were] males, [even] all the men of
war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Joshua|5:5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all
the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth
out of Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised.
Joshua|5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of
Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto
whom the LORD sware that he would not show them the land, which the LORD
sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with
milk and honey.
Joshua|5:7 And their children, [whom] he raised up in their stead, them
Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not
circumcised them by the way.
Joshua|5:8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the
people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
Joshua|5:9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away
the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is
called Gilgal unto this day.
Joshua|5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of
Jericho.
Joshua|5:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow
after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the selfsame
day.
Joshua|5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of
the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any
more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua|5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against
him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said
unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua|5:14 And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD
am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship,
and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
Joshua|5:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose
thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy.
And Joshua did so.
Joshua|6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of
Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua|6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine
hand Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the mighty men of valour.
Joshua|6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war, [and] go
round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
Joshua|6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of
rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and
the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Joshua|6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long [blast]
with the ram's horn, [and] when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the
people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall
down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
Joshua|6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto
them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
Joshua|6:7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city,
and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
Joshua|6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people,
that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on
before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of
the LORD followed them.
Joshua|6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the
trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and
blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua|6:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not
shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall [any] word proceed
out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
Joshua|6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it]
once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Joshua|6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took
up the ark of the LORD.
Joshua|6:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns
before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets:
and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of
the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua|6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and
returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Joshua|6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early
about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner
seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
Joshua|6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests
blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD
hath given you the city.
Joshua|6:17 And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that
[are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all
that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we
sent.
Joshua|6:18 And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed
thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed
thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Joshua|6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron,
[are] consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the
LORD.
Joshua|6:20 So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the
trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down
flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before
him, and they took the city.
Joshua|6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both
man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of
the sword.
Joshua|6:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the
country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and
all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Joshua|6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out
Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she
had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp
of Israel.
Joshua|6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was]
therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of
iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Joshua|6:25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's
household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel [even] unto
this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out
Jericho.
Joshua|6:26 And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be]
the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he
shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest
[son] shall he set up the gates of it.
Joshua|6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised]
throughout all the country.
Joshua|7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the
accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of
the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
Joshua|7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside
Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up
and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
Joshua|7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all
the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite
Ai; [and] make not all the people to labour thither; for they [are but]
few.
Joshua|7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand
men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua|7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for
they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote
them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and
became as water.
Joshua|7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his
face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of
Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Joshua|7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all
brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the
Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the
other side Jordan!
Joshua|7:8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs
before their enemies!
Joshua|7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall
hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the
earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
Joshua|7:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest
thou thus upon thy face?
Joshua|7:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed
thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put [it]
even among their own stuff.
Joshua|7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before
their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because
they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy
the accursed from among you.
Joshua|7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an
accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before
thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
Joshua|7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to
your tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD taketh shall
come according to the families [thereof]; and the family which the LORD
shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall
take shall come man by man.
Joshua|7:15 And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the accursed
thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath
transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in
Israel.
Joshua|7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel
by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
Joshua|7:17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family
of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and
Zabdi was taken:
Joshua|7:18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son
of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was
taken.
Joshua|7:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory
to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now
what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me.
Joshua|7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned
against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
Joshua|7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and
two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight,
then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the
earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Joshua|7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,
behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
Joshua|7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought
them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out
before the LORD.
Joshua|7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of
Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his
sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and
his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of
Achor.
Joshua|7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall
trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned
them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Joshua|7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this
day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the
name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Joshua|8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou
dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai:
see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his
city, and his land:
Joshua|8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto
Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall
ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind
it.
Joshua|8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against
Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent
them away by night.
Joshua|8:4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait
against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city,
but be ye all ready:
Joshua|8:5 And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will approach
unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as
at the first, that we will flee before them,
Joshua|8:6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them
from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first:
therefore we will flee before them.
Joshua|8:7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the
city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua|8:8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, [that] ye shall
set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do.
See, I have commanded you.
Joshua|8:9 Joshua|therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in
ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua
lodged that night among the people.
Joshua|8:10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the
people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Joshua|8:11 And all the people, [even the people] of war that [were]
with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on
the north side of Ai: now [there was] a valley between them and Ai.
Joshua|8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in
ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua|8:13 And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that
[was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the
city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Joshua|8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it], that they
hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel
to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain;
but he wist not that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the
city.
Joshua|8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before
them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua|8:16 And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together to
pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from
the city.
Joshua|8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not
out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Joshua|8:18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that
[is] in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua
stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city.
Joshua|8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they
ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the
city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
Joshua|8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and,
behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power
to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness
turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua|8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken
the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again,
and slew the men of Ai.
Joshua|8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they
were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and
they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
Joshua|8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to
Joshua.
Joshua|8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until
they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it
with the edge of the sword.
Joshua|8:25 And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both of men
and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai.
Joshua|8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched
out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua|8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a
prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he
commanded Joshua.
Joshua|8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, [even] a
desolation unto this day.
Joshua|8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and
as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his
carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the
city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this
day.
Joshua|8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in
mount Ebal,
Joshua|8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of
Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole
stones, over which no man hath lift up [any] iron: and they offered thereon
burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
Joshua|8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of
Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua|8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their
judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the
Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the
stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount
Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of
the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Joshua|8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the
blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the
law.
Joshua|8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which
Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and
the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
Joshua|9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were] on this
side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the
great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof];
Joshua|9:2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua
and with Israel, with one accord.
Joshua|9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done
unto Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua|9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been
ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old,
and rent, and bound up;
Joshua|9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments
upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy.
Joshua|9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said
unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now
therefore make ye a league with us.
Joshua|9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye
dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
Joshua|9:8 And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And Joshua
said unto them, Who [are] ye? and from whence come ye?
Joshua|9:9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants
are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the
fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua|9:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that
[were] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan,
which [was] at Ashtaroth.
Joshua|9:11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country
spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet
them, and say unto them, We [are] your servants: therefore now make ye a
league with us.
Joshua|9:12 This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our
houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry,
and it is mouldy:
Joshua|9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new; and,
behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old
by reason of the very long journey.
Joshua|9:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel]
at the mouth of the LORD.
Joshua|9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with
them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto
them.
Joshua|9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had
made a league with them, that they heard that they [were] their neighbours,
and [that] they dwelt among them.
Joshua|9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their
cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and
Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
Joshua|9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the
princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel.
And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
Joshua|9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have
sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch
them.
Joshua|9:20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest
wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Joshua|9:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them
be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the
princes had promised them.
Joshua|9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying,
Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very far from you; when ye
dwell among us?
Joshua|9:23 Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you
be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for
the house of my God.
Joshua|9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly
told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to
give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and
have done this thing.
Joshua|9:25 And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth good
and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
Joshua|9:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand
of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Joshua|9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of
water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this
day, in the place which he should choose.
Joshua|10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had
heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done
to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the
inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Joshua|10:2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city,
as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all
the men thereof [were] mighty.
Joshua|10:3 Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king
of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish,
and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Joshua|10:4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for
it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Joshua|10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all
their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
Joshua|10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to
Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us
quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that
dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
Joshua|10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of
war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
Joshua|10:8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before
thee.
Joshua|10:9 Joshua|therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up from
Gilgal all night.
Joshua|10:10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them
with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth
up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
Joshua|10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and]
were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones
from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which
died with hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the
sword.
Joshua|10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the
sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the
valley of Ajalon.
Joshua|10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the
people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in
the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and
hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua|10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that
the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
Joshua|10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp
to Gilgal.
Joshua|10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at
Makkedah.
Joshua|10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found
hid in a cave at Makkedah.
Joshua|10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the
cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
Joshua|10:19 And stay ye not, [but] pursue after your enemies, and smite
the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the
LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Joshua|10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel
had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were
consumed, that the rest [which] remained of them entered into fenced
cities.
Joshua|10:21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at
Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of
Israel.
Joshua|10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out
those five kings unto me out of the cave.
Joshua|10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto
him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of
Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, [and] the king of Eglon.
Joshua|10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto
Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the
captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet
upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon
the necks of them.
Joshua|10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be
strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies
against whom ye fight.
Joshua|10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged
them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
Joshua|10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the
sun, [that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and
cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in
the cave's mouth, [which remain] until this very day.
Joshua|10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the
edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all
the souls that [were] therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king
of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua|10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him,
unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Joshua|10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into
the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the
souls that [were] therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king
thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua|10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him,
unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua|10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel,
which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
and all the souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to
Libnah.
Joshua|10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and
Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Joshua|10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel
with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua|10:35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of
the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein he utterly destroyed that
day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
Joshua|10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him,
unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
Joshua|10:37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that
[were] therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done
to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that [were] therein.
Joshua|10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and
fought against it:
Joshua|10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities
thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed all the souls that [were] therein; he left none remaining: as he
had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had
done also to Libnah, and to her king.
Joshua|10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the
south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left
none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of
Israel commanded.
Joshua|10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and
all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Joshua|10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one
time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Joshua|10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp
to Gilgal.
Joshua|11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard
[those things], that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of
Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Joshua|11:2 And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains,
and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the
borders of Dor on the west,
Joshua|11:3 [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and [to]
the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the
mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Joshua|11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much
people, even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in multitude, with
horses and chariots very many.
Joshua|11:5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and
pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Joshua|11:6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of
them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before
Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
Joshua|11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
Joshua|11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who
smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and
unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left
them none remaining.
Joshua|11:9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he hocked
their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua|11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and
smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of
all those kingdoms.
Joshua|11:11 And they smote all the souls that [were] therein with the
edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any left to
breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Joshua|11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of
them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, [and] he
utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
Joshua|11:13 But [as for] the cities that stood still in their strength,
Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn.
Joshua|11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they
smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither
left they any to breathe.
Joshua|11:15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses
command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the
LORD commanded Moses.
Joshua|11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south
country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the
mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
Joshua|11:17 [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even
unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their
kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
Joshua|11:18 Joshua|made war a long time with all those kings.
Joshua|11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of
Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all [other] they took
in battle.
Joshua|11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they
should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly,
[and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
Joshua|11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from
the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the
mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed
them utterly with their cities.
Joshua|11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the
children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Joshua|11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the
LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel
according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Joshua|12:1 Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of
Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the
rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the
plain on the east:
Joshua|12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and]
ruled from Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the
middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok,
[which is] the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua|12:3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and
unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to
Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
Joshua|12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [which was] of the
remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Joshua|12:5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all
Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half
Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Joshua|12:6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of
Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it [for] a possession
unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua|12:7 And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua and
the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad
in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir;
which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel [for] a possession according to
their divisions;
Joshua|12:8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and
in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the
Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites:
Joshua|12:9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside
Bethel, one;
Joshua|12:10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Joshua|12:11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Joshua|12:12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
Joshua|12:13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Joshua|12:14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Joshua|12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Joshua|12:16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Joshua|12:17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua|12:18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
Joshua|12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
Joshua|12:20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
Joshua|12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Joshua|12:22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel,
one;
Joshua|12:23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the
nations of Gilgal, one;
Joshua|12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Joshua|13:1 Now Joshua was old [and] stricken in years; and the LORD
said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth
yet very much land to be possessed.
Joshua|13:2 This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of
the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Joshua|13:3 From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders
of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the
Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the
Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
Joshua|13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
that [is] beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
Joshua|13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the
sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
Joshua|13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before
the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for
an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
Joshua|13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the
nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua|13:8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses
the servant of the LORD gave them;
Joshua|13:9 From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and
the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba
unto Dibon;
Joshua|13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which
reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua|13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
Joshua|13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth
and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did
Moses smite, and cast them out.
Joshua|13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the
Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites
dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Joshua|13:14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the
sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their inheritance,
as he said unto them.
Joshua|13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
[inheritance] according to their families.
Joshua|13:16 And their coast was from Aroer, that [is] on the bank of
the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all
the plain by Medeba;
Joshua|13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Dibon,
and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
Joshua|13:18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Joshua|13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount
of the valley,
Joshua|13:20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
Joshua|13:21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of
Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with
the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, [which
were] dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
Joshua|13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the
children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Joshua|13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and
the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Reuben
after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
Joshua|13:24 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad, [even]
unto the children of Gad according to their families.
Joshua|13:25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead,
and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before
Rabbah;
Joshua|13:26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from
Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
Joshua|13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth,
and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and
[his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other
side Jordan eastward.
Joshua|13:28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after
their families, the cities, and their villages.
Joshua|13:29 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of
Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of the children
of Manasseh by their families.
Joshua|13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in
Bashan, threescore cities:
Joshua|13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the
kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the children of Machir the
son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their
families.
Joshua|13:32 These [are the countries] which Moses did distribute for
inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho,
eastward.
Joshua|13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any]
inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said
unto them.
Joshua|14:1 And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel
inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the
son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of
Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
Joshua|14:2 By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the
hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.
Joshua|14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an
half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none
inheritance among them.
Joshua|14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save
cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their
substance.
Joshua|14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,
and they divided the land.
Joshua|14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and
Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the
thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee
in Kadeshbarnea.
Joshua|14:7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the LORD
sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word
again as [it was] in mine heart.
Joshua|14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart
of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Joshua|14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon
thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for
ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
Joshua|14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,
these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses,
while [the children of] Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I
[am] this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua|14:11 As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day that
Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for
war, both to go out, and to come in.
Joshua|14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake
in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there,
and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD [will
be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
Joshua|14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
Joshua|14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the
LORD God of Israel.
Joshua|14:15 And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which
Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua|15:1 [This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of
Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin
southward [was] the uttermost part of the south coast.
Joshua|15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea,
from the bay that looketh southward:
Joshua|15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and
passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea,
and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to
Karkaa:
Joshua|15:4 [From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the
river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this
shall be your south coast.
Joshua|15:5 And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end
of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of
the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
Joshua|15:6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the
north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son
of Reuben:
Joshua|15:7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of
Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before the going
up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border
passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at
Enrogel:
Joshua|15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom
unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same [is] Jerusalem: and the
border went up to the top of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of
Hinnom westward, which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants
northward:
Joshua|15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the
fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount
Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which [is] Kirjathjearim:
Joshua|15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount
Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon,
on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Joshua|15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward:
and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and
went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
Joshua|15:12 And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the coast
[thereof]. This [is] the coast of the children of Judah round about
according to their families.
Joshua|15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among
the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua,
[even] the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron.
Joshua|15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Joshua|15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the
name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.
Joshua|15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
Joshua|15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took
it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Joshua|15:18 And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she moved
him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off [her] ass; and Caleb
said unto her, What wouldest thou?
Joshua|15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a
south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper
springs, and the nether springs.
Joshua|15:20 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families.
Joshua|15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of
Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
Joshua|15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
Joshua|15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
Joshua|15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
Joshua|15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is]
Hazor,
Joshua|15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
Joshua|15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
Joshua|15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
Joshua|15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
Joshua|15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
Joshua|15:31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
Joshua|15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the
cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:
Joshua|15:33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
Joshua|15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
Joshua|15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Joshua|15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;
fourteen cities with their villages:
Joshua|15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
Joshua|15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
Joshua|15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
Joshua|15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
Joshua|15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen
cities with their villages:
Joshua|15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Joshua|15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
Joshua|15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
their villages:
Joshua|15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
Joshua|15:46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod,
with their villages:
Joshua|15:47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns
and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the
border [thereof]:
Joshua|15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Joshua|15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir,
Joshua|15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
Joshua|15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their
villages:
Joshua|15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
Joshua|15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
Joshua|15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, and Zior;
nine cities with their villages:
Joshua|15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
Joshua|15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
Joshua|15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
Joshua|15:58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
Joshua|15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with
their villages:
Joshua|15:60 Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages:
Joshua|15:61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
Joshua|15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities
with their villages.
Joshua|15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with
the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Joshua|16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by
Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that
goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel.
Joshua|16:2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the
borders of Archi to Ataroth,
Joshua|16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the
coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are
at the sea.
Joshua|16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance.
Joshua|16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their
families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance on the east side
was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
Joshua|16:6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the
north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and
passed by it on the east to Janohah;
Joshua|16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath,
and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
Joshua|16:8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river
Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This [is] the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
Joshua|16:9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim [were]
among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with
their villages.
Joshua|16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer:
but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve
under tribute.
Joshua|17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [was]
the firstborn of Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh,
the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead
and Bashan.
Joshua|17:2 There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of
Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the
children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of
Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida:
these [were] the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their
families.
Joshua|17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the
son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these
[are] the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Tirzah.
Joshua|17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before
Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded
Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to
the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren
of their father.
Joshua|17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of
Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;
Joshua|17:6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among
his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
Joshua|17:7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that
[lieth] before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto
the inhabitants of Entappuah.
Joshua|17:8 [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the
border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;
Joshua|17:9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of
the river: these cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh: the
coast of Manasseh also [was] on the north side of the river, and the
outgoings of it were at the sea:
Joshua|17:10 Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward [it was]
Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on
the north, and in Issachar on the east.
Joshua|17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her
towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns,
and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach
and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, [even] three
countries.
Joshua|17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the
inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Joshua|17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen
strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive
them out.
Joshua|17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why
hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am]
a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
Joshua|17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people,
[then] get thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for thyself there in
the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too
narrow for thee.
Joshua|17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for
us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have
chariots of iron, [both they] who [are] of Bethshean and her towns, and
[they] who [are] of the valley of Jezreel.
Joshua|17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, [even] to
Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great people, and hast great
power: thou shalt not have one lot [only]:
Joshua|17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood, and
thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou
shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, [and]
though they [be] strong.
Joshua|18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation
there. And the land was subdued before them.
Joshua|18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven
tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
Joshua|18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long [are]
ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath
given you?
Joshua|18:4 Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I
will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe
it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.
Joshua|18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide
in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their
coasts on the north.
Joshua|18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and
bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here
before the LORD our God.
Joshua|18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood
of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe
of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east,
which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
Joshua|18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them
that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and
describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before
the LORD in Shiloh.
Joshua|18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described
it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came [again] to Joshua to the
host at Shiloh.
Joshua|18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD:
and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to
their divisions.
Joshua|18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came
up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth
between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Joshua|18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the
border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up
through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the
wilderness of Bethaven.
Joshua|18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the
side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to
Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether
Bethhoron.
Joshua|18:14 And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the corner
of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron
southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which [is]
Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this [was] the west
quarter.
Joshua|18:15 And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjathjearim,
and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of
Nephtoah:
Joshua|18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that
[lieth] before the valley of the son of Hinnom, [and] which [is] in the
valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom,
to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
Joshua|18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh,
and went forth toward Geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of
Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
Joshua|18:18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah
northward, and went down unto Arabah:
Joshua|18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah
northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the
salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast.
Joshua|18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This
[was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof
round about, according to their families.
Joshua|18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of
Keziz.
Joshua|18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
Joshua|18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Joshua|18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities
with their villages:
Joshua|18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Joshua|18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
Joshua|18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
Joshua|18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem,
Gibeath, [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Joshua|19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the
tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their
inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Joshua|19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and
Moladah,
Joshua|19:3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
Joshua|19:4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
Joshua|19:5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
Joshua|19:6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their
villages:
Joshua|19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their
villages:
Joshua|19:8 And all the villages that [were] round about these cities to
Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua|19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the
inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of
Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their
inheritance within the inheritance of them.
Joshua|19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto
Sarid:
Joshua|19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and
reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam;
Joshua|19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto
the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up
to Japhia.
Joshua|19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to
Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
Joshua|19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to
Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
Joshua|19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and
Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua|19:16 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua|19:17 [And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children
of Issachar according to their families.
Joshua|19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and
Shunem,
Joshua|19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
Joshua|19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
Joshua|19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;
Joshua|19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen
cities with their villages.
Joshua|19:23 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua|19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families.
Joshua|19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and
Achshaph,
Joshua|19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to
Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
Joshua|19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth
to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of
Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
Joshua|19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even] unto
great Zidon;
Joshua|19:29 And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong
city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at
the sea from the coast to Achzib:
Joshua|19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities
with their villages.
Joshua|19:31 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua|19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, [even]
for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
Joshua|19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim,
and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were
at Jordan:
Joshua|19:34 And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and
goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side,
and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the
sunrising.
Joshua|19:35 And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath,
Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
Joshua|19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
Joshua|19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
Joshua|19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and
Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
Joshua|19:39 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua|19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Dan according to their families.
Joshua|19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol,
and Irshemesh,
Joshua|19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
Joshua|19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
Joshua|19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
Joshua|19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
Joshua|19:46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
Joshua|19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little]
for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem,
and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and
dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Joshua|19:48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua|19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for
inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to
Joshua the son of Nun among them:
Joshua|19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city
which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the
city, and dwelt therein.
Joshua|19:51 These [are] the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the
children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the
LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an
end of dividing the country.
Joshua|20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua|20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you
cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
Joshua|20:3 That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and]
unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the
avenger of blood.
Joshua|20:4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall
stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause
in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city
unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua|20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they
shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his
neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
Joshua|20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high priest that
shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own
city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua|20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, in the
mountain of Judah.
Joshua|20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they
assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben,
and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of
the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua|20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever
killeth [any] person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the
hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Joshua|21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto
Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of
the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
Joshua|21:2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell
in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
Joshua|21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of
their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their
suburbs.
Joshua|21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and
the children of Aaron the priest, [which were] of the Levites, had by lot
out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the
tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
Joshua|21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath [had] by lot out of
the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out
of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Joshua|21:6 And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the
tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan,
thirteen cities.
Joshua|21:7 The children of Merari by their families [had] out of the
tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of
Zebulun, twelve cities.
Joshua|21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites
these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
Moses.
Joshua|21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and
out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here]
mentioned by name,
Joshua|21:10 Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families of the
Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the
first lot.
Joshua|21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak,
which [city is] Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah, with the suburbs
thereof round about it.
Joshua|21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave
they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
Joshua|21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron
with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with
her suburbs,
Joshua|21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs,
[and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Joshua|21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs,
Geba with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four
cities.
Joshua|21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,
[were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Joshua|21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their
lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Joshua|21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount
Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her
suburbs,
Joshua|21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her
suburbs; four cities.
Joshua|21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs,
Gibbethon with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four
cities.
Joshua|21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her
suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
Joshua|21:26 All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs for the
families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Joshua|21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the
Levites, out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in
Bashan with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and
Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
Joshua|21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs,
Dabareh with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four
cities.
Joshua|21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs,
Abdon with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four
cities.
Joshua|21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with
her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with
her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
Joshua|21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their
families [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Joshua|21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest
of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and
Kartah with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four
cities.
Joshua|21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and
Jahazah with her suburbs,
Joshua|21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs;
four cities.
Joshua|21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her
suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her
suburbs,
Joshua|21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four
cities in all.
Joshua|21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their
families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were [by]
their lot twelve cities.
Joshua|21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the
children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
Joshua|21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about
them: thus [were] all these cities.
Joshua|21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware
to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Joshua|21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all
that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their
enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Joshua|21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Joshua|22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua|22:2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant
of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded
you:
Joshua|22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this
day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Joshua|22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your
brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto
your tents, [and] unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant
of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
Joshua|22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,
which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God,
and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave
unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua|22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went
unto their tents.
Joshua|22:7 Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had
given [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Joshua
among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent
them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
Joshua|22:8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto
your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with
brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your
enemies with your brethren.
Joshua|22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel
out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of
Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed,
according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Joshua|22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that [are]
in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to
see to.
Joshua|22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children
of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built
an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the
passage of the children of Israel.
Joshua|22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole
congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at
Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
Joshua|22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into
the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
Joshua|22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an head of the
house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
Joshua|22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the
children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of
Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
Joshua|22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What
trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to
turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an
altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
Joshua|22:17 [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we
are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the
congregation of the LORD,
Joshua|22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the
LORD? and it will be, [seeing] ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to
morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
Joshua|22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be]
unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD,
wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but
rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar
beside the altar of the LORD our God.
Joshua|22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the
accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that
man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Joshua|22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands
of Israel,
Joshua|22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and
Israel he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in transgression
against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
Joshua|22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the
LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to
offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require [it];
Joshua|22:24 And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this]
thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children,
saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
Joshua|22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you,
ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so
shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
Joshua|22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar,
not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
Joshua|22:27 But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and
our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before
him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace
offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come,
Ye have no part in the LORD.
Joshua|22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so]
say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again],
Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not
for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us
and you.
Joshua|22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn
this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings,
for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God
that [is] before his tabernacle.
Joshua|22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were] with him,
heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
Joshua|22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the
children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have
not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the
children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
Joshua|22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the
princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of
Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of
Israel, and brought them word again.
Joshua|22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the
children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in
battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
Joshua|22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called
the altar [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD [is]
God.
Joshua|23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had
given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua
waxed old [and] stricken in age.
Joshua|23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, [and] for their elders,
and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said
unto them, I am old [and] stricken in age:
Joshua|23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto
all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath
fought for you.
Joshua|23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that
remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the
nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Joshua|23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,
and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as
the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
Joshua|23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that
is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside
therefrom [to] the right hand or [to] the left;
Joshua|23:7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain
among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to
swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
Joshua|23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this
day.
Joshua|23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations
and strong: but [as for] you, no man hath been able to stand before you
unto this day.
Joshua|23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your
God, he [it is] that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
Joshua|23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the
LORD your God.
Joshua|23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the
remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you, and shall
make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
Joshua|23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more
drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares
and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes,
until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given
you.
Joshua|23:14 And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the
earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one
thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake
concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath
failed thereof.
Joshua|23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things
are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD
bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this
good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Joshua|23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your
God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed
yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against
you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given
unto you.
Joshua|24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and
called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges,
and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Joshua|24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time,
[even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they
served other gods.
Joshua|24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the
flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his
seed, and gave him Isaac.
Joshua|24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau
mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
Joshua|24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according
to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
Joshua|24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto
the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and
horsemen unto the Red sea.
Joshua|24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between
you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and
your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the
wilderness a long season.
Joshua|24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt
on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into
your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from
before you.
Joshua|24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred
against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Joshua|24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed
you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Joshua|24:11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men
of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua|24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from
before you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites; [but] not with thy sword,
nor with thy bow.
Joshua|24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour,
and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and
oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Joshua|24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and
in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side
of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Joshua|24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you
this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served
that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua|24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should
forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Joshua|24:17 For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us up and our
fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did
those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we
went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
Joshua|24:18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even
the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the
LORD; for he [is] our God.
Joshua|24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD:
for he [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your
transgressions nor your sins.
Joshua|24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he
will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you
good.
Joshua|24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the
LORD.
Joshua|24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses against
yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said,
[We are] witnesses.
Joshua|24:23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods which
[are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
Joshua|24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we
serve, and his voice will we obey.
Joshua|24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set
them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua|24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God,
and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by the
sanctuary of the LORD.
Joshua|24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone
shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD
which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye
deny your God.
Joshua|24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his
inheritance.
Joshua|24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son
of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years
old.
Joshua|24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of
Gaash.
Joshua|24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all
the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the
works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Joshua|24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel
brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground
which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an
hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of
Joseph.
Joshua|24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a
hill [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount
Ephraim.
Judges|1:1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the
children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against
the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges|1:2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have
delivered the land into his hand.
Judges|1:3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into
my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go
with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
Judges|1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and
the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand
men.
Judges|1:5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against
him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges|1:6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught
him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Judges|1:7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their
thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their meat] under my table:
as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem,
and there he died.
Judges|1:8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and
had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city
on fire.
Judges|1:9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight
against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and
in the valley.
Judges|1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron:
(now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges|1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir:
and the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher:
Judges|1:12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh
it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
Judges|1:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took
it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Judges|1:14 And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved
him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off [her] ass; and
Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
Judges|1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast
given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her
the upper springs and the nether springs.
Judges|1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went
up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the
wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went and
dwelt among the people.
Judges|1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the
Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name
of the city was called Hormah.
Judges|1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon
with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
Judges|1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out [the
inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of
the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges|1:20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he
expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
Judges|1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites
that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
Judges|1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel:
and the LORD [was] with them.
Judges|1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name
of the city before [was] Luz.)
Judges|1:24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they
said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we
will show thee mercy.
Judges|1:25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they
smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all
his family.
Judges|1:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a
city, and called the name thereof Luz: which [is] the name thereof unto
this day.
Judges|1:27 Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of]
Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of
Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the
inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in
that land.
Judges|1:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put
the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
Judges|1:29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
Judges|1:30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor
the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became
tributaries.
Judges|1:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor
the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor
of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
Judges|1:32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the
inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
Judges|1:33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of
Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of
Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
Judges|1:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the
mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
Judges|1:35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and
in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they
became tributaries.
Judges|1:36 And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to
Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
Judges|2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and
said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land
which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant
with you.
Judges|2:2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this
land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice:
why have ye done this?
Judges|2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before
you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a
snare unto you.
Judges|2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these
words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their
voice, and wept.
Judges|2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there unto the LORD.
Judges|2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel
went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Judges|2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and
all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great
works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
Judges|2:8 And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died,
[being] an hundred and ten years old.
Judges|2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
Judges|2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their
fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the
LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
Judges|2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and served Baalim:
Judges|2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods
of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves unto them,
and provoked the LORD to anger.
Judges|2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Judges|2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold
them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not
any longer stand before their enemies.
Judges|2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was
against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto
them: and they were greatly distressed.
Judges|2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them
out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
Judges|2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they
went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they
turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the
commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.
Judges|2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was
with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the
days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by
reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
Judges|2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that] they
returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers, in following
other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from
their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Judges|2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he
said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I
commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Judges|2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of
the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges|2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or
not.
Judges|2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them
out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges|3:1 Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove
Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of
Canaan;
Judges|3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might
know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Judges|3:3 [Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the
Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon,
from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Judges|3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their
fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges|3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Judges|3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave
their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Judges|3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
Judges|3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and
he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and
the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
Judges|3:9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD
raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, [even]
Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges|3:10 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged
Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king
of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against
Chushanrishathaim.
Judges|3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of
Kenaz died.
Judges|3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of
the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel,
because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Judges|3:13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek,
and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
Judges|3:14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab
eighteen years.
Judges|3:15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the
LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man
lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the
king of Moab.
Judges|3:16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit
length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
Judges|3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and
Eglon [was] a very fat man.
Judges|3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent
away the people that bare the present.
Judges|3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by
Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep
silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
Judges|3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer
parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message
from God unto thee. And he arose out of [his] seat.
Judges|3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from
his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges|3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat
closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his
belly; and the dirt came out.
Judges|3:23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors
of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
Judges|3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw
that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they said, Surely he
covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Judges|3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he
opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened
[them]: and, behold, their lord [was] fallen down dead on the earth.
Judges|3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the
quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
Judges|3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a
trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down
with him from the mount, and he before them.
Judges|3:28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath
delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down
after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man
to pass over.
Judges|3:29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men,
all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
Judges|3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And
the land had rest fourscore years.
Judges|3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of
the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered
Israel.
Judges|4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the
LORD, when Ehud was dead.
Judges|4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan,
that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host [was] Sisera, which dwelt
in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Judges|4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had
nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the
children of Israel.
Judges|4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged
Israel at that time.
Judges|4:5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah
and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for
judgment.
Judges|4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of
Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel
commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten
thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
Judges|4:7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the
captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will
deliver him into thine hand.
Judges|4:8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will
go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.
Judges|4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the
journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall
sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with
Barak to Kedesh.
Judges|4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went
up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
Judges|4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab
the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and
pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.
Judges|4:12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was
gone up to mount Tabor.
Judges|4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, [even] nine
hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that [were] with him, from
Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
Judges|4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this [is] the day in
which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone
out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men
after him.
Judges|4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all [his] chariots, and
all [his] host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera
lighted down off [his] chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Judges|4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host,
unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the
edge of the sword; [and] there was not a man left.
Judges|4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the
wife of Heber the Kenite: for [there was] peace between Jabin the king of
Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Judges|4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn
in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her
into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
Judges|4:19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water
to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him
drink, and covered him.
Judges|4:20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and
it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there
any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
Judges|4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an
hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his
temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary.
So he died.
Judges|4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou
seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay dead, and the
nail [was] in his temples.
Judges|4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before
the children of Israel.
Judges|4:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and
prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin
king of Canaan.
Judges|5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,
saying,
Judges|5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the
people willingly offered themselves.
Judges|5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, [even] I, will
sing unto the LORD; I will sing [praise] to the LORD God of Israel.
Judges|5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out
of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the
clouds also dropped water.
Judges|5:5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, [even] that Sinai
from before the LORD God of Israel.
Judges|5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael,
the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Judges|5:7 [The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in
Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges|5:8 They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a
shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges|5:9 My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered
themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Judges|5:10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment,
and walk by the way.
Judges|5:11 [They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the
places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of
the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his
villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
Judges|5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise,
Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Judges|5:13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the
nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
Judges|5:14 Out of Ephraim [was there] a root of them against Amalek;
after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors,
and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Judges|5:15 And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even
Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the
divisions of Reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart.
Judges|5:16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings
of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great searchings of
heart.
Judges|5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?
Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Judges|5:18 Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their
lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Judges|5:19 The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan
in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
Judges|5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera.
Judges|5:21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the
river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
Judges|5:22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the
prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
Judges|5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye
bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the
LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Judges|5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite
be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Judges|5:25 He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth
butter in a lordly dish.
Judges|5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the
workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his
head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Judges|5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he
bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Judges|5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried
through the lattice, Why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the
wheels of his chariots?
Judges|5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to
herself,
Judges|5:30 Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to
every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of
divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both
sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?
Judges|5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that
love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had
rest forty years.
Judges|6:1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD:
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges|6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: [and]
because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which
[are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
Judges|6:3 And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites
came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came
up against them;
Judges|6:4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of
the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel,
neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Judges|6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they
came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were
without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
Judges|6:6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the
Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
Judges|6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto
the LORD because of the Midianites,
Judges|6:8 That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel,
which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up
from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
Judges|6:9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out
of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you,
and gave you their land;
Judges|6:10 And I said unto you, I [am] the LORD your God; fear not the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my
voice.
Judges|6:11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak
which [was] in Ophrah, that [pertained] unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his
son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide [it] from the
Midianites.
Judges|6:12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto
him, The LORD [is] with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Judges|6:13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with
us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all his miracles which
our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?
but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the
Midianites.
Judges|6:14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy
might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not
I sent thee?
Judges|6:15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save
Israel? behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I [am] the least in my
father's house.
Judges|6:16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and
thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Judges|6:17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy
sight, then show me a sign that thou talkest with me.
Judges|6:18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and
bring forth my present, and set [it] before thee. And he said, I will tarry
until thou come again.
Judges|6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened
cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the
broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and presented
[it].
Judges|6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the
unleavened cakes, and lay [them] upon this rock, and pour out the broth.
And he did so.
Judges|6:21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff
that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and
there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the
unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Judges|6:22 And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an angel of the
LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of
the LORD face to face.
Judges|6:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace [be] unto thee; fear not:
thou shalt not die.
Judges|6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called
it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges|6:25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven
years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut
down the grove that [is] by it:
Judges|6:26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of
this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a
burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
Judges|6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the
LORD had said unto him: and [so] it was, because he feared his father's
household, and the men of the city, that he could not do [it] by day, that
he did [it] by night.
Judges|6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,
behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that
[was] by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was]
built.
Judges|6:29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And
when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done
this thing.
Judges|6:30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son,
that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because
he hath cut down the grove that [was] by it.
Judges|6:31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye
plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be
put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god, let him plead
for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar.
Judges|6:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let
Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
Judges|6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children
of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the
valley of Jezreel.
Judges|6:34 But the spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a
trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
Judges|6:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was
gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun,
and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
Judges|6:36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine
hand, as thou hast said,
Judges|6:37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; [and] if
the dew be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all the earth [beside],
then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast
said.
Judges|6:38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and
thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl
full of water.
Judges|6:39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against
me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this
once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all
the ground let there be dew.
Judges|6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece
only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Judges|7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who [is] Gideon, and all the people that
[were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so
that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill
of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges|7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with
thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest
Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Judges|7:3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people,
saying, Whosoever [is] fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early
from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two
thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Judges|7:4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet [too]
many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there:
and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee,
the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall
not go with thee, the same shall not go.
Judges|7:5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD
said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a
dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth
down upon his knees to drink.
Judges|7:6 And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their hand to
their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed
down upon their knees to drink water.
Judges|7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that
lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let
all the [other] people go every man unto his place.
Judges|7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their
trumpets: and he sent all [the rest of] Israel every man unto his tent, and
retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in
the valley.
Judges|7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto
him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine
hand.
Judges|7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant
down to the host:
Judges|7:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine
hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with
Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that [were] in the
host.
Judges|7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children
of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and
their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for
multitude.
Judges|7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, [there was] a man that
told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo,
a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a
tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay
along.
Judges|7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This [is] nothing else
save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: [for] into his
hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Judges|7:15 And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream,
and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the
host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand
the host of Midian.
Judges|7:16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies,
and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps
within the pitchers.
Judges|7:17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and,
behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that], as I
do, so shall ye do.
Judges|7:18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me,
then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The
sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges|7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came
unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they
had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the
pitchers that [were] in their hands.
Judges|7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the
pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their
right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of
Gideon.
Judges|7:21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp:
and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
Judges|7:22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set
every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the
host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, [and] to the border of Abelmeholah,
unto Tabbath.
Judges|7:23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of
Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the
Midianites.
Judges|7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim,
saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters
unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves
together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
Judges|7:25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb;
and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress
of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to
Gideon on the other side Jordan.
Judges|8:1 And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us
thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the
Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
Judges|8:2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of
you? [Is] not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage
of Abiezer?
Judges|8:3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian,
Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their
anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
Judges|8:4 And Gideon came to Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the
three hundred men that [were] with him, faint, yet pursuing [them].
Judges|8:5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves
of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am
pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
Judges|8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the hands of Zebah and
Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
Judges|8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah
and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of
the wilderness and with briers.
Judges|8:8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them
likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had
answered [him].
Judges|8:9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come
again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Judges|8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their hosts
with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the
hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty
thousand men that drew sword.
Judges|8:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on
the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was
secure.
Judges|8:12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and
took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the
host.
Judges|8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the
sun [was up],
Judges|8:14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired
of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders
thereof, [even] threescore and seventeen men.
Judges|8:15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah
and Zalmunna with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, [Are] the hands of Zebah
and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men
[that are] weary?
Judges|8:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the
wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges|8:17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of
the city.
Judges|8:18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men
[were they] whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou [art], so
[were] they; each one resembled the children of a king.
Judges|8:19 And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the sons of my
mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay
you.
Judges|8:20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, [and] slay them.
But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he [was] yet a
youth.
Judges|8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us:
for as the man [is, so is] his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah
and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that [were] on their camels'
necks.
Judges|8:22 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us,
both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us
from the hand of Midian.
Judges|8:23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither
shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
Judges|8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you,
that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had
golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)
Judges|8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give [them]. And they
spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
Judges|8:26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was
a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold; beside ornaments, and
collars, and purple raiment that [was] on the kings of Midian, and beside
the chains that [were] about their camels' necks.
Judges|8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city,
[even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which
thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Judges|8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so
that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness
forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges|8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
house.
Judges|8:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten:
for he had many wives.
Judges|8:31 And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a
son, whose name he called Abimelech.
Judges|8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was
buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges|8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made
Baalberith their god.
Judges|8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their
God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every
side:
Judges|8:35 Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
[namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto
Israel.
Judges|9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his
mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the
house of his mother's father, saying,
Judges|9:2 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.
Judges|9:3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the
men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow
Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother.
Judges|9:4 And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out
of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light
persons, which followed him.
Judges|9:5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his
brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore and ten persons, upon
one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was
left; for he hid himself.
Judges|9:6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the
house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the
pillar that [was] in Shechem.
Judges|9:7 And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the
top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto
them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Judges|9:8 The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them;
and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
Judges|9:9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness,
wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the
trees?
Judges|9:10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, [and] reign
over us.
Judges|9:11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my
sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges|9:12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, [and] reign
over us.
Judges|9:13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which
cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges|9:14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, [and]
reign over us.
Judges|9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint
me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my shadow: and if
not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges|9:16 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;
Judges|9:17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far,
and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Judges|9:18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and
have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have
made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem,
because he [is] your brother;)
Judges|9:19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and
with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also
rejoice in you:
Judges|9:20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the
men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men
of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
Judges|9:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt
there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
Judges|9:22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,
Judges|9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men
of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
Judges|9:24 That the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten sons of
Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother,
which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the
killing of his brethren.
Judges|9:25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top
of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and
it was told Abimelech.
Judges|9:26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went
over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
Judges|9:27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their
vineyards, and trode [the grapes], and made merry, and went into the house
of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
Judges|9:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who [is] Abimelech, and who
[is] Shechem, that we should serve him? [is] not [he] the son of Jerubbaal?
and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for
why should we serve him?
Judges|9:29 And would to God this people were under my hand! then would
I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come
out.
Judges|9:30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal
the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
Judges|9:31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying,
Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and,
behold, they fortify the city against thee.
Judges|9:32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that [is]
with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Judges|9:33 And it shall be, [that] in the morning, as soon as the sun
is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, [when] he
and the people that [is] with him come out against thee, then mayest thou
do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
Judges|9:34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that [were] with
him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Judges|9:35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering
of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that [were]
with him, from lying in wait.
Judges|9:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold,
there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto
him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as [if they were] men.
Judges|9:37 And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by
the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of
Meonenim.
Judges|9:38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where [is] now thy mouth,
wherewith thou saidst, Who [is] Abimelech, that we should serve him? [is]
not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight
with them.
Judges|9:39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with
Abimelech.
Judges|9:40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many
were overthrown [and] wounded, [even] unto the entering of the gate.
Judges|9:41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and
his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
Judges|9:42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out
into the field; and they told Abimelech.
Judges|9:43 And he took the people, and divided them into three
companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people
[were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote
them.
Judges|9:44 And Abimelech, and the company that [was] with him, rushed
forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two
[other] companies ran upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and
slew them.
Judges|9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he
took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the
city, and sowed it with salt.
Judges|9:46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that],
they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
Judges|9:47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of
Shechem were gathered together.
Judges|9:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the
people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut
down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder,
and said unto the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen me do,
make haste, [and] do as I [have done].
Judges|9:49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough,
and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on
fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also,
about a thousand men and women.
Judges|9:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez,
and took it.
Judges|9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither
fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] to
them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Judges|9:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it,
and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges|9:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon
Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Judges|9:54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer,
and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A
woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Judges|9:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they
departed every man unto his place.
Judges|9:56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did
unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
Judges|9:57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon
their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
Judges|10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the
son of Puah the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he dwelt in Shamir in
mount Ephraim.
Judges|10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and
was buried in Shamir.
Judges|10:3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel
twenty and two years.
Judges|10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and
they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which
[are] in the land of Gilead.
Judges|10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
Judges|10:6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of
the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the
gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon,
and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Judges|10:7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the
children of Ammon.
Judges|10:8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of
Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other
side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.
Judges|10:9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight
also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim;
so that Israel was sore distressed.
Judges|10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We
have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also
served Baalim.
Judges|10:11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I
deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children
of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges|10:12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites,
did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
Judges|10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I
will deliver you no more.
Judges|10:14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them
deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Judges|10:15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have
sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only,
we pray thee, this day.
Judges|10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and
served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Judges|10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and
encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves
together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
Judges|10:18 And the people [and] princes of Gilead said one to another,
What man [is he] that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he
shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges|11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and
he [was] the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges|11:2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew
up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit
in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a strange woman.
Judges|11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land
of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with
him.
Judges|11:4 And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of
Ammon made war against Israel.
Judges|11:5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war
against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land
of Tob:
Judges|11:6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that
we may fight with the children of Ammon.
Judges|11:7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate
me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now
when ye are in distress?
Judges|11:8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we
turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the
children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges|11:9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me
home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver
them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges|11:10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be
witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
Judges|11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the
people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his
words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
Judges|11:12 And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children
of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against
me to fight in my land?
Judges|11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the
messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up
out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore
restore those [lands] again peaceably.
Judges|11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the
children of Ammon:
Judges|11:15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not
away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
Judges|11:16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the
wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
Judges|11:17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying,
Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not
hearken [thereto]. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but
he would not [consent]: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
Judges|11:18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed
the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the
land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within
the border of Moab: for Arnon [was] the border of Moab.
Judges|11:19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee,
through thy land into my place.
Judges|11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but
Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought
against Israel.
Judges|11:21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his
people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed
all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
Judges|11:22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from
Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
Judges|11:23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the
Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges|11:24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth
thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before
us, them will we possess.
Judges|11:25 And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the son of
Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever
fight against them,
Judges|11:26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer
and her towns, and in all the cities that [be] along by the coasts of
Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover [them] within
that time?
Judges|11:27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me
wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the
children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges|11:28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not
unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Judges|11:29 Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he
passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and
from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon.
Judges|11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou
shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
Judges|11:31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors
of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon,
shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Judges|11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight
against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
Judges|11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to
Minnith, [even] twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a
very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the
children of Israel.
Judges|11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold,
his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she
[was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges|11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his
clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and
thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the
LORD, and I cannot go back.
Judges|11:36 And she said unto him, My father, [if] thou hast opened thy
mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of
thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine
enemies, [even] of the children of Ammon.
Judges|11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for
me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains,
and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
Judges|11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and
she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the
mountains.
Judges|11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she
returned unto her father, who did with her [according] to his vow which he
had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
Judges|11:40 [That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the
daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Judges|12:1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and
went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to
fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee?
we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
Judges|12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great
strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me
not out of their hands.
Judges|12:3 And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in
my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD
delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this
t against me?
Judges|12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and
fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they
said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, [and]
among the Manassites.
Judges|12:5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the
Ephraimites: and it was [so] that when those Ephraimites which were escaped
said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, [Art] thou an
Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Judges|12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said
Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took
him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of
the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Judges|12:7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the
Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
Judges|12:8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Judges|12:9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, [whom] he sent
abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he
judged Israel seven years.
Judges|12:10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
Judges|12:11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he
judged Israel ten years.
Judges|12:12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in
the country of Zebulun.
Judges|12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite,
judged Israel.
Judges|12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on
threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Judges|12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was
buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
Judges|13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of
the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines
forty years.
Judges|13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the
Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bare not.
Judges|13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said
unto her, Behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son.
Judges|13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor
strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:
Judges|13:5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the
womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
Judges|13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of
God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an
angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither
told he me his name:
Judges|13:7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a
son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean
[thing]: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day
of his death.
Judges|13:8 Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the
man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we
shall do unto the child that shall be born.
Judges|13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of
God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her
husband [was] not with her.
Judges|13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband,
and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me
the [other] day.
Judges|13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the
man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And
he said, I [am].
Judges|13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall
we order the child, and [how] shall we do unto him?
Judges|13:13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I
said unto the woman let her beware.
Judges|13:14 She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine,
neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]:
all that I commanded her let her observe.
Judges|13:15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee,
let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
Judges|13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou
detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he
[was] an angel of the LORD.
Judges|13:17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What [is] thy
name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
Judges|13:18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou
thus after my name, seeing it [is] secret?
Judges|13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it]
upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did wonderously; and Manoah and
his wife looked on.
Judges|13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven
from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the
altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on [it], and fell on their faces to
the ground.
Judges|13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and
to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he [was] an angel of the LORD.
Judges|13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because
we have seen God.
Judges|13:23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to
kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at
our hands, neither would he have showed us all these [things], nor would as
at this time have told us [such things] as these.
Judges|13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and
the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges|13:25 And the spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in
the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges|14:1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath
of the daughters of the Philistines.
Judges|14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and
said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines:
now therefore get her for me to wife.
Judges|14:3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is there]
never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people,
that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson
said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges|14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the
LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time
the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
Judges|14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion
roared against him.
Judges|14:6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he
rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but
he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges|14:7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased
Samson well.
Judges|14:8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned
aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, [there was] a swarm of
bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Judges|14:9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and
came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he
told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
Judges|14:10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made
there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Judges|14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought
thirty companions to be with him.
Judges|14:12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle
unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the
feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty
change of garments:
Judges|14:13 But if ye cannot declare [it] me, then shall ye give me
thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put
forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
Judges|14:14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat,
and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three
days expound the riddle.
Judges|14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto
Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle,
lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to
take that we have? [is it] not [so]?
Judges|14:16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but
hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children
of my people, and hast not told [it] me. And he said unto her, Behold, I
have not told [it] my father nor my mother, and shall I tell [it] thee?
Judges|14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast
lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because
she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her
people.
Judges|14:18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day
before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is]
stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my
heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Judges|14:19 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down
to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave
change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was
kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
Judges|14:20 But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had
used as his friend.
Judges|15:1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of
wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will
go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to
go in.
Judges|15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst
utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her
younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Judges|15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more
blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
Judges|15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst
between two tails.
Judges|15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go
into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks,
and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives.
Judges|15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his
wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and
burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges|15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet
will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Judges|15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and
he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Judges|15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and
spread themselves in Lehi.
Judges|15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us?
And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath
done to us.
Judges|15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the
rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are]
rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said
unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
Judges|15:12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that
we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto
them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
Judges|15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee
fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee.
And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Judges|15:14 [And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted
against him: and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the
cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire,
and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Judges|15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his
hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Judges|15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon
heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Judges|15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking,
that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place
Ramathlehi.
Judges|15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said,
Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and
now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
Judges|15:19 But God clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw, and
there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again,
and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which [is]
in Lehi unto this day.
Judges|15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty
years.
Judges|16:1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went
in unto her.
Judges|16:2 [And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come
hither. And they compassed [him] in, and laid wait for him all night in the
gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning,
when it is day, we shall kill him.
Judges|16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and
took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away
with them, bar and all, and put [them] upon his shoulders, and carried them
up to the top of an hill that [is] before Hebron.
Judges|16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the
valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.
Judges|16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said
unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by
what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict
him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of
silver.
Judges|16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein
thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict
thee.
Judges|16:7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green
withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
Judges|16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven
green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Judges|16:9 Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her in the
chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And
he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire.
So his strength was not known.
Judges|16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me,
and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be
bound.
Judges|16:11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes
that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
Judges|16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith,
and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And [there were]
liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms
like a thread.
Judges|16:13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me,
and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said
unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
Judges|16:14 And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said unto him, The
Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and
went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
Judges|16:15 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].
Judges|16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her
words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death;
Judges|16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There
hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I [have been] a Nazarite unto God
from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me,
and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.
Judges|16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart,
she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this
once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the
Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
Judges|16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a
man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she
began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Judges|16:20 And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And
he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times
before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from
him.
Judges|16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and
brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did
grind in the prison house.
Judges|16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he
was shaven.
Judges|16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together
for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for
they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Judges|16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for
they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the
destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
Judges|16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that
they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for
Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him
between the pillars.
Judges|16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand,
Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I
may lean upon them.
Judges|16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords
of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the roof about three
thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Judges|16:28 And Samson called unto 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 at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Judges|16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which
the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right
hand, and of the other with his left.
Judges|16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he
bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and
upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his
death were more than [they] which he slew in his life.
Judges|16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came
down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between Zorah and
Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel
twenty years.
Judges|17:1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was]
Micah.
Judges|17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of
silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of
also in mine ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it. And his
mother said, Blessed [be thou] of the LORD, my son.
Judges|17:3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of
silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver
unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten
image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges|17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother
took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who
made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house
of Micah.
Judges|17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod,
and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges|17:6 In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man
did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
Judges|17:7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the
family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Judges|17:8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to
sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the
house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Judges|17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said
unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I
may find [a place].
Judges|17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a
father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the
year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Judges|17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the
young man was unto him as one of his sons.
Judges|17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became
his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges|17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good,
seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.
Judges|18:1 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: and in those
days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for
unto that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the
tribes of Israel.
Judges|18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from
their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the
land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who
when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Judges|18:3 When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the voice
of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him,
Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what
hast thou here?
Judges|18:4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me,
and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
Judges|18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God,
that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Judges|18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD
[is] your way wherein ye go.
Judges|18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the
people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of
the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land,
that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the
Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.
Judges|18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and
their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
Judges|18:9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we
have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and [are] ye still? be
not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the land.
Judges|18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a
large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is]
no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.
Judges|18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites,
out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of
war.
Judges|18:12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah:
wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is]
behind Kirjathjearim.
Judges|18:13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto
the house of Micah.
Judges|18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country
of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these
houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now
therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges|18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the
young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
Judges|18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of
war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the
gate.
Judges|18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up,
[and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the
gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.
Judges|18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved
image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the
priest unto them, What do ye?
Judges|18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon
thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it]
better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a
priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Judges|18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and
the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
Judges|18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and
the cattle and the carriage before them.
Judges|18:22 [And] when they were a good way from the house of Micah,
the men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered
together, and overtook the children of Dan.
Judges|18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned
their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with
such a company?
Judges|18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and
the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this
[that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
Judges|18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be
heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life,
with the lives of thy household.
Judges|18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw
that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his
house.
Judges|18:27 And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the
priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at
quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt
the city with fire.
Judges|18:28 And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far from
Zidon, and they had no business with [any] man; and it was in the valley
that [lieth] by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
Judges|18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of
Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city
[was] Laish at the first.
Judges|18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and
Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were
priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
Judges|18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made,
all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges|19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king
in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount
Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
Judges|19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went
away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four
whole months.
Judges|19:3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly
unto her, [and] to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a
couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the
father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
Judges|19:4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him;
and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged
there.
Judges|19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early
in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said
unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and
afterward go your way.
Judges|19:6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them
together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray
thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
Judges|19:7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged
him: therefore he lodged there again.
Judges|19:8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to
depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And
they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
Judges|19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine,
and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him,
Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night:
behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be
merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Judges|19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and
departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem; and [there
were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him.
Judges|19:11 [And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent; and
the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in
into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
Judges|19:12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither
into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we
will pass over to Gibeah.
Judges|19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to
one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
Judges|19:14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went
down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which [belongeth] to Benjamin.
Judges|19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in
Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for
[there was] no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges|19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the
field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in
Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjamites.
Judges|19:17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man
in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and
whence comest thou?
Judges|19:18 And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah
toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to
Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and there
[is] no man that receiveth me to house.
Judges|19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and
there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the
young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing.
Judges|19:20 And the old man said, Peace [be] with thee; howsoever [let]
all thy wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in the street.
Judges|19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto
the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
Judges|19:22 [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the
men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and]
beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man,
saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know
him.
Judges|19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them,
and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you, do not [so]
wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
Judges|19:24 Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine;
them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what
seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Judges|19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his
concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused
her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they
let her go.
Judges|19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell
down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was
light.
Judges|19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors
of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his
concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were]
upon the threshold.
Judges|19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none
answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the man rose up, and
gat him unto his place.
Judges|19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and
laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, [together] with her bones,
into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
Judges|19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such
deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of
the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak
[your minds].
Judges|20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba,
with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
Judges|20:2 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of
Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four
hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
Judges|20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of
Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell
[us], how was this wickedness?
Judges|20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain,
answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to Benjamin, I and
my concubine, to lodge.
Judges|20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house
round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain me: and my
concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
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 lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges|20:7 Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your
advice and counsel.
Judges|20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any
[of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his house.
Judges|20:9 But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to
Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it;
Judges|20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the
tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten
thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come
to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in
Israel.
Judges|20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city,
knit together as one man.
Judges|20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?
Judges|20:13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial,
which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil
from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of
their brethren the children of Israel:
Judges|20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together
out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of
Israel.
Judges|20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out
of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the
inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Judges|20:16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not
miss.
Judges|20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four
hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.
Judges|20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house
of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first
to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah
[shall go up] first.
Judges|20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and
encamped against Gibeah.
Judges|20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin;
and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at
Gibeah.
Judges|20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two
thousand men.
Judges|20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and
set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in
array the first day.
Judges|20:23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the
LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again
to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said,
Go up against him.)
Judges|20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the children
of Benjamin the second day.
Judges|20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the
second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel
again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Judges|20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went
up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the
LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings before the LORD.
Judges|20:27 And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the
ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days,
Judges|20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood
before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle
against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD
said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
Judges|20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
Judges|20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of
Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as
at other times.
Judges|20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people,
[and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people,
[and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to
the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of
Israel.
Judges|20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down
before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee,
and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Judges|20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and
put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came
forth out of their places, [even] out of the meadows of Gibeah.
Judges|20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out
of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was]
near them.
Judges|20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children
of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and
an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges|20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for
the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto
the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
Judges|20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and
the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the
edge of the sword.
Judges|20:38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel
and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise
up out of the city.
Judges|20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin
began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for
they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first
battle.
Judges|20:40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a
pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame
of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges|20:41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of
Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
Judges|20:42 Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of
Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and
them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Judges|20:43 [Thus] they enclosed the Benjamites round about, [and]
chased them, [and] trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the
sunrising.
Judges|20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these
[were] men of valour.
Judges|20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the
rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men;
and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges|20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and
five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.
Judges|20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto
the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
Judges|20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of
Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of
[every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on
fire all the cities that they came to.
Judges|21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There
shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
Judges|21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there
till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Judges|21:3 And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in
Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Judges|21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose
early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings.
Judges|21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who [is there] among all
the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD?
For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD
to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Judges|21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their
brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Judges|21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we
have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to
wives?
Judges|21:8 And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel
that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the
camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
Judges|21:9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were] none
of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Judges|21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of
the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges|21:11 And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly
destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Judges|21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four
hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and
they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in the land of
Canaan.
Judges|21:13 And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the
children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably
unto them.
Judges|21:14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them
wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so
they sufficed them not.
Judges|21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges|21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do
for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?
Judges|21:17 And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them that
be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Judges|21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for
the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that giveth a
wife to Benjamin.
Judges|21:19 Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in
Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side of Bethel, on the
east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the
south of Lebonah.
Judges|21:20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying,
Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
Judges|21:21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out
to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every
man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Judges|21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come
unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them
for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for
ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.
Judges|21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives,
according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they
went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and
dwelt in them.
Judges|21:24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time,
every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence
every man to his inheritance.
Judges|21:25 In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did
[that which was] right in his own eyes.
Ruth|1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that
there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to
sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth|1:2 And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of his
wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of
Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued
there.
Ruth|1:3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her
two sons.
Ruth|1:4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the
one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there
about ten years.
Ruth|1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman
was left of her two sons and her husband.
Ruth|1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return
from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that
the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
Ruth|1:7 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.
Ruth|1:8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each
to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with
the dead, and with me.
Ruth|1:9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you] in the
house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice,
and wept.
Ruth|1:10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto
thy people.
Ruth|1:11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with
me? [are] there yet [any more] sons in my womb, that they may be your
husbands?
Ruth|1:12 Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to
have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an
husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Ruth|1:13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay
for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much
for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
Ruth|1:14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah
kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
Ruth|1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her
people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
Ruth|1:16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, [or] to return
from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where
thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people [shall be] my people, and thy God my
God:
Ruth|1:17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the
LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.
Ruth|1:18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her,
then she left speaking unto her.
Ruth|1:19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to
pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about
them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?
Ruth|1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for
the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Ruth|1:21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again
empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against
me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth|1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in
law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to
Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Ruth|2:1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of
wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz.
Ruth|2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the
field, and glean ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find
grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
Ruth|2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the
reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field [belonging] unto
Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech.
Ruth|2:4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the
reapers, The LORD [be] with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless
thee.
Ruth|2:5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers,
Whose damsel [is] this?
Ruth|2:6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and
said, It [is] the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the
country of Moab:
Ruth|2:7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the
reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the
morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
Ruth|2:8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not
to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my
maidens:
Ruth|2:9 [Let] thine eyes [be] on the field that they do reap, and go
thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch
thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of [that]
which the young men have drawn.
Ruth|2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou
shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a stranger?
Ruth|2:11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed
me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine
husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land
of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not
heretofore.
Ruth|2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee
of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Ruth|2:13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for
that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto
thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
Ruth|2:14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat
of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the
reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat, and was
sufficed, and left.
Ruth|2:15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young
men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
Ruth|2:16 And let fall also [some] of the handfuls of purpose for her,
and leave [them], that she may glean [them], and rebuke her not.
Ruth|2:17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she
had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth|2:18 And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother
in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her
that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
Ruth|2:19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned
to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of
thee. And she showed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said,
The man's name with whom I wrought to day [is] Boaz.
Ruth|2:20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed [be] he of
the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.
And Naomi said unto her, The man [is] near of kin unto us, one of our next
kinsmen.
Ruth|2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt
keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Ruth|2:22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, [It is] good, my
daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any
other field.
Ruth|2:23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end
of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
Ruth|3:1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall
I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
Ruth|3:2 And now [is] not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou
wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
Ruth|3:3 Wash thy self therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment
upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known
unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
Ruth|3:4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the
place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and
lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
Ruth|3:5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
Ruth|3:6 And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that
her mother in law bade her.
Ruth|3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he
went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and
uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
Ruth|3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and
turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Ruth|3:9 And he said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth
thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou
[art] a near kinsman.
Ruth|3:10 And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for]
thou hast showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning,
inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
Ruth|3:11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that
thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou [art] a
virtuous woman.
Ruth|3:12 And now it is true that I [am thy] near kinsman: howbeit there
is a kinsman nearer than I.
Ruth|3:13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he
will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the
kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then
will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down
until the morning.
Ruth|3:14 And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up
before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a
woman came into the floor.
Ruth|3:15 Also he said, Bring the veil that [thou hast] upon thee, and
hold it. And when she held it, he measured six [measures] of barley, and
laid [it] on her: and she went into the city.
Ruth|3:16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who [art]
thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.
Ruth|3:17 And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for
he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
Ruth|3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the
matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished
the thing this day.
Ruth|4:1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and,
behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such
a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
Ruth|4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye
down here. And they sat down.
Ruth|4:3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of
the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother
Elimelech's:
Ruth|4:4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the
inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it],
redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may
know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] beside thee; and I [am] after
thee. And he said, I will redeem [it].
Ruth|4:5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of
Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead,
to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Ruth|4:6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I
mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot
redeem [it].
Ruth|4:7 Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel concerning
redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked
off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbour: and this [was] a testimony in
Israel.
Ruth|4:8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy [it] for thee. So he
drew off his shoe.
Ruth|4:9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people, Ye
[are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that [was] Elimelech's,
and all that [was] Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
Ruth|4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I
purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his
inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his
brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.
Ruth|4:11 And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders,
said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine
house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel:
and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
Ruth|4:12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare
unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.
Ruth|4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in
unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ruth|4:14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which
hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous
in Israel.
Ruth|4:15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a
nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee,
which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
Ruth|4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became
nurse unto it.
Ruth|4:17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is
a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he [is] the father of
Jesse, the father of David.
Ruth|4:18 Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat
Hezron,
Ruth|4:19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
Ruth|4:20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
Ruth|4:21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Ruth|4:22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Samuel-1|1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount
Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu,
the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
Samuel-1|1:2 And he had two wives; the name of the one [was] Hannah, and
the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had
no children.
Samuel-1|1:3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and
to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.
Samuel-1|1:4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to
Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
Samuel-1|1:5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved
Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
Samuel-1|1:6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her
fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Samuel-1|1:7 And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the
house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not
eat.
Samuel-1|1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest
thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I
better to thee than ten sons?
Samuel-1|1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after
they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple
of the LORD.
Samuel-1|1:10 And she [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the
LORD, and wept sore.
Samuel-1|1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou
wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and
not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child,
then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there
shall no razor come upon his head.
Samuel-1|1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the
LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
Samuel-1|1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved,
but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
Samuel-1|1:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put
away thy wine from thee.
Samuel-1|1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman
of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have
poured out my soul before the LORD.
Samuel-1|1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out
of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
Samuel-1|1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of
Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
Samuel-1|1:18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight.
So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more
[sad].
Samuel-1|1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped
before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and
Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
Samuel-1|1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about
after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name
Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.
Samuel-1|1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer
unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
Samuel-1|1:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, [I
will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will bring him,
that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
Samuel-1|1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth
thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his
word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
Samuel-1|1:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her,
with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and
brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child [was]
young.
Samuel-1|1:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
Samuel-1|1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I
[am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my
petition which I asked of him:
Samuel-1|1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he
liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
Samuel-1|2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the
LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine
enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
Samuel-1|2:2 [There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none
beside thee: neither [is there] any rock like our God.
Samuel-1|2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogancy come
out of your mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions
are weighed.
Samuel-1|2:4 The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that
stumbled are girded with strength.
Samuel-1|2:5 [They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread;
and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and
she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Samuel-1|2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the
grave, and bringeth up.
Samuel-1|2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and
lifteth up.
Samuel-1|2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up
the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them
inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD's,
and he hath set the world upon them.
Samuel-1|2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall
be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
Samuel-1|2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out
of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the
earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his
anointed.
Samuel-1|2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did
minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
Samuel-1|2:12 Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew not
the LORD.
Samuel-1|2:13 And the priests' custom with the people [was, that], when
any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was
in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
Samuel-1|2:14 And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or
pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they
did in Shiloh, unto all the Israelites that came thither.
Samuel-1|2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came,
and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest;
for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
Samuel-1|2:16 And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn
the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul desireth; then he
would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I
will take [it] by force.
Samuel-1|2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before
the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
Samuel-1|2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child,
girded with a linen ephod.
Samuel-1|2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought
[it] to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer
the yearly sacrifice.
Samuel-1|2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD
give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And
they went unto their own home.
Samuel-1|2:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and
bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the
LORD.
Samuel-1|2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto
all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled [at] the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
Samuel-1|2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear
of your evil dealings by all this people.
Samuel-1|2:24 Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye
make the LORD's people to transgress.
Samuel-1|2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him:
but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because
the LORD would slay them.
Samuel-1|2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with
the LORD, and also with men.
Samuel-1|2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father,
when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
Samuel-1|2:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel [to
be] my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod
before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings
made by fire of the children of Israel?
Samuel-1|2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering,
which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me,
to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my
people?
Samuel-1|2:30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed
[that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for
ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I
will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Samuel-1|2:31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and
the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine
house.
Samuel-1|2:32 And thou shalt see an enemy [in my] habitation, in all
[the wealth] which [God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old
man in thine house for ever.
Samuel-1|2:33 And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from mine
altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all
the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
Samuel-1|2:34 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come upon
thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of
them.
Samuel-1|2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, [that] shall do
according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and I will
build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
Samuel-1|2:36 And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left
in thine house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver and a
morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the
priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Samuel-1|3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli.
And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; [there was] no open
vision.
Samuel-1|3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down
in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not see;
Samuel-1|3:3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD,
where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];
Samuel-1|3:4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I.
Samuel-1|3:5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou
calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay
down.
Samuel-1|3:6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And he
answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
Samuel-1|3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word
of the LORD yet revealed unto him.
Samuel-1|3:8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he
arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And
Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
Samuel-1|3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall
be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant
heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
Samuel-1|3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other
times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant
heareth.
Samuel-1|3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in
Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Samuel-1|3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all [things] which
I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
Samuel-1|3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever
for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile,
and he restrained them not.
Samuel-1|3:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for
ever.
Samuel-1|3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of
the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
Samuel-1|3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he
answered, Here [am] I.
Samuel-1|3:17 And he said, What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath said
unto thee? I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God do so to thee, and more
also, if thou hide [any] thing from me of all the things that he said unto
thee.
Samuel-1|3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him.
And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
Samuel-1|3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let
none of his words fall to the ground.
Samuel-1|3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel
[was] established [to be] a prophet of the LORD.
Samuel-1|3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD
revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
Samuel-1|4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went
out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the
Philistines pitched in Aphek.
Samuel-1|4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel:
and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and
they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
Samuel-1|4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of
Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the
Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh
unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of
our enemies.
Samuel-1|4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from
thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth
[between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,
[were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Samuel-1|4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the
camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
Samuel-1|4:6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they
said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in the camp of the
Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the
camp.
Samuel-1|4:7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come
into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a
thing heretofore.
Samuel-1|4:8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these
mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the
plagues in the wilderness.
Samuel-1|4:9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines,
that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit
yourselves like men, and fight.
Samuel-1|4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and
they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter;
for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
Samuel-1|4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
Samuel-1|4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came
to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
Samuel-1|4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came
into the city, and told [it], all the city cried out.
Samuel-1|4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What
[meaneth] the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told
Eli.
Samuel-1|4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were
dim, that he could not see.
Samuel-1|4:16 And the man said unto Eli, I [am] he that came out of the
army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done,
my son?
Samuel-1|4:17 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.
Samuel-1|4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of
God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and
his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had
judged Israel forty years.
Samuel-1|4:19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child,
[near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God
was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed
herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
Samuel-1|4:20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by
her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she answered
not, neither did she regard [it].
Samuel-1|4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is
departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her
father in law and her husband.
Samuel-1|4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the
ark of God is taken.
Samuel-1|5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it
from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
Samuel-1|5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it
into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
Samuel-1|5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold,
Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.
And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
Samuel-1|5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold,
Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD;
and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [were] cut off upon
the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.
Samuel-1|5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come
into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this
day.
Samuel-1|5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and
he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod and the
coasts thereof.
Samuel-1|5:7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they said,
The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore
upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
Samuel-1|5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the
Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God
of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried
about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about
[thither].
Samuel-1|5:9 And it was [so], that, after they had carried it about, the
hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he
smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in
their secret parts.
Samuel-1|5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came
to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out,
saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay
us and our people.
Samuel-1|5:11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it
go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there
was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very
heavy there.
Samuel-1|5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods:
and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Samuel-1|6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the
Philistines seven months.
Samuel-1|6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the
diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us
wherewith we shall send it to his place.
Samuel-1|6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of
Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering:
then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not
removed from you.
Samuel-1|6:4 Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering which
we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden
mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one
plague [was] on you all, and on your lords.
Samuel-1|6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images
of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of
Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off
your gods, and from off your land.
Samuel-1|6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians
and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among
them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Samuel-1|6:7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on
which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring
their calves home from them:
Samuel-1|6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and
put the jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass offering, in a
coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
Samuel-1|6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we
shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it [was] a chance
[that] happened to us.
Samuel-1|6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them
to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
Samuel-1|6:11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the
coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
Samuel-1|6:12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of
Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned
not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the
Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
Samuel-1|6:13 And [they of] Bethshemesh [were] reaping their wheat
harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and
rejoiced to see [it].
Samuel-1|6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite,
and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave the wood
of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|6:15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the
coffer that [was] with it, wherein the jewels of gold [were], and put
[them] on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen [it],
they returned to Ekron the same day.
Samuel-1|6:17 And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines
returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza
one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
Samuel-1|6:18 And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the
cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fenced
cities, and of country villages, even unto the great [stone of] Abel,
whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto
this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
Samuel-1|6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had
looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand
and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had
smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.
Samuel-1|6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand
before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
Samuel-1|6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of
Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the
LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to you.
Samuel-1|7:1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark
of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
Samuel-1|7:2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim,
that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of
Israel lamented after the LORD.
Samuel-1|7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If
ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then] put away the
strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the
LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
Samuel-1|7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and
Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
Samuel-1|7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will
pray for you unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and
poured [it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We
have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in
Mizpeh.
Samuel-1|7:7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel
were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up
against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard [it], they were
afraid of the Philistines.
Samuel-1|7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry
unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.
Samuel-1|7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a
burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for
Israel; and the LORD heard him.
Samuel-1|7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the
Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with
a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and
they were smitten before Israel.
Samuel-1|7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Bethcar.
Samuel-1|7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and
Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD
helped us.
Samuel-1|7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more
into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.
Samuel-1|7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel
were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof
did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
Samuel-1|7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
Samuel-1|7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and
Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
Samuel-1|7:17 And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house;
and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his
sons judges over Israel.
Samuel-1|8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beersheba.
Samuel-1|8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after
lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
Samuel-1|8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together,
and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
Samuel-1|8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk
not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Samuel-1|8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a
king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of
the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee,
but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Samuel-1|8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the
day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they
have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
Samuel-1|8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that shall reign
over them.
Samuel-1|8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people
that asked of him a king.
Samuel-1|8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that
shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for
himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run
before his chariots.
Samuel-1|8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and
captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap
his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his
chariots.
Samuel-1|8:13 And he will take your daughters [to be] confectionaries,
and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.
Samuel-1|8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.
Samuel-1|8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Samuel-1|8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants,
and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.
Samuel-1|8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
servants.
Samuel-1|8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king
which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Samuel-1|8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of
Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
Samuel-1|8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our
king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Samuel-1|8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he
rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
Samuel-1|8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and
make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man
unto his city.
Samuel-1|9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name [was] Kish, the
son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a
Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
Samuel-1|9:2 And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young
man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of Israel a
goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was] higher than
any of the people.
Samuel-1|9:3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish
said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go
seek the asses.
Samuel-1|9:4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the
land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed through the
land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land
of the Benjamites, but they found [them] not.
Samuel-1|9:5 [And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to
his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father
leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.
Samuel-1|9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, [there is] in this city a
man of God, and [he is] an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely
to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we
should go.
Samuel-1|9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, [if] we go,
what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and
[there is] not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
Samuel-1|9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I
have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give
to the man of God, to tell us our way.
Samuel-1|9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God,
thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now
[called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
Samuel-1|9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
So they went unto the city where the man of God [was].
Samuel-1|9:11 [And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found
young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer
here?
Samuel-1|9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is]
before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is]
a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
Samuel-1|9:13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway
find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not
eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards
they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye
shall find him.
Samuel-1|9:14 And they went up into the city: [and] when they were come
into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the
high place.
Samuel-1|9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul
came, saying,
Samuel-1|9:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of
the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my
people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the
Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come
unto me.
Samuel-1|9:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold
the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
Samuel-1|9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell
me, I pray thee, where the seer's house [is].
Samuel-1|9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up
before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to
morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thine heart.
Samuel-1|9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set
not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom [is] all the desire
of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
Samuel-1|9:21 And Saul answered and said, [Am] not I a Benjamite, of the
smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the
families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
Samuel-1|9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them
into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that
were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.
Samuel-1|9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I
gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
Samuel-1|9:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and [that] which [was]
upon it, and set [it] before Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold that which is
left! set [it] before thee, [and] eat: for unto this time hath it been kept
for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with
Samuel that day.
Samuel-1|9:25 And when they were come down from the high place into the
city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
Samuel-1|9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring
of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up,
that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them,
he and Samuel, abroad.
Samuel-1|9:27 [And] as they were going down to the end of the city,
Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,)
but stand thou still a while, that I may show thee the word of God.
Samuel-1|10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] upon his
head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath anointed
thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?
Samuel-1|10:2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt
find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and
they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found:
and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you,
saying, What shall I do for my son?
Samuel-1|10:3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt
come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to
God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves
of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
Samuel-1|10:4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves] of
bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
Samuel-1|10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is]
the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art
come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming
down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a
harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
Samuel-1|10:6 And the spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou
shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
Samuel-1|10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, [that]
thou do as occasion serve thee; for God [is] with thee.
Samuel-1|10:8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I
will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to sacrifice
sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to
thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.
Samuel-1|10:9 And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to go
from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass
that day.
Samuel-1|10:10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company
of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied
among them.
Samuel-1|10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime
saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said
one to another, What [is] this [that] is come unto the son of Kish? [Is]
Saul also among the prophets?
Samuel-1|10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who [is]
their father? Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the
prophets?
Samuel-1|10:13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to
the high place.
Samuel-1|10:14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant,
Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that [they
were] no where, we came to Samuel.
Samuel-1|10:15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel
said unto you.
Samuel-1|10:16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the
asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake,
he told him not.
Samuel-1|10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to
Mizpeh;
Samuel-1|10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of
the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, [and] of
them that oppressed you:
Samuel-1|10:19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved
you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said
unto him, [Nay], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves
before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
Samuel-1|10:20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to
come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
Samuel-1|10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by
their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was
taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
Samuel-1|10:22 Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the man
should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself
among the stuff.
Samuel-1|10:23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood
among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders
and upward.
Samuel-1|10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the
LORD hath chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people? And
all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
Samuel-1|10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom,
and wrote [it] in a book, and laid [it] up before the LORD. And Samuel sent
all the people away, every man to his house.
Samuel-1|10:26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with
him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
Samuel-1|10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save
us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his
peace.
Samuel-1|11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against
Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant
with us, and we will serve thee.
Samuel-1|11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition]
will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your right
eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.
Samuel-1|11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven
days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel:
and then, if [there be] no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
Samuel-1|11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the
tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their
voices, and wept.
Samuel-1|11:5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field;
and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they told him
the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
Samuel-1|11:6 And the spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those
tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
Samuel-1|11:7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and
sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers,
saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it
be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and
they came out with one consent.
Samuel-1|11:8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel
were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
Samuel-1|11:9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye
say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by [that time] the sun be hot,
ye shall have help. And the messengers came and showed [it] to the men of
Jabesh; and they were glad.
Samuel-1|11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come
out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
Samuel-1|11:11 And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul put the people
in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning
watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to
pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not
left together.
Samuel-1|11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who [is] he that said,
Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
Samuel-1|11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this
day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
Samuel-1|11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to
Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
Samuel-1|11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made
Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices
of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of
Israel rejoiced greatly.
Samuel-1|12:1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened
unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
Samuel-1|12:2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old
and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked
before you from my childhood unto this day.
Samuel-1|12:3 Behold, here I [am]: witness 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 of whose hand have I
received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it
you.
Samuel-1|12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed
us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
Samuel-1|12:5 And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you,
and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my
hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.
Samuel-1|12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, [It is] the LORD that
advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land
of Egypt.
Samuel-1|12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you
before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you
and to your fathers.
Samuel-1|12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried
unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your
fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
Samuel-1|12:9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into
the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the
Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against
them.
Samuel-1|12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned,
because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth:
but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
Samuel-1|12:11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and
Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side,
and ye dwelled safe.
Samuel-1|12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over
us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.
Samuel-1|12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, [and]
whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
Samuel-1|12:14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his
voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both
ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD
your God:
Samuel-1|12:15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel
against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be
against you, as [it was] against your fathers.
Samuel-1|12:16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the
LORD will do before your eyes.
Samuel-1|12:17 [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the
LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that
your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in
asking you a king.
Samuel-1|12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder
and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Samuel-1|12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy
servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all
our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
Samuel-1|12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done
all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve
the LORD with all your heart;
Samuel-1|12:21 And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain
[things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
Samuel-1|12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great
name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
Samuel-1|12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against
the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the
right way:
Samuel-1|12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your
heart; for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.
Samuel-1|12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed,
both ye and your king.
Samuel-1|13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years
over Israel,
Samuel-1|13:2 Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof]
two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand
were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he
sent every man to his tent.
Samuel-1|13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that
[was] in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
Samuel-1|13:4 And all Israel heard say [that] Saul had smitten a
garrison of the Philistines, and [that] Israel also was had in abomination
with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to
Gilgal.
Samuel-1|13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight
with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came
up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
Samuel-1|13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait,
(for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
Samuel-1|13:7 And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of
Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal, and all the people
followed him trembling.
Samuel-1|13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that
Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
scattered from him.
Samuel-1|13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and
peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
Samuel-1|13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to
meet him, that he might salute him.
Samuel-1|13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said,
Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] thou
camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines gathered
themselves together at Michmash;
Samuel-1|13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon
me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced
myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
Samuel-1|13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou
hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee:
for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
Samuel-1|13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath
sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to
be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the
LORD commanded thee.
Samuel-1|13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah
of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with him,
about six hundred men.
Samuel-1|13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that
were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines
encamped in Michmash.
Samuel-1|13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines
in three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leadeth to]
Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
Samuel-1|13:18 And another company turned the way [to] Bethhoron: and
another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the
valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Samuel-1|13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or
spears:
Samuel-1|13:20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock.
Samuel-1|13:21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the
coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
Samuel-1|13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were]
with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there
found.
Samuel-1|13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the
passage of Michmash.
Samuel-1|14:1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of
Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over
to the Philistines' garrison, that [is] on the other side. But he told not
his father.
Samuel-1|14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him
[were] about six hundred men;
Samuel-1|14:3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son
of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod.
And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
Samuel-1|14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go
over unto the Philistines' garrison, [there was] a sharp rock on the one
side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one [was]
Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
Samuel-1|14:5 The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over
against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
Samuel-1|14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour,
Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may
be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD
to save by many or by few.
Samuel-1|14:7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in
thine heart: turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart.
Samuel-1|14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto [these]
men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
Samuel-1|14:9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then
we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
Samuel-1|14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go
up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this [shall be] a
sign unto us.
Samuel-1|14:11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison
of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come
forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
Samuel-1|14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his
armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And
Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath
delivered them into the hand of Israel.
Samuel-1|14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet,
and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his
armourbearer slew after him.
Samuel-1|14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his
armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of
land, [which] a yoke [of oxen might plow].
Samuel-1|14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and
among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled,
and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
Samuel-1|14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked;
and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one
another].
Samuel-1|14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that [were] with him,
Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered,
behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer [were] not [there].
Samuel-1|14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God.
For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
Samuel-1|14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest,
that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and
increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
Samuel-1|14:20 And Saul and all the people that [were] with him
assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's
sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great discomfiture.
Samuel-1|14:21 Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines
before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country]
round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites that [were]
with Saul and Jonathan.
Samuel-1|14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves
in mount Ephraim, [when] they heard that the Philistines fled, even they
also followed hard after them in the battle.
Samuel-1|14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed
over unto Bethaven.
Samuel-1|14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul
had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food
until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people
tasted [any] food.
Samuel-1|14:25 And all [they of] the land came to a wood; and there was
honey upon the ground.
Samuel-1|14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the
honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared
the oath.
Samuel-1|14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people
with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his
hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his
eyes were enlightened.
Samuel-1|14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father
straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that
eateth [any] food this day. And the people were faint.
Samuel-1|14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land:
see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a
little of this honey.
Samuel-1|14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to
day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been
now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
Samuel-1|14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
Samuel-1|14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and
oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat
[them] with the blood.
Samuel-1|14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin
against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have
transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
Samuel-1|14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and
say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep,
and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with
the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night,
and slew [them] there.
Samuel-1|14:35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the
first altar that he built unto the LORD.
Samuel-1|14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by
night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man
of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
Samuel-1|14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
answered him not that day.
Samuel-1|14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the
people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
Samuel-1|14:39 For, [as] the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it
be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among
all the people [that] answered him.
Samuel-1|14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I
and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto
Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
Samuel-1|14:41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a
perfect [lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
Samuel-1|14:42 And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken.
Samuel-1|14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done.
And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the
end of the rod that [was] in mine hand, [and], lo, I must die.
Samuel-1|14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou
shalt surely die, Jonathan.
Samuel-1|14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who
hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD
liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he
hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he
died not.
Samuel-1|14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
Philistines went to their own place.
Samuel-1|14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against
all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of
Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the
Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed [them].
Samuel-1|14:48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and
delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
Samuel-1|14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and
Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters [were these]; the name of
the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
Samuel-1|14:50 And the name of Saul's wife [was] Ahinoam, the daughter
of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host [was] Abner, the son of
Ner, Saul's uncle.
Samuel-1|14:51 And Kish [was] the father of Saul; and Ner the father of
Abner [was] the son of Abiel.
Samuel-1|14:52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the
days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took
him unto him.
Samuel-1|15:1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint
thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou
unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
Samuel-1|15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which
Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way, when he came
up from Egypt.
Samuel-1|15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling,
ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Samuel-1|15:4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them
in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Samuel-1|15:5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the
valley.
Samuel-1|15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down
from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed
kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So
the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Samuel-1|15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah [until] thou
comest to Shur, that [is] over against Egypt.
Samuel-1|15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and
utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Samuel-1|15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the
sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that
was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was]
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Samuel-1|15:10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
Samuel-1|15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for
he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my
commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Samuel-1|15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning,
it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up
a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
Samuel-1|15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed
[be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
Samuel-1|15:14 And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the
sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
Samuel-1|15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the
Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to
sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Samuel-1|15:16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee
what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
Samuel-1|15:17 And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thine own
sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the
LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
Samuel-1|15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and
utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until
they be consumed.
Samuel-1|15:19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD,
but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
Samuel-1|15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice
of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought
Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
Samuel-1|15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the
chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice
unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
Samuel-1|15:22 And Samuel said, Hath 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.
Samuel-1|15:23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and
stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the
word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.
Samuel-1|15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared
the people, and obeyed their voice.
Samuel-1|15:25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again
with me, that I may worship the LORD.
Samuel-1|15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee:
for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected
thee from being king over Israel.
Samuel-1|15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon
the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
Samuel-1|15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom
of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine,
[that is] better than thou.
Samuel-1|15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent:
for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.
Samuel-1|15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour me now, I pray
thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again
with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
Samuel-1|15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped
the LORD.
Samuel-1|15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of
the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely
the bitterness of death is past.
Samuel-1|15:33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless,
so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in
pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Samuel-1|15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house
to Gibeah of Saul.
Samuel-1|15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his
death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he
had made Saul king over Israel.
Samuel-1|16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn
for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine
horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I
have provided me a king among his sons.
Samuel-1|16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear [it], he will
kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to
sacrifice to the LORD.
Samuel-1|16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what
thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me [him] whom I name unto thee.
Samuel-1|16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to
Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said,
Comest thou peaceably?
Samuel-1|16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the
LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he
sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
Samuel-1|16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked
on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed [is] before him.
Samuel-1|16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his
countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him:
for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward
appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
Samuel-1|16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before
Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
Samuel-1|16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither
hath the LORD chosen this.
Samuel-1|16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before
Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
Samuel-1|16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all [thy] children?
And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the
sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit
down till he come hither.
Samuel-1|16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he [was] ruddy,
[and] withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the
LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this [is] he.
Samuel-1|16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the LORD came upon David from that
day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
Samuel-1|16:14 But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an
evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
Samuel-1|16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil
spirit from God troubleth thee.
Samuel-1|16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are] before
thee, to seek out a man, [who is] a cunning player on an harp: and it shall
come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall
play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
Samuel-1|16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man
that can play well, and bring [him] to me.
Samuel-1|16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I
have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing,
and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a
comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.
Samuel-1|16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send
me David thy son, which [is] with the sheep.
Samuel-1|16:20 And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a bottle of
wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son unto Saul.
Samuel-1|16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he
loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
Samuel-1|16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee,
stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
Samuel-1|16:23 And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was
upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was
refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Samuel-1|17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to
battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which [belongeth] to Judah,
and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
Samuel-1|17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and
pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
Philistines.
Samuel-1|17:3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side,
and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and [there was] a valley
between them.
Samuel-1|17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the
Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a
span.
Samuel-1|17:5 And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he
[was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five
thousand shekels of brass.
Samuel-1|17:6 And [he had] greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target
of brass between his shoulders.
Samuel-1|17:7 And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam; and
his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a
shield went before him.
Samuel-1|17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said
unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a
Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him
come down to me.
Samuel-1|17:9 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.
Samuel-1|17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this
day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Samuel-1|17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the
Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
Samuel-1|17:12 Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of
Bethlehemjudah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man
went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul.
Samuel-1|17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went [and] followed
Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle
[were] Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third
Shammah.
Samuel-1|17:14 And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest
followed Saul.
Samuel-1|17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his
father's sheep at Bethlehem.
Samuel-1|17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and
presented himself forty days.
Samuel-1|17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy
brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to
the camp to thy brethren;
Samuel-1|17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of [their]
thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
Samuel-1|17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were] in
the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
Samuel-1|17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the
sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he
came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted
for the battle.
Samuel-1|17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in
array, army against army.
Samuel-1|17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of
the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
Samuel-1|17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the
champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard [them].
Samuel-1|17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled
from him, and were sore afraid.
Samuel-1|17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is
come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, [that] the
man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will
give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
Samuel-1|17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying,
What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away
the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that
he should defy the armies of the living God?
Samuel-1|17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So
shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
Samuel-1|17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the
men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest
thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the
wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou
art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
Samuel-1|17:29 And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a
cause?
Samuel-1|17:30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after
the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
Samuel-1|17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they
rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him.
Samuel-1|17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because
of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
Samuel-1|17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against
this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man
of war from his youth.
Samuel-1|17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's
sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
Samuel-1|17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered
[it] out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught [him] by his
beard, and smote him, and slew him.
Samuel-1|17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the
armies of the living God.
Samuel-1|17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of
the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out
of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD
be with thee.
Samuel-1|17:38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an
helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
Samuel-1|17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he
assayed to go; for he had not proved [it]. And David said unto Saul, I
cannot go with these; for I have not proved [them]. And David put them off
him.
Samuel-1|17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five
smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he
had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to
the Philistine.
Samuel-1|17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and
the man that bare the shield [went] before him.
Samuel-1|17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he
disdained him: for he was [but] a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair
countenance.
Samuel-1|17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, [Am] I a dog, that
thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
Samuel-1|17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will
give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
Samuel-1|17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with
a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the
name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast
defied.
Samuel-1|17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I
will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the
carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air,
and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there
is a God in Israel.
Samuel-1|17:47 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.
Samuel-1|17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came
and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to
meet the Philistine.
Samuel-1|17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a
stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the
stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Samuel-1|17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and
with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but [there was] no
sword in the hand of David.
Samuel-1|17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and
took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and
cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was
dead, they fled.
Samuel-1|17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted,
and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the
gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to
Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
Samuel-1|17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after
the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
Samuel-1|17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it
to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
Samuel-1|17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine,
he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son [is] this
youth? And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
Samuel-1|17:56 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling
[is].
Samuel-1|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.
Samuel-1|17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son [art] thou, [thou] young
man? And David answered, I [am] the son of thy servant Jesse the
Bethlehemite.
Samuel-1|18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking
unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Samuel-1|18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more
home to his father's house.
Samuel-1|18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved
him as his own soul.
Samuel-1|18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was] upon
him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his
bow, and to his girdle.
Samuel-1|18:5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, [and]
behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was
accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's
servants.
Samuel-1|18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned
from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities
of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy,
and with instruments of music.
Samuel-1|18:7 And the women answered [one another] as they played, and
said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Samuel-1|18:8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him;
and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they
have ascribed [but] thousands: and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?
Samuel-1|18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
Samuel-1|18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit
from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and
David played with his hand, as at other times: and [there was] a javelin in
Saul's hand.
Samuel-1|18:11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite
David even to the wall [with it]. And David avoided out of his presence
twice.
Samuel-1|18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with
him, and was departed from Saul.
Samuel-1|18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his
captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
Samuel-1|18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the
LORD [was] with him.
Samuel-1|18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very
wisely, he was afraid of him.
Samuel-1|18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out
and came in before them.
Samuel-1|18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab,
her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the
LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the
hand of the Philistines be upon him.
Samuel-1|18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who [am] I? and what [is] my
life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the
king?
Samuel-1|18:19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's
daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel
the Meholathite to wife.
Samuel-1|18:20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told
Saul, and the thing pleased him.
Samuel-1|18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a
snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the
one of] the twain.
Samuel-1|18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with
David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his
servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
Samuel-1|18:23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of
David. And David said, Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's
son in law, seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
Samuel-1|18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner
spake David.
Samuel-1|18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king
desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be
avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the
hand of the Philistines.
Samuel-1|18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased
David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
Samuel-1|18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew
of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and
they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in
law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
Samuel-1|18:28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] with David, and
[that] Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
Samuel-1|18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul
became David's enemy continually.
Samuel-1|18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it
came to pass, after they went forth, [that] David behaved himself more
wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
Samuel-1|19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his
servants, that they should kill David.
Samuel-1|19:2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and
Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now
therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide
in a secret [place], and hide thyself:
Samuel-1|19:3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field
where thou [art], and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I
see, that I will tell thee.
Samuel-1|19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and
said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have been]
to thee-ward very good:
Samuel-1|19:5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the
Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou
sawest [it], and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
Samuel-1|19:6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul
sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
Samuel-1|19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all
those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his
presence, as in times past.
Samuel-1|19:8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought
with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled
from him.
Samuel-1|19:9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat
in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with [his]
hand.
Samuel-1|19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the
javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the
javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
Samuel-1|19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch
him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him,
saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
Samuel-1|19:12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went,
and fled, and escaped.
Samuel-1|19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and
put a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a
cloth.
Samuel-1|19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He
[is] sick.
Samuel-1|19:15 And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David,
saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
Samuel-1|19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was]
an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster.
Samuel-1|19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so,
and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He
said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
Samuel-1|19:18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah,
and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and
dwelt in Naioth.
Samuel-1|19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at
Naioth in Ramah.
Samuel-1|19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw
the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed
over them, the spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also
prophesied.
Samuel-1|19:21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and
they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time,
and they prophesied also.
Samuel-1|19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that
[is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David? And
[one] said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah.
Samuel-1|19:23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the spirit of
God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to
Naioth in Ramah.
Samuel-1|19:24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied
before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that
night. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?
Samuel-1|20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said
before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what [is]
my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
Samuel-1|20:2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die:
behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will
show it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it [is] not
[so].
Samuel-1|20:3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly
knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not
Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD liveth, and
[as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a step between me and death.
Samuel-1|20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul
desireth, I will even do [it] for thee.
Samuel-1|20:5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the
new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me
go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day] at even.
Samuel-1|20:6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly
asked [leave] of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for [there is]
a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
Samuel-1|20:7 If he say thus, [It is] well; thy servant shall have
peace: but if he be very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is determined by
him.
Samuel-1|20:8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for
thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee:
notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why
shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
Samuel-1|20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew
certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then
would not I tell it thee?
Samuel-1|20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what
[if] thy father answer thee roughly?
Samuel-1|20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out
into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
Samuel-1|20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when
I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, [or] the third [day],
and, behold, [if there be] good toward David, and I then send not unto
thee, and show it thee;
Samuel-1|20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it
please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will show it thee, and send thee
away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath
been with my father.
Samuel-1|20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the
kindness of the LORD, that I die not:
Samuel-1|20:15 But [also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my
house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David
every one from the face of the earth.
Samuel-1|20:16 So Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David,
[saying], Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies.
Samuel-1|20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he
loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Samuel-1|20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow [is] the new moon:
and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
Samuel-1|20:19 And [when] thou hast stayed three days, [then] thou shalt
go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when
the business was [in hand], and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
Samuel-1|20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side [thereof], as
though I shot at a mark.
Samuel-1|20:21 And, behold, I will send a lad, [saying], Go, find out
the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows [are] on
this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is] peace to thee,
and no hurt; [as] the LORD liveth.
Samuel-1|20:22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows
[are] beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
Samuel-1|20:23 And [as touching] the matter which thou and I have spoken
of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and me for ever.
Samuel-1|20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon
was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
Samuel-1|20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, [even]
upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side,
and David's place was empty.
Samuel-1|20:26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he
thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely he [is] not
clean.
Samuel-1|20:27 And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the second
[day] of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto
Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither
yesterday, nor to day?
Samuel-1|20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked [leave]
of me [to go] to Bethlehem:
Samuel-1|20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath
a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be
there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I
pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's
table.
Samuel-1|20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he
said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious [woman], do not I know
that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the
confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
Samuel-1|20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground,
thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and
fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
Samuel-1|20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
Samuel-1|20:33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby
Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
Samuel-1|20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did
eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David,
because his father had done him shame.
Samuel-1|20:35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went
out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with
him.
Samuel-1|20:36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows
which I shoot. [And] as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
Samuel-1|20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which
Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [Is] not the
arrow beyond thee?
Samuel-1|20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay
not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
Samuel-1|20:39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David
knew the matter.
Samuel-1|20:40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said
unto him, Go, carry [them] to the city.
Samuel-1|20:41 [And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a
place] toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed
himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with
another, until David exceeded.
Samuel-1|20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we
have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between
me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
Samuel-1|21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and
Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art]
thou alone, and no man with thee?
Samuel-1|21:2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath
commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing
of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and
I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place.
Samuel-1|21:3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five
[loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
Samuel-1|21:4 And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no
common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men
have kept themselves at least from women.
Samuel-1|21:5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a
truth women [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I came
out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a
manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
Samuel-1|21:6 So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was no
bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put
hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
Samuel-1|21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there that
day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an Edomite, the
chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.
Samuel-1|21:8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under
thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my
weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
Samuel-1|21:9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine,
whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a
cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]: for [there is]
[There is] none like that; give it me.
Samuel-1|21:10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and
went to Achish the king of Gath.
Samuel-1|21:11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not this
David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in
dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Samuel-1|21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore
afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
Samuel-1|21:13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned
himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let
his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Samuel-1|21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is
mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me?
Samuel-1|21:15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this
[fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come into
my house?
Samuel-1|22:1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave
Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they
went down thither to him.
Samuel-1|22:2 And every one [that was] in distress, and every one that
[was] in debt, and every one [that was] discontented, gathered themselves
unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about
four hundred men.
Samuel-1|22:3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto
the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth,
[and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.
Samuel-1|22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they
dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
Samuel-1|22:5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the
hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and
came into the forest of Hareth.
Samuel-1|22:6 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men
that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah,
having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were] standing about
him;)
Samuel-1|22:7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him,
Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields
and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of thousands, and captains of
hundreds;
Samuel-1|22:8 That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is]
none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse,
and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or showeth unto me that my
son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
Samuel-1|22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the
servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to
Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
Samuel-1|22:10 And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him
victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
Samuel-1|22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son
of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that [were] in Nob: and
they came all of them to the king.
Samuel-1|22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he
answered, Here I [am], my lord.
Samuel-1|22:13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me,
thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword,
and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in
wait, as at this day?
Samuel-1|22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who [is
so] faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in
law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
Samuel-1|22:15 Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far
from me: let not the king impute [any] thing unto his servant, [nor] to all
the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or
more.
Samuel-1|22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech,
thou, and all thy father's house.
Samuel-1|22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him,
Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with
David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But
the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the
priests of the LORD.
Samuel-1|22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the
priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and
slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
Samuel-1|22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge
of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and
asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
Samuel-1|22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named
Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
Samuel-1|22:21 And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S
priests.
Samuel-1|22:22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew [it] that day, when
Doeg the Edomite [was] there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have
occasioned [the death] of all the persons of thy father's house.
Samuel-1|22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life
seeketh thy life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard.
Samuel-1|23:1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines
fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
Samuel-1|23:2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go
and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite
the Philistines, and save Keilah.
Samuel-1|23:3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here
in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the
Philistines?
Samuel-1|23:4 Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD
answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I will deliver the
Philistines into thine hand.
Samuel-1|23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great
slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
Samuel-1|23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech
fled to David to Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in his hand.
Samuel-1|23:7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And
Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by
entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
Samuel-1|23:8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down
to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
Samuel-1|23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief
against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
Samuel-1|23:10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath
certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city
for my sake.
Samuel-1|23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will
Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech
thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
Samuel-1|23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my
men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver [thee] up.
Samuel-1|23:13 Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred,
arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And
it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go
forth.
Samuel-1|23:14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and
remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every
day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
Samuel-1|23:15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life:
and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
Samuel-1|23:16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the
wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
Samuel-1|23:17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my
father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall
be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
Samuel-1|23:18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David
abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
Samuel-1|23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth
not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of
Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon?
Samuel-1|23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the
desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him
into the king's hand.
Samuel-1|23:21 And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye have
compassion on me.
Samuel-1|23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place
where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is told me [that]
he dealeth very subtly.
Samuel-1|23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking
places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty,
and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land,
that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
Samuel-1|23:24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David
and his men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of
Jeshimon.
Samuel-1|23:25 Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told
David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of
Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness
of Maon.
Samuel-1|23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and
his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for
fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about
to take them.
Samuel-1|23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee,
and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
Samuel-1|23:28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and
went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place
Selahammahlekoth.
Samuel-1|23:29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds
at Engedi.
Samuel-1|24:1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following
the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David [is] in the
wilderness of Engedi.
Samuel-1|24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all
Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild
goats.
Samuel-1|24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was] a
cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in
the sides of the cave.
Samuel-1|24:4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of
which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into
thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee.
Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
Samuel-1|24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote
him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
Samuel-1|24:6 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do
this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand
against him, seeing he [is] the anointed of the LORD.
Samuel-1|24:7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and
suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave,
and went on [his] way.
Samuel-1|24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and
cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind
him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
Samuel-1|24:9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's
words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
Samuel-1|24:10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD
had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and [some] bade [me]
kill thee: but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth
mine hand against my lord; for he [is] the LORD'S anointed.
Samuel-1|24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe
in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee
not, know thou and see that [there is] neither evil nor transgression in
mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to
take it.
Samuel-1|24:12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge
me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Samuel-1|24:13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness
proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Samuel-1|24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom
dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Samuel-1|24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and
thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
Samuel-1|24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of
speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this thy voice, my son
David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
Samuel-1|24:17 And he said to David, Thou [art] more righteous than I:
for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
Samuel-1|24:18 And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt
well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand,
thou killedst me not.
Samuel-1|24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well
away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me
this day.
Samuel-1|24:20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be
king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
Samuel-1|24:21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt
not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of
my father's house.
Samuel-1|24:22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David
and his men gat them up unto the hold.
Samuel-1|25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered
together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David
arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
Samuel-1|25:2 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.
Samuel-1|25:3 Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of his
wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a
beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings;
and he [was] of the house of Caleb.
Samuel-1|25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his
sheep.
Samuel-1|25:5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the
young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
Samuel-1|25:6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in prosperity],
Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thine house, and peace [be] unto
all that thou hast.
Samuel-1|25:7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy
shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought
missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
Samuel-1|25:8 Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore let
the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I
pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy
son David.
Samuel-1|25:9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal
according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
Samuel-1|25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is]
David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days
that break away every man from his master.
Samuel-1|25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh
that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] unto men, whom I know not
whence they [be]?
Samuel-1|25:12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again,
and came and told him all those sayings.
Samuel-1|25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his
sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his
sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two
hundred abode by the stuff.
Samuel-1|25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife,
saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our
master; and he railed on them.
Samuel-1|25:15 But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not
hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them,
when we were in the fields:
Samuel-1|25:16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the
while we were with them keeping the sheep.
Samuel-1|25:17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for
evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for
he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him.
Samuel-1|25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and
two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
parched [corn], and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes
of figs, and laid [them] on asses.
Samuel-1|25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold,
I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
Samuel-1|25:20 And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she came
down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down
against her; and she met them.
Samuel-1|25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that
this [fellow] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all
that [pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
Samuel-1|25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I
leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that pisseth
against the wall.
Samuel-1|25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off
the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the
ground,
Samuel-1|25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon]
me [let this] iniquity [be]: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in
thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
Samuel-1|25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial,
[even] Nabal: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and
folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord,
whom thou didst send.
Samuel-1|25:26 Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as]
thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed]
blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine
enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
Samuel-1|25:27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought
unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
Samuel-1|25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for
the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth
the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy
days.
Samuel-1|25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul:
but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD
thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out]
of the middle of a sling.
Samuel-1|25:30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done
to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee,
and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
Samuel-1|25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of
heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my
lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my
lord, then remember thine handmaid.
Samuel-1|25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of
Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
Samuel-1|25:33 And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which
hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself
with mine own hand.
Samuel-1|25:34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth,
which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and
come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning
light any that pisseth against the wall.
Samuel-1|25:35 So David received of her hand [that] which she had
brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have
hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
Samuel-1|25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast
in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was] merry
within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less
or more, until the morning light.
Samuel-1|25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was
gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart
died within him, and he became [as] a stone.
Samuel-1|25:38 And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD
smote Nabal, that he died.
Samuel-1|25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,
Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the
hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath
returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and
communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
Samuel-1|25:40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to
Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee
to him to wife.
Samuel-1|25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the
earth, and said, Behold, [let] thine handmaid [be] a servant to wash the
feet of the servants of my lord.
Samuel-1|25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with
five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers
of David, and became his wife.
Samuel-1|25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also
both of them his wives.
Samuel-1|25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to
Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.
Samuel-1|26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth
not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which is] before Jeshimon?
Samuel-1|26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph,
having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the
wilderness of Ziph.
Samuel-1|26:3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which [is]
before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw
that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
Samuel-1|26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul
was come in very deed.
Samuel-1|26:5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had
pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of
Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people
pitched round about him.
Samuel-1|26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and
to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
Samuel-1|26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and,
behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the
ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
Samuel-1|26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy
into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with
the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second
time.
Samuel-1|26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can
stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?
Samuel-1|26:10 David said furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD
shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into
battle, and perish.
Samuel-1|26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand
against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that
[is] at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
Samuel-1|26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from
Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw [it], nor knew [it],
neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep; because a deep sleep from the
LORD was fallen upon them.
Samuel-1|26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the
top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them:
Samuel-1|26:14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of
Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who
[art] thou [that] criest to the king?
Samuel-1|26:15 And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] man?
and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy
lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy
lord.
Samuel-1|26:16 This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the
LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master,
the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear [is], and the cruse
of water that [was] at his bolster.
Samuel-1|26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, [Is] this thy
voice, my son David? And David said, [It is] my voice, my lord, O king.
Samuel-1|26:18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his
servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand?
Samuel-1|26:19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the
words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him
accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they
before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the
inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Samuel-1|26:20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before
the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as
when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
Samuel-1|26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for
I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes
this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
Samuel-1|26:22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and
let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
Samuel-1|26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his
faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I
would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.
Samuel-1|26:24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine
eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him
deliver me out of all tribulation.
Samuel-1|26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David:
thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David
went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
Samuel-1|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
speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of
me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of
his hand.
Samuel-1|27:2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred
men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
Samuel-1|27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every
man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
Samuel-1|27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he
sought no more again for him.
Samuel-1|27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in
thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I
may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with
thee?
Samuel-1|27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag
pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
Samuel-1|27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the
Philistines was a full year and four months.
Samuel-1|27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites,
and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the
inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of
Egypt.
Samuel-1|27:9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman
alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the
camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
Samuel-1|27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And
David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
Samuel-1|27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring
[tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did
David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country
of the Philistines.
Samuel-1|27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his
people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for
ever.
Samuel-1|28:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines
gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And
Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me
to battle, thou and thy men.
Samuel-1|28:2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy
servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper
of mine head for ever.
Samuel-1|28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and
buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that
had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
Samuel-1|28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came
and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they
pitched in Gilboa.
Samuel-1|28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was
afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
Samuel-1|28:6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him
not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
Samuel-1|28:7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that
hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his
servants said to him, Behold, [there is] a woman that hath a familiar
spirit at Endor.
Samuel-1|28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and
he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he
said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me
[him] up, whom I shall name unto thee.
Samuel-1|28:9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what
Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and
the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my
life, to cause me to die?
Samuel-1|28:10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, [As] the LORD
liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
Samuel-1|28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And
he said, Bring me up Samuel.
Samuel-1|28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud
voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for
thou [art] Saul.
Samuel-1|28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what
sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the
earth.
Samuel-1|28:14 And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she said,
An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived
that it [was] Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the ground, and
bowed himself.
Samuel-1|28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to
bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines
make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more,
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou
mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Samuel-1|28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me,
seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
Samuel-1|28:17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the
LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy
neighbour, [even] to David:
Samuel-1|28:18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor
executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this
thing unto thee this day.
Samuel-1|28:19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into
the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be]
with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of
the Philistines.
Samuel-1|28:20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and
was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength
in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
Samuel-1|28:21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore
troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice,
and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which
thou spakest unto me.
Samuel-1|28:22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the
voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and
eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
Samuel-1|28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his
servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto
their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
Samuel-1|28:24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she
hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded [it], and did bake
unleavened bread thereof:
Samuel-1|28:25 And she brought [it] before Saul, and before his
servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
Samuel-1|29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to
Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.
Samuel-1|29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds,
and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with
Achish.
Samuel-1|29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these
Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, [Is]
not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been
with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since
he fell [unto me] unto this day?
Samuel-1|29:4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him;
and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return,
that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let
him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to
us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it]
not [be] with the heads of these men?
Samuel-1|29:5 [Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another in
dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Samuel-1|29:6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as]
the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming
in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in
thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the
lords favour thee not.
Samuel-1|29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease
not the lords of the Philistines.
Samuel-1|29:8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what
hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this
day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
Samuel-1|29:9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou
[art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of
the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
Samuel-1|29:10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy
master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in
the morning, and have light, depart.
Samuel-1|29:11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the
morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines
went up to Jezreel.
Samuel-1|30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to
Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and
Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
Samuel-1|30:2 And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein:
they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went
on their way.
Samuel-1|30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it
was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their
daughters, were taken captives.
Samuel-1|30:4 Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up
their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Samuel-1|30:5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
Samuel-1|30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of
stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for
his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD
his God.
Samuel-1|30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I
pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the
ephod to David.
Samuel-1|30:8 And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue
after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for
thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover [all].
Samuel-1|30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were] with
him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
Samuel-1|30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two
hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the
brook Besor.
Samuel-1|30:11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him
to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink
water;
Samuel-1|30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two
clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him:
for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk [any] water, three days and three
nights.
Samuel-1|30:13 And David said unto him, To whom [belongest] thou? and
whence [art] thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an
Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
Samuel-1|30:14 We made an invasion [upon] the south of the Cherethites,
and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon the south of
Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
Samuel-1|30:15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this
company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me,
nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to
this company.
Samuel-1|30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were]
spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because
of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the
Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
Samuel-1|30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the
evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four
hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
Samuel-1|30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried
away: and David rescued his two wives.
Samuel-1|30:19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor
great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they
had taken to them: David recovered all.
Samuel-1|30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they
drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's spoil.
Samuel-1|30:21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so
faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at
the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people
that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted
them.
Samuel-1|30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial, of
those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we
will not give them [ought] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to
every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away, and
depart.
Samuel-1|30:23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with
that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the
company that came against us into our hand.
Samuel-1|30:24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his
part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be] that
tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
Samuel-1|30:25 And it was [so] from that day forward, that he made it a
statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
Samuel-1|30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto
the elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a present for
you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
Samuel-1|30:27 To [them] which [were] in Bethel, and to [them] which
[were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in Jattir,
Samuel-1|30:28 And to [them] which [were] in Aroer, and to [them] which
[were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] which [were] in Eshtemoa,
Samuel-1|30:29 And to [them] which [were] in Rachal, and to [them] which
[were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] which [were] in
the cities of the Kenites,
Samuel-1|30:30 And to [them] which [were] in Hormah, and to [them] which
[were] in Chorashan, and to [them] which [were] in Athach,
Samuel-1|30:31 And to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and to all the
places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
Samuel-1|31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount
Gilboa.
Samuel-1|31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his
sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua,
Saul's sons.
Samuel-1|31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit
him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
Samuel-1|31:4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and
thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me
through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore
afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
Samuel-1|31:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell
likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
Samuel-1|31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer,
and all his men, that same day together.
Samuel-1|31:7 And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side
of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that
the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook
the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
Samuel-1|31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines
came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in
mount Gilboa.
Samuel-1|31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour,
and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish [it in]
the house of their idols, and among the people.
Samuel-1|31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and
they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
Samuel-1|31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that
which the Philistines had done to Saul;
Samuel-1|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 Bethshan, and
came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
Samuel-1|31:13 And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree
at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Samuel-2|1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was
returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days
in Ziklag;
Samuel-2|1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man
came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his
head: and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth,
and did obeisance.
Samuel-2|1:3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he
said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
Samuel-2|1:4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee,
tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and
many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son
are dead also.
Samuel-2|1:5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How
knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
Samuel-2|1:6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by
chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the
chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
Samuel-2|1:7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto
me. And I answered, Here [am] I.
Samuel-2|1:8 And he said unto me, Who [art] thou? And I answered him, I
[am] an Amalekite.
Samuel-2|1:9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and
slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me.
Samuel-2|1:10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that
he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that [was]
upon his head, and the bracelet that [was] on his arm, and have brought
them hither unto my lord.
Samuel-2|1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and
likewise all the men that [were] with him:
Samuel-2|1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for
Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the
house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Samuel-2|1:13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence
[art] thou? And he answered, I [am] the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
Samuel-2|1:14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to
stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
Samuel-2|1:15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near,
[and] fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
Samuel-2|1:16 And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for
thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S
anointed.
Samuel-2|1:17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and
over Jonathan his son:
Samuel-2|1:18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah [the use
of] the bow: behold, [it is] written in the book of Jasher.)
Samuel-2|1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how
are the mighty fallen!
Samuel-2|1:20 Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it] not in the streets of
Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters
of the uncircumcised triumph.
Samuel-2|1:21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither
[let there be] rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the
shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, [as though he
had] not [been] anointed with oil.
Samuel-2|1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,
the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not
empty.
Samuel-2|1:23 Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their
lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than
eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Samuel-2|1:24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in
scarlet, with [other] delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your
apparel.
Samuel-2|1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O
Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places.
Samuel-2|1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very
pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the
love of women.
Samuel-2|1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war
perished!
Samuel-2|2:1 And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the
LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD
said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said,
Unto Hebron.
Samuel-2|2:2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam
the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
Samuel-2|2:3 And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every
man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
Samuel-2|2:4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David
king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men
of Jabeshgilead [were they] that buried Saul.
Samuel-2|2:5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and
said unto them, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD, that ye have showed this
kindness unto your lord, [even] unto Saul, and have buried him.
Samuel-2|2:6 And now the LORD show kindness and truth unto you: and I
also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
Samuel-2|2:7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye
valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have
anointed me king over them.
Samuel-2|2:8 But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took
Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
Samuel-2|2:9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and
over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
Samuel-2|2:10 Ishbosheth Saul's son [was] forty years old when he began
to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah
followed David.
Samuel-2|2:11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house
of Judah was seven years and six months.
Samuel-2|2:12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth
the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
Samuel-2|2:13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David,
went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the
one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the
pool.
Samuel-2|2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and
play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.
Samuel-2|2:15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of
Benjamin, which [pertained] to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of
the servants of David.
Samuel-2|2:16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and
[thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together:
wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.
Samuel-2|2:17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was
beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
Samuel-2|2:18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and
Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.
Samuel-2|2:19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not
to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
Samuel-2|2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, [Art] thou Asahel?
And he answered, I [am].
Samuel-2|2:21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand
or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee
his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
Samuel-2|2:22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from
following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should
I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
Samuel-2|2:23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the
hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth [rib], that the spear
came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place:
and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell
down and died stood still.
Samuel-2|2:24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun
went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that [lieth] before
Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
Samuel-2|2:25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together
after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.
Samuel-2|2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword
devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter
end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from
following their brethren?
Samuel-2|2:27 And Joab said, [As] God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken,
surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following
his brother.
Samuel-2|2:28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still,
and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
Samuel-2|2:29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the
plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came
to Mahanaim.
Samuel-2|2:30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had
gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen
men and Asahel.
Samuel-2|2:31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of
Abner's men, [so that] three hundred and threescore men died.
Samuel-2|2:32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre
of his father, which [was in] Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all
night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
Samuel-2|3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the
house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of
Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Samuel-2|3:2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn
was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
Samuel-2|3:3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai
king of Geshur;
Samuel-2|3:4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth,
Shephatiah the son of Abital;
Samuel-2|3:5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were
born to David in Hebron.
Samuel-2|3:6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house
of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the
house of Saul.
Samuel-2|3:7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah, the
daughter of Aiah: and [Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone
in unto my father's concubine?
Samuel-2|3:8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and
said, [Am] I a dog's head, which against Judah do show kindness this day
unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and
have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to
day with a fault concerning this woman?
Samuel-2|3:9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath
sworn to David, even so I do to him;
Samuel-2|3:10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to
set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to
Beersheba.
Samuel-2|3:11 And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he
feared him.
Samuel-2|3:12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying,
Whose [is] the land? saying [also], Make thy league with me, and, behold,
my hand [shall be] with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
Samuel-2|3:13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one
thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou
first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
Samuel-2|3:14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son,
saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred
foreskins of the Philistines.
Samuel-2|3:15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband,
[even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
Samuel-2|3:16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to
Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
Samuel-2|3:17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel,
saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you:
Samuel-2|3:18 Now then do [it]: for the LORD hath spoken of David,
saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of
the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
Samuel-2|3:19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner
went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to
Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
Samuel-2|3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him.
And David made Abner and the men that [were] with him a feast.
Samuel-2|3:21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will
gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with
thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And
David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
Samuel-2|3:22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from
[pursuing] a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner [was]
not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in
peace.
Samuel-2|3:23 When Joab and all the host that [was] with him were come,
they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath
sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
Samuel-2|3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done?
behold, Abner came unto thee; why [is] it [that] thou hast sent him away,
and he is quite gone?
Samuel-2|3:25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive
thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that
thou doest.
Samuel-2|3:26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers
after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew
[it] not.
Samuel-2|3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside
in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth
[rib], that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Samuel-2|3:28 And afterward when David heard [it], he said, I and my
kingdom [are] guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner
the son of Ner:
Samuel-2|3:29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's
house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an
issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on
the sword, or that lacketh bread.
Samuel-2|3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had
slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
Samuel-2|3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were]
with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before
Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier.
Samuel-2|3:32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up
his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
Samuel-2|3:33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as
a fool dieth?
Samuel-2|3:34 Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters:
as a man falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou. And all the people
wept again over him.
Samuel-2|3:35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat
while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also,
if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
Samuel-2|3:36 And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased
them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
Samuel-2|3:37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that
it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
Samuel-2|3:38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that
there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Samuel-2|3:39 And I [am] this day weak, though anointed king; and these
men the sons of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the
doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Samuel-2|4:1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron,
his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
Samuel-2|4:2 And Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands:
the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the
sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also
was reckoned to Benjamin.
Samuel-2|4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners
there until this day.)
Samuel-2|4:4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son [that was] lame of
[his] feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and
Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came
to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his
name [was] Mephibosheth.
Samuel-2|4:5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah,
went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who
lay on a bed at noon.
Samuel-2|4:6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as
though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth
[rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
Samuel-2|4:7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his
bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took
his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
Samuel-2|4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to
Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul
thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the
king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
Samuel-2|4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons
of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, [As] the LORD liveth, who
hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
Samuel-2|4:10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking
to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag,
who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
Samuel-2|4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous
person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his
blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Samuel-2|4:12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and
cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged [them] up over the pool in
Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried [it] in the
sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
Samuel-2|5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron,
and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.
Samuel-2|5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he
that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou
shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
Samuel-2|5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and
king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they
anointed David king over Israel.
Samuel-2|5:4 David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and]
he reigned forty years.
Samuel-2|5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months:
and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and
Judah.
Samuel-2|5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the
Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying,
Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in
hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
Samuel-2|5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same
[is] the city of David.
Samuel-2|5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the
gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, [that are]
hated of David's soul, [he shall be chief and captain]. Wherefore they
said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
Samuel-2|5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of
David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Samuel-2|5:10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of
hosts [was] with him.
Samuel-2|5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar
trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
Samuel-2|5:12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king
over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake.
Samuel-2|5:13 And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of
Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and
daughters born to David.
Samuel-2|5:14 And these [be] the names of those that were born unto him
in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
Samuel-2|5:15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
Samuel-2|5:16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
Samuel-2|5:17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed
David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and
David heard [of it], and went down to the hold.
Samuel-2|5:18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the
valley of Rephaim.
Samuel-2|5:19 And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to
the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said
unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine
hand.
Samuel-2|5:20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there,
and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the
breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
Samuel-2|5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his men
burned them.
Samuel-2|5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread
themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
Samuel-2|5:23 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt
not go up; [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over
against the mulberry trees.
Samuel-2|5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in
the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for
then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the
Philistines.
Samuel-2|5:25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote
the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
Samuel-2|6:1 Again, David gathered together all [the] chosen [men] of
Israel, thirty thousand.
Samuel-2|6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that [were]
with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose
name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the
cherubims.
Samuel-2|6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it
out of the house of Abinadab that [was] in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the
sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
Samuel-2|6:4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which
[was] at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
Samuel-2|6:5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the
LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on
psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
Samuel-2|6:6 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put
forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook
[it].
Samuel-2|6:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and
God smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Samuel-2|6:8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a
breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this
day.
Samuel-2|6:9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How
shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
Samuel-2|6:10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him
into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of
Obededom the Gittite.
Samuel-2|6:11 And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom
the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his
household.
Samuel-2|6:12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed
the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the
ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of
Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
Samuel-2|6:13 And it was [so], that when they that bare the ark of the
LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
Samuel-2|6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and
David [was] girded with a linen ephod.
Samuel-2|6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
Samuel-2|6:16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David,
Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping
and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
Samuel-2|6:17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his
place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and
David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Samuel-2|6:18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt
offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the
LORD of hosts.
Samuel-2|6:19 And he dealt among all the people, [even] among the whole
multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of
bread, and a good piece [of flesh], and a flagon [of wine]. So all the
people departed every one to his house.
Samuel-2|6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the
daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the
king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the
handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly
uncovereth himself!
Samuel-2|6:21 And David said unto Michal, [It was] before the LORD,
which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me
ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play
before the LORD.
Samuel-2|6:22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in
mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them
shall I be had in honour.
Samuel-2|6:23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto
the day of her death.
Samuel-2|7:1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and
the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
Samuel-2|7:2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I
dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
Samuel-2|7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in thine
heart; for the LORD [is] with thee.
Samuel-2|7:4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD
came unto Nathan, saying,
Samuel-2|7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt
thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
Samuel-2|7:6 Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that
I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but
have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
Samuel-2|7:7 In all [the places] wherein I have walked with all the
children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I
commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of
cedar?
Samuel-2|7:8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the
sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
Samuel-2|7:9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have
cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great
name, like unto the name of the great [men] that [are] in the earth.
Samuel-2|7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and
will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no
more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as
beforetime,
Samuel-2|7:11 And as since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over
my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also
the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
Samuel-2|7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of
thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
Samuel-2|7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish
the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Samuel-2|7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit
iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of
the children of men:
Samuel-2|7:15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took
[it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
Samuel-2|7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for
ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Samuel-2|7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this
vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
Samuel-2|7:18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he
said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that thou hast
brought me hitherto?
Samuel-2|7:19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD;
but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come.
And [is] this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
Samuel-2|7:20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD,
knowest thy servant.
Samuel-2|7:21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart,
hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them].
Samuel-2|7:22 Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none
like thee, neither [is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we
have heard with our ears.
Samuel-2|7:23 And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people,
[even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to
make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land,
before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the
nations and their gods?
Samuel-2|7:24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to
be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
Samuel-2|7:25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken
concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish [it] for ever,
and do as thou hast said.
Samuel-2|7:26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD
of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David
be established before thee.
Samuel-2|7:27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to
thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant
found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
Samuel-2|7:28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that God, and thy words be
true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
Samuel-2|7:29 Therefore now let 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 [it]: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be
blessed for ever.
Samuel-2|8:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the
Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand
of the Philistines.
Samuel-2|8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting
them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death,
and with one full line to keep alive. And [so] the Moabites became David's
servants, [and] brought gifts.
Samuel-2|8:3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of
Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
Samuel-2|8:4 And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven
hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hocked all the
chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots.
Samuel-2|8:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer
king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
Samuel-2|8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the
Syrians became servants to David, [and] brought gifts. And the LORD
preserved David whithersoever he went.
Samuel-2|8:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the
servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|8:8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer,
king David took exceeding much brass.
Samuel-2|8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all
the host of Hadadezer,
Samuel-2|8:10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute
him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten
him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And [Joram] brought with him vessels
of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
Samuel-2|8:11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the
silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
Samuel-2|8:12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and
of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of
Rehob, king of Zobah.
Samuel-2|8:13 And David gat [him] a name when he returned from smiting
of the Syrians in the valley of salt, [being] eighteen thousand [men].
Samuel-2|8:14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he
garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD
preserved David whithersoever he went.
Samuel-2|8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed
judgment and justice unto all his people.
Samuel-2|8:16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah [was] over the host; and
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud [was] recorder;
Samuel-2|8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of
Abiathar, [were] the priests; and Seraiah [was] the scribe;
Samuel-2|8:18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] both the
Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
Samuel-2|9:1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house
of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
Samuel-2|9:2 And [there was] of the house of Saul a servant whose name
[was] Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto
him, [Art] thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant [is he].
Samuel-2|9:3 And the king said, [Is] there not yet any of the house of
Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the
king, Jonathan hath yet a son, [which is] lame on [his] feet.
Samuel-2|9:4 And the king said unto him, Where [is] he? And Ziba said
unto the king, Behold, he [is] in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel,
in Lodebar.
Samuel-2|9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of
Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
Samuel-2|9:6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of
Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And
David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
Samuel-2|9:7 And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely show
thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the
land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
Samuel-2|9:8 And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that
thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am]?
Samuel-2|9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto
him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to
all his house.
Samuel-2|9:10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till
the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's
son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread
alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
Samuel-2|9:11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my
lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for
Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the
king's sons.
Samuel-2|9:12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name [was] Micha.
And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba [were] servants unto Mephibosheth.
Samuel-2|9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat
continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.
Samuel-2|10:1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the
children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
Samuel-2|10:2 Then said David, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son
of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort
him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came
into the land of the children of Ammon.
Samuel-2|10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun
their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath
sent comforters unto thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants unto
thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
Samuel-2|10:4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the
one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, [even]
to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Samuel-2|10:5 When they told [it] unto David, he sent to meet them,
because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho
until your beards be grown, and [then] return.
Samuel-2|10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and
the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand
men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
Samuel-2|10:7 And when David heard of [it], he sent Joab, and all the
host of the mighty men.
Samuel-2|10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of
Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field.
Samuel-2|10:9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him
before and behind, he chose of all the choice [men] of Israel, and put
[them] in array against the Syrians:
Samuel-2|10:10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of
Abishai his brother, that he might put [them] in array against the children
of Ammon.
Samuel-2|10:11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then
thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee,
then I will come and help thee.
Samuel-2|10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our
people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth
him good.
Samuel-2|10:13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that [were] with him,
unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
Samuel-2|10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were
fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So
Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|10:15 And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before
Israel, they gathered themselves together.
Samuel-2|10:16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that
[were] beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of
the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.
Samuel-2|10:17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel
together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set
themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
Samuel-2|10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the
men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen,
and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
Samuel-2|10:19 And when all the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer
saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and
served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
Samuel-2|11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the
time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his
servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of
Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|11:2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose
from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from
the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful
to look upon.
Samuel-2|11:3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And [one]
said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the
Hittite?
Samuel-2|11:4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in
unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness:
and she returned unto her house.
Samuel-2|11:5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and
said, I [am] with child.
Samuel-2|11:6 And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the
Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
Samuel-2|11:7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded [of him]
how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
Samuel-2|11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash
thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed
him a mess [of meat] from the king.
Samuel-2|11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all
the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
Samuel-2|11:10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down
unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey?
why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?
Samuel-2|11:11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and
Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are
encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to
drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth,
I will not do this thing.
Samuel-2|11:12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to
morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and
the morrow.
Samuel-2|11:13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink
before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his
bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
Samuel-2|11:14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a
letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.
Samuel-2|11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the
forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be
smitten, and die.
Samuel-2|11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he
assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men [were].
Samuel-2|11:17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab:
and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the
Hittite died also.
Samuel-2|11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning
the war;
Samuel-2|11:19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an
end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
Samuel-2|11:20 And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto
thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew
ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
Samuel-2|11:21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a
woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in
Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the
Hittite is dead also.
Samuel-2|11:22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that
Joab had sent him for.
Samuel-2|11:23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men
prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon
them even unto the entering of the gate.
Samuel-2|11:24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy
servants; and [some] of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah
the Hittite is dead also.
Samuel-2|11:25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say
unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one
as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and
overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
Samuel-2|11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband
was dead, she mourned for her husband.
Samuel-2|11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched
her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the
thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
Samuel-2|12:1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him,
and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the
other poor.
Samuel-2|12:2 The rich [man] had exceeding many flocks and herds:
Samuel-2|12:3 But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb,
which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and
with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, s
unto him as a daughter.
Samuel-2|12:4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he
spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the
wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and
dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Samuel-2|12:5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and
he said to Nathan, [As] the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this
[thing] shall surely die:
Samuel-2|12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did
this thing, and because he had no pity.
Samuel-2|12:7 And Nathan said to David, Thou [art] the man. Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered
thee out of the hand of Saul;
Samuel-2|12:8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives
into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if
[that had been] too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and
such things.
Samuel-2|12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD,
to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword
of the children of Ammon.
Samuel-2|12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine
house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be thy wife.
Samuel-2|12:11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against
thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes,
and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the
sight of this sun.
Samuel-2|12:12 For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing
before all Israel, and before the sun.
Samuel-2|12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the
LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou
shalt not die.
Samuel-2|12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great
occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also [that is]
born unto thee shall surely die.
Samuel-2|12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck
the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
Samuel-2|12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David
fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
Samuel-2|12:17 And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to
raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread
with them.
Samuel-2|12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that 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 spake unto him,
and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if
we tell him that the child is dead?
Samuel-2|12:19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David
perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants,
Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
Samuel-2|12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed
[himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD,
and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they
set bread before him, and he did eat.
Samuel-2|12:21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing [is] this
that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, [while it was]
alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
Samuel-2|12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and
wept: for I said, Who can tell [whether] GOD will be gracious to me, that
the child may live?
Samuel-2|12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring
him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Samuel-2|12:24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto
her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon:
and the LORD loved him.
Samuel-2|12:25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he
called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
Samuel-2|12:26 And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon,
and took the royal city.
Samuel-2|12:27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have
fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
Samuel-2|12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and
encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be
called after my name.
Samuel-2|12:29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to
Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
Samuel-2|12:30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the
weight whereof [was] a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was
[set] on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great
abundance.
Samuel-2|12:31 And he brought forth the people that [were] therein, and
put [them] under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron,
and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the
cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto
Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|13:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of
David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David
loved her.
Samuel-2|13:2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister
Tamar; for she [was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any
thing to her.
Samuel-2|13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was] Jonadab, the son
of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a very subtle man.
Samuel-2|13:4 And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king's
son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him,
I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
Samuel-2|13:5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and
make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I
pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat
in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.
Samuel-2|13:6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the
king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar
my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat
at her hand.
Samuel-2|13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy
brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
Samuel-2|13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was
laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded [it], and made cakes in his
sight, and did bake the cakes.
Samuel-2|13:9 And she took a pan, and poured [them] out before him; but
he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went
out every man from him.
Samuel-2|13:10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the
chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she
had made, and brought [them] into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
Samuel-2|13:11 And when she had brought [them] unto him to eat, he took
hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
Samuel-2|13:12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me;
for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
Samuel-2|13:13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for
thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray
thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
Samuel-2|13:14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being
stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
Samuel-2|13:15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred
wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved
her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
Samuel-2|13:16 And she said unto him, [There is] no cause: this evil in
sending me away [is] greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he
would not hearken unto her.
Samuel-2|13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and
said, Put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door after her.
Samuel-2|13:18 And [she had] a garment of divers colours upon her: for
with such robes were the king's daughters [that were] virgins apparelled.
Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
Samuel-2|13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of
divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went
on crying.
Samuel-2|13:20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy
brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he [is] thy
brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother
Absalom's house.
Samuel-2|13:21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was
very wroth.
Samuel-2|13:22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor
bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
Samuel-2|13:23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom
had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and Absalom
invited all the king's sons.
Samuel-2|13:24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy
servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants
go with thy servant.
Samuel-2|13:25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all
now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he
would not go, but blessed him.
Samuel-2|13:26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother
Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
Samuel-2|13:27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the
king's sons go with him.
Samuel-2|13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye
now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite
Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous,
and be valiant.
Samuel-2|13:29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had
commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon
his mule, and fled.
Samuel-2|13:30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that
tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and
there is not one of them left.
Samuel-2|13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on
the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
Samuel-2|13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered
and said, Let not my lord suppose [that] they have slain all the young men
the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom
this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
Samuel-2|13:33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to
his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is
dead.
Samuel-2|13:34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the
way of the hill side behind him.
Samuel-2|13:35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons
come: as thy servant said, so it is.
Samuel-2|13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and
wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
Samuel-2|13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud,
king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day.
Samuel-2|13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three
years.
Samuel-2|13:39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto
Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
Samuel-2|14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's
heart [was] toward Absalom.
Samuel-2|14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman,
and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on
now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman
that had a long time mourned for the dead:
Samuel-2|14:3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.
So Joab put the words in her mouth.
Samuel-2|14:4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell
on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
Samuel-2|14:5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, I [am] indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
Samuel-2|14:6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove
together in the field, and [there was] none to part them, but the one smote
the other, and slew him.
Samuel-2|14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine
handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may
kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the
heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not
leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.
Samuel-2|14:8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I
will give charge concerning thee.
Samuel-2|14:9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O
king, the iniquity [be] on me, and on my father's house: and the king and
his throne [be] guiltless.
Samuel-2|14:10 And the king said, Whosoever saith [ought] unto thee,
bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
Samuel-2|14:11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the
LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to
destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD
liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
Samuel-2|14:12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee,
speak [one] word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
Samuel-2|14:13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such
a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as
one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his
banished.
Samuel-2|14:14 For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilled on the
ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any]
person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from
him.
Samuel-2|14:15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto
my lord the king, [it is] because the people have made me afraid: and thy
handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will
perform the request of his handmaid.
Samuel-2|14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of
the hand of the man [that would] destroy me and my son together out of the
inheritance of God.
Samuel-2|14:17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king
shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king
to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
Samuel-2|14:18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not
from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said,
Let my lord the king now speak.
Samuel-2|14:19 And the king said, [Is not] the hand of Joab with thee in
all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord
the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my
lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all
these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
Samuel-2|14:20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab
done this thing: and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of an angel
of God, to know all [things] that [are] in the earth.
Samuel-2|14:21 And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this
thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
Samuel-2|14:22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed
himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth
that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king
hath fulfilled the request of his servant.
Samuel-2|14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|14:24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let
him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the
king's face.
Samuel-2|14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as
Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his
head there was no blemish in him.
Samuel-2|14:26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's
end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he
polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after
the king's weight.
Samuel-2|14:27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one
daughter, whose name [was] Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
Samuel-2|14:28 So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not
the king's face.
Samuel-2|14:29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the
king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time,
he would not come.
Samuel-2|14:30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is
near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's
servants set the field on fire.
Samuel-2|14:31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto [his] house,
and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
Samuel-2|14:32 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.
Samuel-2|14:33 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had
called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to
the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
Samuel-2|15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him
chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
Samuel-2|15:2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the
gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came to the
king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city
[art] thou? And he said, Thy servant [is] of one of the tribes of Israel.
Samuel-2|15:3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters [are] good and
right; but [there is] no man [deputed] of the king to hear thee.
Samuel-2|15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the
land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I
would do him justice!
Samuel-2|15:5 And it was [so], that when any man came nigh [to him] to
do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
Samuel-2|15:6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to
the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
Samuel-2|15:7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said
unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed
unto the LORD, in Hebron.
Samuel-2|15:8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in
Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I
will serve the LORD.
Samuel-2|15:9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and
went to Hebron.
Samuel-2|15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of
Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall
say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
Samuel-2|15:11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem,
[that were] called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not
any thing.
Samuel-2|15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's
counsellor, from his city, [even] from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices.
And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with
Absalom.
Samuel-2|15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts
of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
Samuel-2|15:14 And David said unto all his servants that [were] with him
at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not [else] escape from
Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil
upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
Samuel-2|15:15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy
servants [are ready to do] whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
Samuel-2|15:16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him.
And the king left ten women, [which were] concubines, to keep the house.
Samuel-2|15:17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him,
and tarried in a place that was far off.
Samuel-2|15:18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the
Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men
which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
Samuel-2|15:19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest
thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou
[art] a stranger, and also an exile.
Samuel-2|15:20 Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day
make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou,
and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth [be] with thee.
Samuel-2|15:21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, [As] the LORD
liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the
king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant
be.
Samuel-2|15:22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the
Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that [were]
with him.
Samuel-2|15:23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the
people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and
all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
Samuel-2|15:24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him,
bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God;
and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the
city.
Samuel-2|15:25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God
into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will
bring me again, and show me [both] it, and his habitation:
Samuel-2|15:26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold,
[here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Samuel-2|15:27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou
a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz
thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
Samuel-2|15:28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until
there come word from you to certify me.
Samuel-2|15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again
to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
Samuel-2|15:30 And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and
wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all
the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went
up, weeping as they went up.
Samuel-2|15:31 And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the
conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the
counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Samuel-2|15:32 And it came to pass, that [when] David was come to the
top [of the mount], where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite
came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
Samuel-2|15:33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then
thou shalt be a burden unto me:
Samuel-2|15:34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I
will be thy servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father's servant
hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me
defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
Samuel-2|15:35 And [hast thou] not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar
the priests? therefore it shall be, [that] what thing soever thou shalt
hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell [it] to Zadok and Abiathar
the priests.
Samuel-2|15:36 Behold, [they have] there with them their two sons,
Ahimaaz Zadok's [son], and Jonathan Abiathar's [son]; and by them ye shall
send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
Samuel-2|15:37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom
came into Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|16:1 And when David was a little past the top [of the hill],
behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses
saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an hundred
bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
Samuel-2|16:2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these?
And Ziba said, The asses [be] for the king's household to ride on; and the
bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as
be faint in the wilderness may drink.
Samuel-2|16:3 And the king said, And where [is] thy master's son? And
Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To
day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
Samuel-2|16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine [are] all that
[pertained] unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee [that]
I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
Samuel-2|16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came
out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name [was] Shimei, the
son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
Samuel-2|16:6 And he cast 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.
Samuel-2|16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out,
thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
Samuel-2|16:8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the
house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath
delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou
[art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man.
Samuel-2|16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why
should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee,
and take off his head.
Samuel-2|16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse
David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
Samuel-2|16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants,
Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much
more now [may this] Benjamite [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse;
for the LORD hath bidden him.
Samuel-2|16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and
that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
Samuel-2|16:13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went
along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw
stones at him, and cast dust.
Samuel-2|16:14 And the king, and all the people that [were] with him,
came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
Samuel-2|16:15 And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came
to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
Samuel-2|16:16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's
friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the
king, God save the king.
Samuel-2|16:17 And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy
friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
Samuel-2|16:18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and
this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him
will I abide.
Samuel-2|16:19 And again, whom should I serve? [should I] not [serve] in
the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will
I be in thy presence.
Samuel-2|16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you
what we shall do.
Samuel-2|16:21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's
concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear
that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that
[are] with thee be strong.
Samuel-2|16:22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house;
and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all
Israel.
Samuel-2|16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in
those days, [was] as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so [was]
all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Samuel-2|17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose
out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this
night:
Samuel-2|17:2 And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak
handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with him
shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
Samuel-2|17:3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man
whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in
peace.
Samuel-2|17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of
Israel.
Samuel-2|17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and
let us hear likewise what he saith.
Samuel-2|17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto
him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do [after]
his saying? if not; speak thou.
Samuel-2|17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel
hath given [is] not good at this time.
Samuel-2|17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men,
that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds, as a bear
robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of war, and
will not lodge with the people.
Samuel-2|17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other]
place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the
first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the
people that follow Absalom.
Samuel-2|17:10 And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the
heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father
[is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant men.
Samuel-2|17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered
unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for
multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
Samuel-2|17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be
found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of
him and of all the men that [are] with him there shall not be left so much
as one.
Samuel-2|17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all
Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until
there be not one small stone found there.
Samuel-2|17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel
of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the
LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent
that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
Samuel-2|17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and
thus and thus have I counselled.
Samuel-2|17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge
not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over;
lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.
Samuel-2|17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they
might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them;
and they went and told king David.
Samuel-2|17:18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they
went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which
had a well in his court; whither they went down.
Samuel-2|17:19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's
mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
Samuel-2|17:20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the
house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto
them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and
could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|17:21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they
came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David,
Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled
against you.
Samuel-2|17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with
him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one
of them that was not gone over Jordan.
Samuel-2|17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not
followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house,
to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died,
and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Samuel-2|17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over
Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
Samuel-2|17:25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of
Joab: which Amasa [was] a man's son, whose name [was] Ithra an Israelite,
that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's
mother.
Samuel-2|17:26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
Samuel-2|17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim,
that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir
the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
Samuel-2|17:28 Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat,
and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and
parched [pulse],
Samuel-2|17:29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for
David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The
people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Samuel-2|18:1 And David numbered the people that [were] with him, and
set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
Samuel-2|18:2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the
hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of
Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the
Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you
myself also.
Samuel-2|18:3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if
we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will
they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore
now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.
Samuel-2|18:4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will
do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by
hundreds and by thousands.
Samuel-2|18:5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
[Deal] gently for my sake with the young man, [even] with Absalom. And all
the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning
Absalom.
Samuel-2|18:6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and
the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
Samuel-2|18:7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants
of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand
[men].
Samuel-2|18:8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all
the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword
devoured.
Samuel-2|18:9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode
upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and
his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and
the earth; and the mule that [was] under him went away.
Samuel-2|18:10 And a certain man saw [it], and told Joab, and said,
Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
Samuel-2|18:11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold,
thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground?
And I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle.
Samuel-2|18:12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a
thousand [shekels] of silver in mine hand, [yet] would I not put forth mine
hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and
Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none [touch] the young man Absalom.
Samuel-2|18:13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine
own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself
wouldest have set thyself against [me].
Samuel-2|18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he
took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,
while he [was] yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Samuel-2|18:15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about
and smote Absalom, and slew him.
Samuel-2|18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from
pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
Samuel-2|18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in
the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel
fled every one to his tent.
Samuel-2|18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for
himself a pillar, which [is] in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son
to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own
name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Samuel-2|18:19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and
bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
Samuel-2|18:20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this
day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear
no tidings, because the king's son is dead.
Samuel-2|18:21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast
seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.
Samuel-2|18:22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But
howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said,
Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
Samuel-2|18:23 But howsoever, [said he], let me run. And he said unto
him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
Samuel-2|18:24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman
went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes,
and looked, and behold a man running alone.
Samuel-2|18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king
said, If he [be] alone, [there is] tidings in his mouth. And he came apace,
and drew near.
Samuel-2|18:26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the
watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold [another] man running
alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
Samuel-2|18:27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the
foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king
said, He [is] a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
Samuel-2|18:28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well.
And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said,
Blessed [be] the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted
up their hand against my lord the king.
Samuel-2|18:29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And
Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and [me] thy servant,
I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what [it was].
Samuel-2|18:30 And the king said [unto him], Turn aside, [and] stand
here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
Samuel-2|18:31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord
the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up
against thee.
Samuel-2|18:32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom
safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that
rise against thee to do [thee] hurt, be as [that] young man [is].
Samuel-2|18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber
over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my
son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my
son!
Samuel-2|19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and
mourneth for Absalom.
Samuel-2|19:2 And the victory that day was [turned] into mourning unto
all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved
for his son.
Samuel-2|19:3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city,
as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Samuel-2|19:4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a
loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Samuel-2|19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou
hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have
saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the
lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
Samuel-2|19:6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends.
For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor
servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we
had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
Samuel-2|19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto
thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not
tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all
the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
Samuel-2|19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told
unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all
the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
Samuel-2|19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the
tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies,
and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled
out of the land for Absalom.
Samuel-2|19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.
Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
Samuel-2|19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,
saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to
bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come
to the king, [even] to his house.
Samuel-2|19:12 Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh:
wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
Samuel-2|19:13 And say ye to Amasa, [Art] thou not of my bone, and of my
flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host
before me continually in the room of Joab.
Samuel-2|19:14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as
[the heart of] one man; so that they sent [this word] unto the king, Return
thou, and all thy servants.
Samuel-2|19:15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came
to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
Samuel-2|19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which [was] of
Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
Samuel-2|19:17 And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and
Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty
servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
Samuel-2|19:18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's
household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell
down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
Samuel-2|19:19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity
unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the
day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take
it to his heart.
Samuel-2|19:20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore,
behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down
to meet my lord the king.
Samuel-2|19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall
not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?
Samuel-2|19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of
Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any
man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I [am] this
day king over Israel?
Samuel-2|19:23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die.
And the king sware unto him.
Samuel-2|19:24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the
king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed
his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came [again]
in peace.
Samuel-2|19:25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to
meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with
me, Mephibosheth?
Samuel-2|19:26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me:
for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and
go to the king; because thy servant [is] lame.
Samuel-2|19:27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king;
but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God: do therefore [what is] good
in thine eyes.
Samuel-2|19:28 For all [of] my father's house were but dead men before
my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at
thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the
king?
Samuel-2|19:29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of
thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
Samuel-2|19:30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take
all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own
house.
Samuel-2|19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and
went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
Samuel-2|19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years
old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim;
for he [was] a very great man.
Samuel-2|19:33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me,
and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|19:34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to
live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
Samuel-2|19:35 I [am] this day fourscore years old: [and] can I discern
between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink?
can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore
then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Samuel-2|19:36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the
king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Samuel-2|19:37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may
die in mine own city, [and be buried] by the grave of my father and of my
mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the
king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
Samuel-2|19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and
I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou
shalt require of me, [that] will I do for thee.
Samuel-2|19:39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king
was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned
unto his own place.
Samuel-2|19:40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with
him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the
people of Israel.
Samuel-2|19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and
said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee
away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men
with him, over Jordan?
Samuel-2|19:42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel,
Because the king [is] near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for
this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's [cost]? or hath he given us
any gift?
Samuel-2|19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and
said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David
than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first
had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were
fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Samuel-2|20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name
[was] Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and
said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of
Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
Samuel-2|20:2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, [and]
followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their
king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
Samuel-2|20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king
took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house,
and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were
shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Samuel-2|20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah
within three days, and be thou here present.
Samuel-2|20:5 So Amasa went to assemble [the men of] Judah: but he
tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
Samuel-2|20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of
Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants,
and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
Samuel-2|20:7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the
Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out
of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Samuel-2|20:8 When they [were] at the great stone which [is] in Gibeon,
Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded
unto him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in
the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Samuel-2|20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in health, my brother?
And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
Samuel-2|20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab's
hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels
to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai
his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Samuel-2|20:11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that
favoureth Joab, and he that [is] for David, [let him go] after Joab.
Samuel-2|20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway.
And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out
of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that
every one that came by him stood still.
Samuel-2|20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people
went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Samuel-2|20:14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel,
and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together,
and went also after him.
Samuel-2|20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah,
and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and
all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
Samuel-2|20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say,
I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
Samuel-2|20:17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, [Art]
thou Joab? And he answered, I [am he]. Then she said unto him, Hear the
words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
Samuel-2|20:18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old
time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended
[the matter].
Samuel-2|20:19 I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in
Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt
thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
Samuel-2|20:20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me,
that I should swallow up or destroy.
Samuel-2|20:21 The matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba
the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even]
against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the
woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the
wall.
Samuel-2|20:22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom.
And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast [it] out to
Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to
his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
Samuel-2|20:23 Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
Samuel-2|20:24 And Adoram [was] over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the
son of Ahilud [was] recorder:
Samuel-2|20:25 And Sheva [was] scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar [were] the
priests:
Samuel-2|20:26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
Samuel-2|21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years,
year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It
is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
Samuel-2|21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them;
(now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the
remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them:
and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and
Judah.)
Samuel-2|21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do
for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD?
Samuel-2|21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver
nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man
in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, [that] will I do for you.
Samuel-2|21:5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and
that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any
of the coasts of Israel,
Samuel-2|21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we
will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did
choose. And the king said, I will give [them].
Samuel-2|21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the
son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that [was] between them, between
David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
Samuel-2|21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of
Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons
of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite:
Samuel-2|21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,
and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven
together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first
[days], in the beginning of barley harvest.
Samuel-2|21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and
spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water
dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air
to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Samuel-2|21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
the concubine of Saul, had done.
Samuel-2|21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them
from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when
the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
Samuel-2|21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the
bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were
hanged.
Samuel-2|21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in
the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and
they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was
entreated for the land.
Samuel-2|21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel;
and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the
Philistines: and David waxed faint.
Samuel-2|21:16 And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant, the
weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight,
he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
Samuel-2|21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote
the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him,
saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not
the light of Israel.
Samuel-2|21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a
battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew
Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant.
Samuel-2|21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,
where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of]
Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.
Samuel-2|21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of
[great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six
toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
Samuel-2|21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah
the brother of David slew him.
Samuel-2|21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by
the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
Samuel-2|22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in
the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
Samuel-2|22:2 And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and
my deliverer;
Samuel-2|22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my
shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my
saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Samuel-2|22:4 I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so
shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Samuel-2|22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of
ungodly men made me afraid;
Samuel-2|22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of
death prevented me;
Samuel-2|22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my
God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter]
into his ears.
Samuel-2|22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of
heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
Samuel-2|22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of
his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Samuel-2|22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness
[was] under his feet.
Samuel-2|22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen
upon the wings of the wind.
Samuel-2|22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark
waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.
Samuel-2|22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire
kindled.
Samuel-2|22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered
his voice.
Samuel-2|22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning,
and discomfited them.
Samuel-2|22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of
the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the
breath of his nostrils.
Samuel-2|22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many
waters;
Samuel-2|22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them
that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Samuel-2|22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD
was my stay.
Samuel-2|22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered
me, because he delighted in me.
Samuel-2|22:21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness:
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Samuel-2|22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not
wickedly departed from my God.
Samuel-2|22:23 For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his
statutes, I did not depart from them.
Samuel-2|22:24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from
mine iniquity.
Samuel-2|22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
Samuel-2|22:26 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, [and]
with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.
Samuel-2|22:27 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt show thyself unsavoury.
Samuel-2|22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes
[are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.
Samuel-2|22:29 For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten
my darkness.
Samuel-2|22:30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I
leaped over a wall.
Samuel-2|22:31 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD
[is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him.
Samuel-2|22:32 For who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock,
save our God?
Samuel-2|22:33 God [is] my strength [and] power: And he maketh my way
perfect.
Samuel-2|22:34 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: and setteth me upon
my high places.
Samuel-2|22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is
broken by mine arms.
Samuel-2|22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and
thy gentleness hath made me great.
Samuel-2|22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did
not slip.
Samuel-2|22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and
turned not again until I had consumed them.
Samuel-2|22:39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they
could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
Samuel-2|22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them
that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
Samuel-2|22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I
might destroy them that hate me.
Samuel-2|22:42 They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto
the LORD, but he answered them not.
Samuel-2|22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I
did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread them abroad.
Samuel-2|22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my
people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I
knew not shall serve me.
Samuel-2|22:45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as
they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
Samuel-2|22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out
of their close places.
Samuel-2|22:47 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be
the God of the rock of my salvation.
Samuel-2|22:48 It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the
people under me,
Samuel-2|22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also
hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man.
Samuel-2|22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
Samuel-2|22:51 [He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and showeth
mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
Samuel-2|23:1 Now these [be] the last words of David. David the son of
Jesse said, and the man [who was] raised up on high, the anointed of the
God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
Samuel-2|23:2 The spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word [was] in
my tongue.
Samuel-2|23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He
that ruleth over men [must be] just, ruling in the fear of God.
Samuel-2|23:4 And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the
sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass
[springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Samuel-2|23:5 Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for
[this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not
to grow.
Samuel-2|23:6 But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns
thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Samuel-2|23:7 But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with
iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire
in the [same] place.
Samuel-2|23:8 These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The
Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was]
Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he
slew at one time.
Samuel-2|23:9 And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
[one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines
[that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were
gone away:
Samuel-2|23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was
weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great
victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
Samuel-2|23:11 And after him [was] Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite.
And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece
of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
Samuel-2|23:12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it,
and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
Samuel-2|23:13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to
David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the
Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
Samuel-2|23:14 And David [was] then in an hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines [was] then [in] Bethlehem.
Samuel-2|23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me
drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which [is] by the gate!
Samuel-2|23:16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the
gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not
drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
Samuel-2|23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do
this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their
lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty
men.
Samuel-2|23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was
chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and]
slew [them], and had the name among three.
Samuel-2|23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was
their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.
Samuel-2|23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant
man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab:
he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
Samuel-2|23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian
had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked
the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
Samuel-2|23:22 These [things] did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had
the name among three mighty men.
Samuel-2|23:23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained
not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
Samuel-2|23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab [was] one of the thirty;
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Samuel-2|23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Samuel-2|23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Samuel-2|23:27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
Samuel-2|23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
Samuel-2|23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of
Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
Samuel-2|23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
Samuel-2|23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
Samuel-2|23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
Samuel-2|23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the
Hararite,
Samuel-2|23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite,
Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
Samuel-2|23:35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
Samuel-2|23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
Samuel-2|23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer
to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Samuel-2|23:38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
Samuel-2|23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
Samuel-2|24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against
Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and
Judah.
Samuel-2|24:2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which
[was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to
Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the
people.
Samuel-2|24:3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto
the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of
my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in
this thing?
Samuel-2|24:4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab,
and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host
went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
Samuel-2|24:5 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:
Samuel-2|24:6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi;
and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
Samuel-2|24:7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities
of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of
Judah, [even] to Beersheba.
Samuel-2|24:8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to
Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Samuel-2|24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto
the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that
drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.
Samuel-2|24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered
the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I
have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Samuel-2|24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the
LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
Samuel-2|24:12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee
three [things]; choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] unto thee.
Samuel-2|24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him,
Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee
three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be
three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall
sent me.
Samuel-2|24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us
fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies [are] great: and let me
not fall into the hand of man.
Samuel-2|24:15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the
morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan
even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
Samuel-2|24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem
to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel
that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel
of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
Samuel-2|24:17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that
smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly:
but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and against my father's house.
Samuel-2|24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up,
rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Samuel-2|24:19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the
LORD commanded.
Samuel-2|24:20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants
coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the
king on his face upon the ground.
Samuel-2|24:21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to
his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an
altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Samuel-2|24:22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take
and offer up what [seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here be] oxen for burnt
sacrifice, and threshing instruments and [other] instruments of the oxen
for wood.
Samuel-2|24:23 All these [things] did Araunah, [as] a king, give unto
the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
Samuel-2|24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely
buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the
LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the
threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
Samuel-2|24:25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the
land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Kings-1|1:1 Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they
covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Kings-1|1:2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought
for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and
let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king
may get heat.
Kings-1|1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts
of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
Kings-1|1:4 And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and
ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
Kings-1|1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I
will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to
run before him.
Kings-1|1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying,
Why hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his
mother] bare him after Absalom.
Kings-1|1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with
Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].
Kings-1|1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which
[belonged] to David, were not with Adonijah.
Kings-1|1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone
of Zoheleth, which [is] by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's
sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
Kings-1|1:10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men,
and Solomon his brother, he called not.
Kings-1|1:11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of
Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth
reign, and David our lord knoweth [it] not?
Kings-1|1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel,
that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
Kings-1|1:13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst
not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly
Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why
then doth Adonijah reign?
Kings-1|1:14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also
will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.
Kings-1|1:15 And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and
the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
Kings-1|1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And
the king said, What wouldest thou?
Kings-1|1:17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD
thy God unto thine handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon thy son shall
reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
Kings-1|1:18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the
king, thou knowest [it] not:
Kings-1|1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the
priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he
not called.
Kings-1|1:20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are]
upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my
lord the king after him.
Kings-1|1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king
shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders.
Kings-1|1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the
prophet also came in.
Kings-1|1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet.
And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king
with his face to the ground.
Kings-1|1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah
shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
Kings-1|1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat
cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the
captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and
drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
Kings-1|1:26 But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.
Kings-1|1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not
showed [it] unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the
king after him?
Kings-1|1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And
she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
Kings-1|1:29 And the king sware, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, that
hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
Kings-1|1:30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel,
saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit
upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.
Kings-1|1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with [her] face to the earth, and did
reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
Kings-1|1:32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan
the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the
king.
Kings-1|1:33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of
your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring
him down to Gihon:
Kings-1|1:34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save
king Solomon.
Kings-1|1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may 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.
Kings-1|1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and
said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so [too].
Kings-1|1:37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he
with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king
David.
Kings-1|1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down,
and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to
Gihon.
Kings-1|1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the
tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the
people said, God save king Solomon.
Kings-1|1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped
with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the
sound of them.
Kings-1|1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with him heard
[it] as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of
the trumpet, he said, Wherefore [is this] noise of the city being in an
uproar?
Kings-1|1:42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of
Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou
[art] a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
Kings-1|1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord
king David hath made Solomon king.
Kings-1|1:44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and
Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites,
and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:
Kings-1|1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed
him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the
city rang again. This [is] the noise that ye have heard.
Kings-1|1:46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
Kings-1|1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord
king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and
make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon
the bed.
Kings-1|1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed [be] the LORD God of
Israel, which hath given [one] to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even
seeing [it].
Kings-1|1:49 And all the guests that [were] with Adonijah were afraid,
and rose up, and went every man his way.
Kings-1|1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and
went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Kings-1|1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth
king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar,
saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his
servant with the sword.
Kings-1|1:52 And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man,
there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall
be found in him, he shall die.
Kings-1|1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the
altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto
him, Go to thine house.
Kings-1|2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he
charged Solomon his son, saying,
Kings-1|2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and
show thyself a man;
Kings-1|2:3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his
ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and
his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest
prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
Kings-1|2:4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake
concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk
before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there
shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
Kings-1|2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did
to me, [and] what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto
Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and
shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle
that [was] about his loins, and in his shoes that [were] on his feet.
Kings-1|2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar
head go down to the grave in peace.
Kings-1|2:7 But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite,
and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when
I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
Kings-1|2:8 And, behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when
I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to
him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Kings-1|2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou [art] a wise
man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring
thou down to the grave with blood.
Kings-1|2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
of David.
Kings-1|2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty
years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned
he in Jerusalem.
Kings-1|2:12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and
his kingdom was established greatly.
Kings-1|2:13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the
mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said,
Peaceably.
Kings-1|2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she
said, Say on.
Kings-1|2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and
[that] all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the
kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from
the LORD.
Kings-1|2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she
said unto him, Say on.
Kings-1|2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king,
(for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to
wife.
Kings-1|2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the
king.
Kings-1|2:19 Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto
him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto
her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's
mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Kings-1|2:20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; [I pray
thee], say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I
will not say thee nay.
Kings-1|2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to
Adonijah thy brother to wife.
Kings-1|2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why
dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom
also; for he [is] mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the
priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
Kings-1|2:23 Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to
me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own
life.
Kings-1|2:24 Now therefore, [as] the LORD liveth, which hath established
me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an
house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
Kings-1|2:25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
Kings-1|2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to
Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will
not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord
GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all
wherein my father was afflicted.
Kings-1|2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the
LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning
the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Kings-1|2:28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after
Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the
tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Kings-1|2:29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the
tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, [he is] by the altar. Then Solomon
sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
Kings-1|2:30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said
unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die
here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and
thus he answered me.
Kings-1|2:31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall
upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood,
which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
Kings-1|2:32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who
fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the
sword, my father David not knowing [thereof, to wit], Abner the son of Ner,
captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the
host of Judah.
Kings-1|2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab,
and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed,
and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from
the LORD.
Kings-1|2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him,
and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
Kings-1|2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room
over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of
Abiathar.
Kings-1|2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,
Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence
any whither.
Kings-1|2:37 For it shall be, [that] on the day thou goest out, and
passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt
surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
Kings-1|2:38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying [is] good: as my
lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in
Jerusalem many days.
Kings-1|2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of
the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath.
And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants [be] in Gath.
Kings-1|2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to
Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from
Gath.
Kings-1|2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem
to Gath, and was come again.
Kings-1|2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,
Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying,
Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any
whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word
[that] I have heard [is] good.
Kings-1|2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
commandment that I have charged thee with?
Kings-1|2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the
wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my
father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
Kings-1|2:45 And king Solomon [shall be] blessed, and the throne of
David shall be established before the LORD for ever.
Kings-1|2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which
went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established
in the hand of Solomon.
Kings-1|3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he
had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and
the wall of Jerusalem round about.
Kings-1|3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was
no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
Kings-1|3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David
his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
Kings-1|3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that
[was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer
upon that altar.
Kings-1|3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night:
and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Kings-1|3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my
father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in
righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept
for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his
throne, as [it is] this day.
Kings-1|3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king
instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how]
to go out or come in.
Kings-1|3:8 And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which thou
hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for
multitude.
Kings-1|3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge
thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to
judge this thy so great a people?
Kings-1|3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked
this thing.
Kings-1|3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing,
and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for
thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for
thyself understanding to discern judgment;
Kings-1|3:12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have
given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like
thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Kings-1|3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked,
both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings
like unto thee all thy days.
Kings-1|3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and
my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
days.
Kings-1|3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] a dream. And he
came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a
feast to all his servants.
Kings-1|3:16 Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto the
king, and stood before him.
Kings-1|3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell
in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
Kings-1|3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was
delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we [were] together;
[there was] no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
Kings-1|3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she
overlaid it.
Kings-1|3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me,
while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
child in my bosom.
Kings-1|3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,
behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold,
it was not my son, which I did bear.
Kings-1|3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living [is] my son,
and the dead [is] thy son. And this said, No; but the dead [is] thy son,
and the living [is] my son. Thus they spake before the king.
Kings-1|3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son that
liveth, and thy son [is] the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son
[is] the dead, and my son [is] the living.
Kings-1|3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a
sword before the king.
Kings-1|3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give
half to the one, and half to the other.
Kings-1|3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto the
king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give
her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be
neither mine nor thine, [but] divide [it].
Kings-1|3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child,
and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
Kings-1|3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was]
in him, to do judgment.
Kings-1|4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
Kings-1|4:2 And these [were] the princes which he had; Azariah the son
of Zadok the priest,
Kings-1|4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.
Kings-1|4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the host: and
Zadok and Abiathar [were] the priests:
Kings-1|4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers; and
Zabud the son of Nathan [was] principal officer, [and] the king's friend:
Kings-1|4:6 And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son
of Abda [was] over the tribute.
Kings-1|4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which
provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a
year made provision.
Kings-1|4:8 And these [are] their names: The son of Hur, in mount
Ephraim:
Kings-1|4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and
Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
Kings-1|4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [pertained] Sochoh,
and all the land of Hepher:
Kings-1|4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had
Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
Kings-1|4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; [to him pertained] Taanach and
Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which [is] by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from
Bethshean to Abelmeholah, [even] unto [the place that is] beyond Jokneam:
Kings-1|4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the
towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also
pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, threescore great
cities with walls and brazen bars:
Kings-1|4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:
Kings-1|4:15 Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the
daughter of Solomon to wife:
Kings-1|4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth:
Kings-1|4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
Kings-1|4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
Kings-1|4:19 Geber the son of Uri [was] in the country of Gilead, [in]
the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and
[he was] the only officer which [was] in the land.
Kings-1|4:20 Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the
sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
Kings-1|4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto
the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought
presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Kings-1|4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of
fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
Kings-1|4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an
hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
Kings-1|4:24 For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the
river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the
river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
Kings-1|4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine
and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of
Solomon.
Kings-1|4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
Kings-1|4:27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and
for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they
lacked nothing.
Kings-1|4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries
brought they unto the place where [the officers] were, every man according
to his charge.
Kings-1|4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding
much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
Kings-1|4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Kings-1|4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all
nations round about.
Kings-1|4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
thousand and five.
Kings-1|4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in
Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also
of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Kings-1|4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
Kings-1|5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for
he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for
Hiram was ever a lover of David.
Kings-1|5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
Kings-1|5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an
house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him
on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
Kings-1|5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side,
[so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
Kings-1|5:5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of
the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son,
whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto
my name.
Kings-1|5:6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out
of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will
I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for
thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber
like unto the Sidonians.
Kings-1|5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon,
that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD this day, which
hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.
Kings-1|5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the
things which thou sentest to me for: [and] I will do all thy desire
concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
Kings-1|5:9 My servants shall bring [them] down from Lebanon unto the
sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt
appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt
receive [them]: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my
household.
Kings-1|5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according
to] all his desire.
Kings-1|5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat
[for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave
Solomon to Hiram year by year.
Kings-1|5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and
there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league
together.
Kings-1|5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the
levy was thirty thousand men.
Kings-1|5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by
courses: a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and
Adoniram [was] over the levy.
Kings-1|5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare
burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
Kings-1|5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which [were] over
the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people
that wrought in the work.
Kings-1|5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,
costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
Kings-1|5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them],
and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the
house.
Kings-1|6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year
after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is]
the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
Kings-1|6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the
length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty
[cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
Kings-1|6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits
[was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten
cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
Kings-1|6:4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
Kings-1|6:5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round
about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple
and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
Kings-1|6:6 The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the
middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for
without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that
[the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
Kings-1|6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone
made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer
nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Kings-1|6:8 The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of
the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber],
and out of the middle into the third.
Kings-1|6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the
house with beams and boards of cedar.
Kings-1|6:10 And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five
cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.
Kings-1|6:11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
Kings-1|6:12 [Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou
wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my
commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which
I spake unto David thy father:
Kings-1|6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not
forsake my people Israel.
Kings-1|6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
Kings-1|6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of
cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: [and] he
covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house
with planks of fir.
Kings-1|6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both
the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it
within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].
Kings-1|6:17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty
cubits [long].
Kings-1|6:18 And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops
and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen.
Kings-1|6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set
there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Kings-1|6:20 And the oracle in the forepart [was] twenty cubits in
length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height
thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and [so] covered the altar
[which was of] cedar.
Kings-1|6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he
made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid
it with gold.
Kings-1|6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had
finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he
overlaid with gold.
Kings-1|6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims [of] olive
tree, [each] ten cubits high.
Kings-1|6:24 And five cubits [was] the one wing of the cherub, and five
cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one
wing unto the uttermost part of the other [were] ten cubits.
Kings-1|6:25 And the other cherub [was] ten cubits: both the cherubims
[were] of one measure and one size.
Kings-1|6:26 The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was
it] of the other cherub.
Kings-1|6:27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they
stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one
touched the [one] wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other
wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
Kings-1|6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
Kings-1|6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with
carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and
without.
Kings-1|6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within
and without.
Kings-1|6:31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors [of] olive
tree: the lintel [and] side posts [were] a fifth part [of the wall].
Kings-1|6:32 The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon
them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid
[them] with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm
trees.
Kings-1|6:33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts [of] olive
tree, a fourth part [of the wall].
Kings-1|6:34 And the two doors [were of] fir tree: the two leaves of the
one door [were] folding, and the two leaves of the other door [were]
folding.
Kings-1|6:35 And he carved [thereon] cherubims and palm trees and open
flowers: and covered [them] with gold fitted upon the carved work.
Kings-1|6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed
stone, and a row of cedar beams.
Kings-1|6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the
LORD laid, in the month Zif:
Kings-1|6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which [is] the
eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and
according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
Kings-1|7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and
he finished all his house.
Kings-1|7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length
thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and
the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with
cedar beams upon the pillars.
Kings-1|7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that
[lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
Kings-1|7:4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was]
against light [in] three ranks.
Kings-1|7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows:
and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
Kings-1|7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was]
fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was]
before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.
Kings-1|7:7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge,
[even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side
of the floor to the other.
Kings-1|7:8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the
porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for
Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken [to wife], like unto this porch.
Kings-1|7:9 All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures
of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the
foundation unto the coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.
Kings-1|7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great
stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
Kings-1|7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed
stones, and cedars.
Kings-1|7:12 And the great court round about [was] with three rows of
hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the
house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
Kings-1|7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
Kings-1|7:14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his
father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with
wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he
came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
Kings-1|7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high
apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
Kings-1|7:16 And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon
the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits,
and the height of the other chapiter [was] five cubits:
Kings-1|7:17 [And] nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for
the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one
chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
Kings-1|7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the
one network, to cover the chapiters that [were] upon the top, with
pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
Kings-1|7:19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars
[were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
Kings-1|7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars [had pomegranates]
also above, over against the belly which [was] by the network: and the
pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other
chapiter.
Kings-1|7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and
he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set
up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
Kings-1|7:22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the
work of the pillars finished.
Kings-1|7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and
a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Kings-1|7:24 And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops
compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops
[were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.
Kings-1|7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north,
and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and
three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and
all their hinder parts [were] inward.
Kings-1|7:26 And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof
was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained
two thousand baths.
Kings-1|7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the
length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits
the height of it.
Kings-1|7:28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had
borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:
Kings-1|7:29 And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were]
lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above:
and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work.
Kings-1|7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass:
and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were]
undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
Kings-1|7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above [was] a
cubit: but the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a
cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their
borders, foursquare, not round.
Kings-1|7:32 And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees
of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the height of a wheel [was] a
cubit and half a cubit.
Kings-1|7:33 And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot
wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their
spokes, [were] all molten.
Kings-1|7:34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of
one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself.
Kings-1|7:35 And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of
half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the
borders thereof [were] of the same.
Kings-1|7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders
thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the
proportion of every one, and additions round about.
Kings-1|7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had
one casting, one measure, [and] one size.
Kings-1|7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten
bases one laver.
Kings-1|7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and
five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of
the house eastward over against the south.
Kings-1|7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins.
So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for
the house of the LORD:
Kings-1|7:41 The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the chapiters that
[were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the
two bowls of the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars;
Kings-1|7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, [even]
two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the
chapiters that [were] upon the pillars;
Kings-1|7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
Kings-1|7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
Kings-1|7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all
these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD,
[were of] bright brass.
Kings-1|7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
Kings-1|7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they
were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
Kings-1|7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the
house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
showbread [was],
Kings-1|7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right
[side], and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the
lamps, and the tongs [of] gold,
Kings-1|7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the
spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both]
for the doors of the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors
of the house, [to wit], of the temple.
Kings-1|7:51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the
house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father
had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put
among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
Kings-1|8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the
heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel,
unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the
covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion.
Kings-1|8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king
Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which [is] the seventh month.
Kings-1|8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up
the ark.
Kings-1|8:4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle
of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that [were] in the
tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
Kings-1|8:5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that
were assembled unto him, [were] with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep
and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
Kings-1|8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the
LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place,
even] under the wings of the cherubims.
Kings-1|8:7 For the cherubims spread forth [their] two wings over the
place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof
above.
Kings-1|8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves
were seen out in the holy [place] before the oracle, and they were not seen
without: and there they are unto this day.
Kings-1|8:9 [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone,
which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the
children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Kings-1|8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the
holy [place], that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
Kings-1|8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of
the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
Kings-1|8:12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in
the thick darkness.
Kings-1|8:13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled
place for thee to abide in for ever.
Kings-1|8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the
congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
Kings-1|8:15 And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which
spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled
[it], saying,
Kings-1|8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of
Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house,
that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people
Israel.
Kings-1|8:17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an
house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
Kings-1|8:18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in
thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in
thine heart.
Kings-1|8:19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my
name.
Kings-1|8:20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I
am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of
Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
Kings-1|8:21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein [is] the
covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them
out of the land of Egypt.
Kings-1|8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven:
Kings-1|8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like
thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy
with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
Kings-1|8:24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou
promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [it]
with thine hand, as [it is] this day.
Kings-1|8:25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee
a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take
heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
Kings-1|8:26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be
verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
Kings-1|8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven
and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I
have builded?
Kings-1|8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and
to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the
prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
Kings-1|8:29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and
day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be
there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall
make toward this place.
Kings-1|8:30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of
thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in
heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
Kings-1|8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be
laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar
in this house:
Kings-1|8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the
righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Kings-1|8:33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and
confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
Kings-1|8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
fathers.
Kings-1|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 confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
Kings-1|8:36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way
wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast
given to thy people for an inheritance.
Kings-1|8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,
blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpillar; if their enemy
besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever
sickness [there be];
Kings-1|8:38 What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by any man,
[or] by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his
own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Kings-1|8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive,
and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou
knowest; (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the
children of men;)
Kings-1|8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Kings-1|8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that [is] not of thy people
Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
Kings-1|8:42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong
hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward
this house;
Kings-1|8:43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to
all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may
know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may
know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
Kings-1|8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the
city which thou hast chosen, and [toward] the house that I have built for
thy name:
Kings-1|8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
Kings-1|8:46 If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that
sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy,
so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or
near;
Kings-1|8:47 [Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither
they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in
the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and
have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
Kings-1|8:48 And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with
all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive,
and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers,
the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy
name:
Kings-1|8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in
heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Kings-1|8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and
all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and
give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may
have compassion on them:
Kings-1|8:51 For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
Kings-1|8:52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy
servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto
them in all that they call for unto thee.
Kings-1|8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of
the earth, [to be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses
thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
Kings-1|8:54 And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an end of
praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from
before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands
spread up to heaven.
Kings-1|8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel
with a loud voice, saying,
Kings-1|8:56 Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people
Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word
of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his
servant.
Kings-1|8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:
let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
Kings-1|8:58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his
ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments,
which he commanded our fathers.
Kings-1|8:59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication
before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he
maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at
all times, as the matter shall require:
Kings-1|8:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD
[is] God, [and that there is] none else.
Kings-1|8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God,
to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
Kings-1|8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice
before the LORD.
Kings-1|8:63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which
he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and
twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated
the house of the LORD.
Kings-1|8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court
that [was] before the house of the LORD for there he offered burnt
offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because
the brazen altar that [was] before the LORD [was] too little to receive the
burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
Kings-1|8:65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with
him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of
Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, [even] fourteen
days.
Kings-1|8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed
the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the
goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his
people.
Kings-1|9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building
of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire
which he was pleased to do,
Kings-1|9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
appeared unto him at Gibeon.
Kings-1|9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house,
which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and
mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Kings-1|9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked,
in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I
have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
Kings-1|9:5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel
for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail
thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
Kings-1|9:6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have
set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
Kings-1|9:7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have
given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast
out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
people:
Kings-1|9:8 And at this house, [which] is high, every one that passeth
by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the
LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Kings-1|9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their
God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have
taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
Kings-1|9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when
Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's
house,
Kings-1|9:11 ([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with
cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,)
that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Kings-1|9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which
Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
Kings-1|9:13 And he said, What cities [are] these which thou hast given
me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
Kings-1|9:14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
Kings-1|9:15 And this [is] the reason of the levy which king Solomon
raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo,
and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
Kings-1|9:16 [For] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer,
and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city,
and given it [for] a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
Kings-1|9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
Kings-1|9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
Kings-1|9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities
for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon
desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his
dominion.
Kings-1|9:20 [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the
children of Israel,
Kings-1|9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom
the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those
did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
Kings-1|9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen:
but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
Kings-1|9:23 These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over
Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people
that wrought in the work.
Kings-1|9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David
unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.
Kings-1|9:25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings
and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he
burnt incense upon the altar that [was] before the LORD. So he finished the
house.
Kings-1|9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which
[is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Kings-1|9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had
knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
Kings-1|9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four
hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.
Kings-1|10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon
concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
Kings-1|10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with
camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when
she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her
heart.
Kings-1|10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not [any]
thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
Kings-1|10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom,
and the house that he had built,
Kings-1|10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers,
and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no
more spirit in her.
Kings-1|10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard
in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
Kings-1|10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine
eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and
prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Kings-1|10:8 Happy [are] thy men, happy [are] these thy servants, which
stand continually before thee, [and] that hear thy wisdom.
Kings-1|10:9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to
set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
Kings-1|10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of
gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no
more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to
king Solomon.
Kings-1|10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir,
brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
Kings-1|10:12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house
of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for
singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
Kings-1|10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her
desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which Solomon gave her of his
royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her
servants.
Kings-1|10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year
was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
Kings-1|10:15 Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the
traffic of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the
governors of the country.
Kings-1|10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten
gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.
Kings-1|10:17 And [he made] three hundred shields [of] beaten gold;
three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house
of the forest of Lebanon.
Kings-1|10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with the best gold.
Kings-1|10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne [was]
round behind: and [there were] stays on either side on the place of the
seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
Kings-1|10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the
other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Kings-1|10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels [were of] gold,
and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [were of] pure
gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of
Solomon.
Kings-1|10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy
of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Kings-1|10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for
riches and for wisdom.
Kings-1|10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
which God had put in his heart.
Kings-1|10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,
and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and
mules, a rate year by year.
Kings-1|10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and
he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at
Jerusalem.
Kings-1|10:27 And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones,
and cedars made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale,
for abundance.
Kings-1|10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen
yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
Kings-1|10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six
hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so
for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they
bring [them] out by their means.
Kings-1|11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with
the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, [and] Hittites;
Kings-1|11:2 Of the nations [concerning] which the LORD said unto the
children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in
unto you: [for] surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:
Solomon clave unto these in love.
Kings-1|11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three
hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Kings-1|11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives
turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with
the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.
Kings-1|11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Kings-1|11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not
fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father.
Kings-1|11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for
Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Kings-1|11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt
incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
Kings-1|11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was
turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
Kings-1|11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he
should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD
commanded.
Kings-1|11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is
done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will
give it to thy servant.
Kings-1|11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy
father's sake: [but] I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Kings-1|11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will
give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's
sake which I have chosen.
Kings-1|11:14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad
the Edomite: he [was] of the king's seed in Edom.
Kings-1|11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the
captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten
every male in Edom;
Kings-1|11:16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel,
until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
Kings-1|11:17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's
servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad [being] yet a little child.
Kings-1|11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they
took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him
land.
Kings-1|11:19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so
that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes
the queen.
Kings-1|11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom
Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household
among the sons of Pharaoh.
Kings-1|11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his
fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to
Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
Kings-1|11:22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with
me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered,
Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
Kings-1|11:23 And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son
of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
Kings-1|11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a
band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt
therein, and reigned in Damascus.
Kings-1|11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
beside the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned
over Syria.
Kings-1|11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
Solomon's servant, whose mother's name [was] Zeruah, a widow woman, even he
lifted up [his] hand against the king.
Kings-1|11:27 And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand
against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the
city of David his father.
Kings-1|11:28 And the man Jeroboam [was] a mighty man of valour: and
Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler
over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
Kings-1|11:29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and
he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two [were] alone in the
field:
Kings-1|11:30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that [was] on him, and
rent it [in] twelve pieces:
Kings-1|11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus
saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of
the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
Kings-1|11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake,
and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the
tribes of Israel:)
Kings-1|11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites,
and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my
ways, to do [that which is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes
and my judgments, as [did] David his father.
Kings-1|11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand:
but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's
sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
Kings-1|11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and
will give it unto thee, [even] ten tribes.
Kings-1|11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my
servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I
have chosen me to put my name there.
Kings-1|11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to
all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
Kings-1|11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I
command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight,
to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I
will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and
will give Israel unto thee.
Kings-1|11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for
ever.
Kings-1|11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam
arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt
until the death of Solomon.
Kings-1|11:41 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,
and his wisdom, [are] they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
Kings-1|11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
Israel [was] forty years.
Kings-1|11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the
city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to
Shechem to make him king.
Kings-1|12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
was yet in Egypt, heard [of it], (for he was fled from the presence of king
Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
Kings-1|12:3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the
congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,
Kings-1|12:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou
the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon
us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Kings-1|12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days, then
come again to me. And the people departed.
Kings-1|12:6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood
before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise
that I may answer this people?
Kings-1|12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant
unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak
good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
Kings-1|12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had
given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him,
[and] which stood before him:
Kings-1|12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may
answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy
father did put upon us lighter?
Kings-1|12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto
him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee,
saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter unto us;
thus shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my
father's loins.
Kings-1|12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke,
I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scorpions.
Kings-1|12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third
day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
Kings-1|12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the
old men's counsel that they gave him;
Kings-1|12:14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men,
saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my
father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions.
Kings-1|12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the
cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD
spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Kings-1|12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto
them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel:
now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
Kings-1|12:17 But [as for] the children of Israel which dwelt in the
cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Kings-1|12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who [was] over the
tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore
king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem.
Kings-1|12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this
day.
Kings-1|12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam
was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and
made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of
David, but the tribe of Judah only.
Kings-1|12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all
the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore
thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of
Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
Kings-1|12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God,
saying,
Kings-1|12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah,
and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the
people, saying,
Kings-1|12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against
your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for
this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD,
and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
Kings-1|12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt
therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
Kings-1|12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom
return to the house of David:
Kings-1|12:27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the
LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto
their lord, [even] unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and
go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
Kings-1|12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves [of]
gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Kings-1|12:29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
Kings-1|12:30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to
worship] before the one, [even] unto Dan.
Kings-1|12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of
the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
Kings-1|12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that [is] in Judah, and he
offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves
that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places
which he had made.
Kings-1|12:33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel
the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had
devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel:
and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
Kings-1|13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the
word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn
incense.
Kings-1|13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and
said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born
unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the
priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones
shall be burnt upon thee.
Kings-1|13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign
which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes
that [are] upon it shall be poured out.
Kings-1|13:4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of
the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put
forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which
he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again
to him.
Kings-1|13:5 The altar also was rent, 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.
Kings-1|13:6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Entreat
now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's
hand was restored him again, and became as [it was] before.
Kings-1|13:7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me,
and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.
Kings-1|13:8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me
half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor
drink water in this place:
Kings-1|13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying,
Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou
camest.
Kings-1|13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that
he came to Bethel.
Kings-1|13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons
came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in
Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to
their father.
Kings-1|13:12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his
sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.
Kings-1|13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they
saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
Kings-1|13:14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under
an oak: and he said unto him, [Art] thou the man of God that camest from
Judah? And he said, I [am].
Kings-1|13:15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
Kings-1|13:16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with
thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
Kings-1|13:17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt
eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that
thou camest.
Kings-1|13:18 He said unto him, I [am] a prophet also as thou [art]; and
an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with
thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied
unto him.
Kings-1|13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house,
and drank water.
Kings-1|13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the
word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
Kings-1|13:21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of
the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God
commanded thee,
Kings-1|13:22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in
the place, of the which [the LORD] did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink
no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
Kings-1|13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after
he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, [to wit], for the prophet
whom he had brought back.
Kings-1|13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew
him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion
also stood by the carcase.
Kings-1|13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in
the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told [it]
in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
Kings-1|13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way
heard [thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto
the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion,
which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake unto him.
Kings-1|13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And
they saddled [him].
Kings-1|13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the
ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the
carcase, nor torn the ass.
Kings-1|13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and
laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the
city, to mourn and to bury him.
Kings-1|13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned
over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
Kings-1|13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he
spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre
wherein the man of God [is] buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
Kings-1|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 Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
Kings-1|13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way,
but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of
the high places.
Kings-1|13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even
to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the earth.
Kings-1|14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
Kings-1|14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and
get thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me
that [I should be] king over this people.
Kings-1|14:3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse
of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
Kings-1|14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh,
and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes
were set by reason of his age.
Kings-1|14:5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus
shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she
shall feign herself [to be] another [woman].
Kings-1|14:6 And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet,
as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam;
why feignest thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with]
heavy [tidings].
Kings-1|14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince
over my people Israel,
Kings-1|14:8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave
it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my
commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only
[which was] right in mine eyes;
Kings-1|14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for
thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me
to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
Kings-1|14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of
Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall,
[and] him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the
remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all
gone.
Kings-1|14:11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat;
and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the
LORD hath spoken [it].
Kings-1|14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: [and]
when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
Kings-1|14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he
only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found
[some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
Kings-1|14:14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel,
who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
Kings-1|14:15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in
the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave
to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they
have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
Kings-1|14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of
Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
Kings-1|14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to
Tirzah: [and] when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
Kings-1|14:18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his
servant Ahijah the prophet.
Kings-1|14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and
how he reigned, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
Kings-1|14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty
years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his
stead.
Kings-1|14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam
[was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all
the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was]
Naamah an Ammonitess.
Kings-1|14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above
all that their fathers had done.
Kings-1|14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and
groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Kings-1|14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did
according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel.
Kings-1|14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
[that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
Kings-1|14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD,
and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took
away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Kings-1|14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and
committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the
door of the king's house.
Kings-1|14:28 And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the
LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard
chamber.
Kings-1|14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-1|14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
[their] days.
Kings-1|14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an
Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of
Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
Kings-1|15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
[was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Kings-1|15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had
done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as
the heart of David his father.
Kings-1|15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him
a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
Jerusalem:
Kings-1|15:5 Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the
LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the
days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Kings-1|15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the
days of his life.
Kings-1|15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
Kings-1|15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel
reigned Asa over Judah.
Kings-1|15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Kings-1|15:11 And Asa did [that which was] right in the eyes of the
LORD, as [did] David his father.
Kings-1|15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Kings-1|15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from
[being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed
her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.
Kings-1|15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's
heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
Kings-1|15:15 And he brought in the things which his father had
dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of
the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
Kings-1|15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
all their days.
Kings-1|15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built
Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah.
Kings-1|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 delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent
them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria,
that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
Kings-1|15:19 [There is] a league between me and thee, [and] between my
father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver
and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may
depart from me.
Kings-1|15:20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains
of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and
Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
Kings-1|15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [thereof], that he
left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
Kings-1|15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah;
none [was] exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber
thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of
Benjamin, and Mizpah.
Kings-1|15:23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and
all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time
of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
Kings-1|15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in
his stead.
Kings-1|15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel
in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
Kings-1|15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
Kings-1|15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,
conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged]
to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
Kings-1|15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha
slay him, and reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote all
the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he
had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by
his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
Kings-1|15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which
he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God
of Israel to anger.
Kings-1|15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
Kings-1|15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel
all their days.
Kings-1|15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the
son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
Kings-1|15:34 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in
the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
Kings-1|16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, saying,
Kings-1|16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee
prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam,
and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their
sins;
Kings-1|16:3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the
posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
Kings-1|16:4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat;
and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
Kings-1|16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and
his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
Kings-1|16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah:
and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|16:7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani
came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for
all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to
anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and
because he killed him.
Kings-1|16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began
Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
Kings-1|16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots,
conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the
house of Arza steward of [his] house in Tirzah.
Kings-1|16:10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the
twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he
sat on his throne, [that] he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not
one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his
friends.
Kings-1|16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according
to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
Kings-1|16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,
by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking
the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Kings-1|16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
Kings-1|16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did
Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped against
Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines.
Kings-1|16:16 And the people [that were] encamped heard say, Zimri hath
conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri,
the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
Kings-1|16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,
and they besieged Tirzah.
Kings-1|16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was
taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the
king's house over him with fire, and died,
Kings-1|16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of
the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did,
to make Israel to sin.
Kings-1|16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he
wrought, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel?
Kings-1|16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts:
half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and
half followed Omri.
Kings-1|16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the
people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri
reigned.
Kings-1|16:23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began
Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
Kings-1|16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents
of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he
built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
Kings-1|16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did
worse than all that [were] before him.
Kings-1|16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of
Israel to anger with their vanities.
Kings-1|16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his
might that he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
Kings-1|16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria:
and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah
began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri
reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
Kings-1|16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD
above all that [were] before him.
Kings-1|16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for
him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served
Baal, and worshipped him.
Kings-1|16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal,
which he had built in Samaria.
Kings-1|16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the
LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before
him.
Kings-1|16:34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid
the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates
thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Kings-1|17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of
Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I
stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my
word.
Kings-1|17:2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
Kings-1|17:3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by
the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
Kings-1|17:4 And it shall be, [that] thou shalt drink of the brook; and
I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
Kings-1|17:5 So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for
he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that [is] before Jordan.
Kings-1|17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning,
and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Kings-1|17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,
because there had been no rain in the land.
Kings-1|17:8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
Kings-1|17:9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon,
and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain
thee.
Kings-1|17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the
gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks:
and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a
vessel, that I may drink.
Kings-1|17:11 And as she was going to fetch [it], he called to her, and
said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
Kings-1|17:12 And she said, [As] the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a
cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and,
behold, I [am] gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me
at we may eat it, and die.
Kings-1|17:13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go [and] do as thou
hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring [it] unto me,
and after make for thee and for thy son.
Kings-1|17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal
shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that]
the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
Kings-1|17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah:
and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
Kings-1|17:16 [And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse
of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
Kings-1|17:17 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the son of
the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so
sore, that there was no breath left in him.
Kings-1|17:18 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?
Kings-1|17:19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out
of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him
upon his own bed.
Kings-1|17:20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast
thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her
son?
Kings-1|17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and
cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's
soul come into him again.
Kings-1|17:22 And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of
the child came into him again, and he revived.
Kings-1|17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the
chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said,
See, thy son liveth.
Kings-1|17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou
[art] a man of God, [and] that the word of the LORD in thy mouth [is]
truth.
Kings-1|18:1 And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the
LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab;
and I will send rain upon the earth.
Kings-1|18:2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And [there was]
a sore famine in Samaria.
Kings-1|18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his]
house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
Kings-1|18:4 For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the
LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a
cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Kings-1|18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all
fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to
save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
Kings-1|18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout
it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
Kings-1|18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and
he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord
Elijah?
Kings-1|18:8 And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold,
Elijah [is here].
Kings-1|18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver
thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
Kings-1|18:10 [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or
kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said,
[He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they
found thee not.
Kings-1|18:11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is
here].
Kings-1|18:12 And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from
thee, that the spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and
[so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:
but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
Kings-1|18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the
prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by
fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
Kings-1|18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is
here]: and he shall slay me.
Kings-1|18:15 And Elijah said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before
whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.
Kings-1|18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went
to meet Elijah.
Kings-1|18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said
unto him, [Art] thou he that troubleth Israel?
Kings-1|18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and
thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD,
and thou hast followed Baalim.
Kings-1|18:19 Now therefore send, [and] gather to me all Israel unto
mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the
prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
Kings-1|18:20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered
the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
Kings-1|18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long
halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [be] God, follow him: but if
Baal, [then] follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Kings-1|18:22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain
a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets [are] four hundred and fifty
men.
Kings-1|18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them
choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay [it] on
wood, and put no fire [under]: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay
[it] on wood, and put no fire [under]:
Kings-1|18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on
the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.
And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
Kings-1|18:25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one
bullock for yourselves, and dress [it] first; for ye [are] many; and call
on the name of your gods, but put no fire [under].
Kings-1|18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they
dressed [it], and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,
saying, O Baal, hear us. But [there was] no voice, nor any that answered.
And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
Kings-1|18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and
said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is
pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be
awaked.
Kings-1|18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their
manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Kings-1|18:29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they
prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the [evening] sacrifice,
that [there was] neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
Kings-1|18:30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me.
And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the
LORD [that was] broken down.
Kings-1|18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of
the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came,
saying, Israel shall be thy name:
Kings-1|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.
Kings-1|18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in
pieces, and laid [him] on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water,
and pour [it] on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
Kings-1|18:34 And he said, Do [it] the second time. And they did [it]
the second time. And he said, Do [it] the third time. And they did [it] the
third time.
Kings-1|18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the
trench also with water.
Kings-1|18:36 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.
Kings-1|18:37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that
thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back
again.
Kings-1|18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt
sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the
water that [was] in the trench.
Kings-1|18:39 And when all the people saw [it], they fell on their
faces: and they said, The LORD, he [is] the God; the LORD, he [is] the God.
Kings-1|18:40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let
not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to
the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Kings-1|18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for
[there is] a sound of abundance of rain.
Kings-1|18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to
the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his
face between his knees,
Kings-1|18:43 And 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.
Kings-1|18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said,
Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And
he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot], and get thee down,
that the rain stop thee not.
Kings-1|18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was
black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and
went to Jezreel.
Kings-1|18:46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up
his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Kings-1|19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal
how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
Kings-1|19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let
the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of
one of them by to morrow about this time.
Kings-1|19:3 And when he saw [that], he arose, and went for his life,
and came to Beersheba, which [belongeth] to Judah, and left his servant
there.
Kings-1|19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself
that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life;
for I [am] not better than my fathers.
Kings-1|19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then
an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.
Kings-1|19:6 And he looked, and, behold, [there was] a cake baken on the
coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid
him down again.
Kings-1|19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and
touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because the journey [is] too great
for thee.
Kings-1|19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the
strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of
God.
Kings-1|19:9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and,
behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, and he said unto him, What
doest thou here, Elijah?
Kings-1|19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down
thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only,
am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Kings-1|19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD
[was] not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD
[was] not in the earthquake:
Kings-1|19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was] not
in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Kings-1|19:13 And it was [so], when Elijah heard [it] that he wrapped
his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the
cave. And, behold, [there came] a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou
here, Elijah?
Kings-1|19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown
down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I
only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Kings-1|19:15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the
wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael [to be] king
over Syria:
Kings-1|19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be] king
over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint
[to be] prophet in thy room.
Kings-1|19:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the
sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of
Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Kings-1|19:18 Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the
knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed
him.
Kings-1|19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he
with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
Kings-1|19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let
me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow
thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
Kings-1|19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen,
and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and
gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after
Elijah, and ministered unto him.
Kings-1|20:1 And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host
together: and [there were] thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and
chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
Kings-1|20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the
city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,
Kings-1|20:3 Thy silver and thy gold [is] mine; thy wives also and thy
children, [even] the goodliest, [are] mine.
Kings-1|20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king,
according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.
Kings-1|20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh
Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt
deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
Kings-1|20:6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this
time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants;
and it shall be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall
put [it] in their hand, and take [it] away.
Kings-1|20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land,
and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for he
sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for
my gold; and I denied him not.
Kings-1|20:8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him,
Hearken not [unto him], nor consent.
Kings-1|20:9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my
lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I
will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and
brought him word again.
Kings-1|20:10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto
me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for
all the people that follow me.
Kings-1|20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let
not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that putteth it
off.
Kings-1|20:12 And it came to pass, when [Benhadad] heard this message,
as he [was] drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto
his servants, Set [yourselves in array]. And they set [themselves in array]
against the city.
Kings-1|20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of
Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great
multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou
shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
Kings-1|20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD,
[Even] by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who
shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
Kings-1|20:15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the
provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he
numbered all the people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven
thousand.
Kings-1|20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad [was] drinking
himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings
that helped him.
Kings-1|20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out
first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come
out of Samaria.
Kings-1|20:18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them
alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
Kings-1|20:19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came
out of the city, and the army which followed them.
Kings-1|20:20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and
Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse
with the horsemen.
Kings-1|20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and
chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
Kings-1|20:22 And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto
him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the
return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
Kings-1|20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their
gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let
us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than
they.
Kings-1|20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of
his place, and put captains in their rooms:
Kings-1|20:25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast
lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against
them in the plain, [and] surely we shall be stronger than they. And he
hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
Kings-1|20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that
Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against
Israel.
Kings-1|20:27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all
present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before
them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
Kings-1|20:28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of
Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The
LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore
will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know
that I [am] the LORD.
Kings-1|20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days.
And [so] it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the
children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one
day.
Kings-1|20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and [there] a
wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men [that were] left. And
Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
Kings-1|20:31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard
that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray
thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to
the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
Kings-1|20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes
on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant
Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive?
he [is] my brother.
Kings-1|20:33 Now the men did diligently observe whether [any thing
would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy
brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth
to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
Kings-1|20:34 And [Benhadad] said unto him, The cities, which my father
took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee
in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then [said Ahab], I will send
thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him
away.
Kings-1|20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto
his neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man
refused to smite him.
Kings-1|20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the
voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion
shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him,
and slew him.
Kings-1|20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray
thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded [him].
Kings-1|20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the
way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
Kings-1|20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he
said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man
turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any
means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou
shalt pay a talent of silver.
Kings-1|20:40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
And the king of Israel said unto him, So [shall] thy judgment [be]; thyself
hast decided [it].
Kings-1|20:41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and
the king of Israel discerned him that he [was] of the prophets.
Kings-1|20:42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou
hast let go out of [thy] hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction,
therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
Kings-1|20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and
displeased, and came to Samaria.
Kings-1|21:1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the
Jezreelite had a vineyard, which [was] in Jezreel, hard by the palace of
Ahab king of Samaria.
Kings-1|21:2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard,
that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my
house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it
seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
Kings-1|21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I
should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
Kings-1|21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because
of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said,
I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down
upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Kings-1|21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is
thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
Kings-1|21:6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the
Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if
it please thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he
answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
Kings-1|21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern
the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be
merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Kings-1|21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed [them] with
his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that
[were] in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
Kings-1|21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and
set Naboth on high among the people:
Kings-1|21:10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear
witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And
[then] carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
Kings-1|21:11 And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles
who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them,
[and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
Kings-1|21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the
people.
Kings-1|21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat
before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against
Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and
the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with
stones, that he died.
Kings-1|21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and
is dead.
Kings-1|21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of
the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for
money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
Kings-1|21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,
that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to
take possession of it.
Kings-1|21:17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying,
Kings-1|21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which [is] in
Samaria: behold, [he is] in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down
to possess it.
Kings-1|21:19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the
LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak
unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the
blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Kings-1|21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
And he answered, I have found [thee]; because thou hast sold thyself to
work evil in the sight of the LORD.
Kings-1|21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away
thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the
wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
Kings-1|21:22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the
provocation wherewith thou hast provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel to
sin.
Kings-1|21:23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall
eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
Kings-1|21:24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and
him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
Kings-1|21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself
to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred
up.
Kings-1|21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according
to all [things] as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel.
Kings-1|21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he
rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
sackcloth, and went softly.
Kings-1|21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying,
Kings-1|21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he
humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in
his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Kings-1|22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria
and Israel.
Kings-1|22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
Kings-1|22:3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that
Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the
hand of the king of Syria?
Kings-1|22:4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to
battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I [am]
as thou [art], my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
Kings-1|22:5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I
pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
Kings-1|22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together,
about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead
to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall
deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
Kings-1|22:7 And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the
LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?
Kings-1|22:8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is]
yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD:
but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And
Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Kings-1|22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten
[hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah.
Kings-1|22:10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the
entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before
them.
Kings-1|22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron:
and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians,
until thou have consumed them.
Kings-1|22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to
Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the king's
hand.
Kings-1|22:13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto
him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the
king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of
them, and speak [that which is] good.
Kings-1|22:14 And Micaiah said, [As] the LORD liveth, what the LORD
saith unto me, that will I speak.
Kings-1|22:15 So he came to the king. And the king said unto him,
Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear?
And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into
the hand of the king.
Kings-1|22:16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure
thee that thou tell me nothing but [that which is] true in the name of the
LORD?
Kings-1|22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as
sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master:
let them return every man to his house in peace.
Kings-1|22:18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not
tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
Kings-1|22:19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I
saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by
him on his right hand and on his left.
Kings-1|22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go
up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said
on that manner.
Kings-1|22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD,
and said, I will persuade him.
Kings-1|22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will
go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do
so.
Kings-1|22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in
the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil
concerning thee.
Kings-1|22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote
Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from
me to speak unto thee?
Kings-1|22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when
thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
Kings-1|22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him
back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
Kings-1|22:27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the
prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction,
until I come in peace.
Kings-1|22:28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD
hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.
Kings-1|22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
went up to Ramothgilead.
Kings-1|22:30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will
disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And
the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
Kings-1|22:31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two
captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small
nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
Kings-1|22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel. And they
turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
Kings-1|22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots
perceived that it [was] not the king of Israel, that they turned back from
pursuing him.
Kings-1|22:34 And a [certain] man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the
king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto
the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host;
for I am wounded.
Kings-1|22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed
up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran
out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
Kings-1|22:36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about
the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to
his own country.
Kings-1|22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they
buried the king in Samaria.
Kings-1|22:38 And [one] washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and
the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto
the word of the LORD which he spake.
Kings-1|22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and
the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Kings-1|22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son
reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah
in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
Kings-1|22:42 Jehoshaphat [was] thirty and five years old when he began
to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name [was] Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
Kings-1|22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned
not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD:
nevertheless the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered
and burnt incense yet in the high places.
Kings-1|22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
Kings-1|22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might
that he showed, and how he warred, [are] they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-1|22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the
days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
Kings-1|22:47 [There was] then no king in Edom: a deputy [was] king.
Kings-1|22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for
gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
Kings-1|22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my
servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
Kings-1|22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son
reigned in his stead.
Kings-1|22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two
years over Israel.
Kings-1|22:52 And he did 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
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
Kings-1|22:53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to
anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
Kings-2|1:1 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
Kings-2|1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber
that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto
them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of
this disease.
Kings-2|1:3 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,
Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto
them, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to
inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
Kings-2|1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down
from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah
departed.
Kings-2|1:5 And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto
them, Why are ye now turned back?
Kings-2|1:6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and
said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him,
Thus saith the LORD, [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel,
[that] thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore
thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die.
Kings-2|1:7 And he said unto them, What manner of man [was he] which
came up to meet you, and told you these words?
Kings-2|1:8 And they answered him, [He was] an hairy man, and girt with
a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the
Tishbite.
Kings-2|1:9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his
fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill.
And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
Kings-2|1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I
[be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee
and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and
his fifty.
Kings-2|1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with
his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the
king said, Come down quickly.
Kings-2|1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I [be] a man of
God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And
the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
Kings-2|1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his
fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his
knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I
pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be
precious in thy sight.
Kings-2|1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the
two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my
life now be precious in thy sight.
Kings-2|1:15 And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with
him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the
king.
Kings-2|1:16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as
thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, [is it]
not because [there is] no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore
thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt
surely die.
Kings-2|1:17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah
had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram
the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
Kings-2|1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, [are]
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Kings-2|2:1 And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into
heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
Kings-2|2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for
the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said [unto him, As] the LORD
liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down
to Bethel.
Kings-2|2:3 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came
forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take
away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know [it]; hold
ye your peace.
Kings-2|2:4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee;
for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth,
and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
Kings-2|2:5 And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Jericho came to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy
master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it]; hold ye
your peace.
Kings-2|2:6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as]
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
Kings-2|2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to
view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
Kings-2|2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and
smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they
two went over on dry ground.
Kings-2|2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah
said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from
thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be
upon me.
Kings-2|2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: [nevertheless],
if thou see me [when I am] taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but
if not, it shall not be [so].
Kings-2|2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,
that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and
parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Kings-2|2:12 And Elisha saw [it], and he cried, My father, my father,
the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more:
and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Kings-2|2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
Kings-2|2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and
smote the waters, and said, Where [is] the LORD God of Elijah? and when he
also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha
went over.
Kings-2|2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at
Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And
they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
Kings-2|2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy
servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master:
lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him
upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
Kings-2|2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him
not.
Kings-2|2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at
Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
Kings-2|2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray
thee, the situation of this city [is] pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the
water [is] nought, and the ground barren.
Kings-2|2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.
And they brought [it] to him.
Kings-2|2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast
the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these
waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].
Kings-2|2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
saying of Elisha which he spake.
Kings-2|2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going
up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked
him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Kings-2|2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in
the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood,
and tare forty and two children of them.
Kings-2|2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
returned to Samaria.
Kings-2|3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in
Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned
twelve years.
Kings-2|3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like
his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his
father had made.
Kings-2|3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
Kings-2|3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto
the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams,
with the wool.
Kings-2|3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of
Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
Kings-2|3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and
numbered all Israel.
Kings-2|3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah,
saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me
against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am] as thou [art], my
people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses.
Kings-2|3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The
way through the wilderness of Edom.
Kings-2|3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the
king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there
was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
Kings-2|3:10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath
called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
Kings-2|3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the
LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of
Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat,
which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
Kings-2|3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
Kings-2|3:13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do
with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of
thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath
called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
Kings-2|3:14 And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom
I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the
king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
Kings-2|3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
Kings-2|3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of
ditches.
Kings-2|3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither
shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may
drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
Kings-2|3:18 And this is [but] a light thing in the sight of the LORD:
he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
Kings-2|3:19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice
city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar
every good piece of land with stones.
Kings-2|3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering
was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the
country was filled with water.
Kings-2|3:21 And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up
to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour,
and upward, and stood in the border.
Kings-2|3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone
upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side [as] red
as blood:
Kings-2|3:23 And they said, This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain,
and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
Kings-2|3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites
rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they
went forward smiting the Moabites, even in [their] country.
Kings-2|3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of
land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the
wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left
they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote
it.
Kings-2|3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore
for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break
through [even] unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
Kings-2|3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his
stead, and offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was
great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned
to [their own] land.
Kings-2|4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of
the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou
knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to
take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Kings-2|4:2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me,
what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any
thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
Kings-2|4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy
neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
Kings-2|4:4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon
thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou
shalt set aside that which is full.
Kings-2|4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon
her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.
Kings-2|4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is]
not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
Kings-2|4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell
the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
Kings-2|4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where
[was] a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And [so] it was,
[that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Kings-2|4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that
this [is] an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
Kings-2|4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and
let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a
candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in
thither.
Kings-2|4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned
into the chamber, and lay there.
Kings-2|4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite.
And when he had called her, she stood before him.
Kings-2|4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast
been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for thee?
wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And
she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
Kings-2|4:14 And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
Kings-2|4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she
stood in the door.
Kings-2|4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of
life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou] man of
God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
Kings-2|4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
Kings-2|4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he
went out to his father to the reapers.
Kings-2|4:19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said
to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
Kings-2|4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother,
he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died.
Kings-2|4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God,
and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
Kings-2|4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray
thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man
of God, and come again.
Kings-2|4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it is]
neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well.
Kings-2|4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive,
and go forward; slack not [thy] riding for me, except I bid thee.
Kings-2|4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel.
And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to
Gehazi his servant, Behold, [yonder is] that Shunammite:
Kings-2|4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, [Is
it] well with thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is it] well with the
child? And she answered, [It is] well.
Kings-2|4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught
him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of
God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and the LORD
hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.
Kings-2|4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not
say, Do not deceive me?
Kings-2|4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my
staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not;
and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the
face of the child.
Kings-2|4:30 And the mother of the child said, [As] the LORD liveth, and
[as] thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed
her.
Kings-2|4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon
the face of the child; but [there was] neither voice, nor hearing.
Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not
awaked.
Kings-2|4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child
was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
Kings-2|4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain,
and prayed unto the LORD.
Kings-2|4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth
upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands:
and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed
warm.
Kings-2|4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and
went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times,
and the child opened his eyes.
Kings-2|4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he
called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
Kings-2|4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself
to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
Kings-2|4:38 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.
Kings-2|4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found
a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and
shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not.
Kings-2|4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass,
as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou]
man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And they could not eat [thereof].
Kings-2|4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast [it] into the
pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was
no harm in the pot.
Kings-2|4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man
of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of
corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may
eat.
Kings-2|4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an
hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus
saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
Kings-2|4:44 So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left
[thereof], according to the word of the LORD.
Kings-2|5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had
given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he
was] a leper.
Kings-2|5:2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought
away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
Naaman's wife.
Kings-2|5:3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were]
with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his
leprosy.
Kings-2|5:4 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus
said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel.
Kings-2|5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a
letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten
talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of
raiment.
Kings-2|5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now
when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have [therewith] sent Naaman
my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
Kings-2|5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the
letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and to make
alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy?
wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against
me.
Kings-2|5:8 And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that
the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall
know that there is a prophet in Israel.
Kings-2|5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
Kings-2|5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash
in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
shalt be clean.
Kings-2|5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I
thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of
the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the
leper.
Kings-2|5:12 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better
than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he
turned and went away in a rage.
Kings-2|5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,
My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest
thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash,
and be clean?
Kings-2|5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in
Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again
like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Kings-2|5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company,
and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that [there
is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee,
take a blessing of thy servant.
Kings-2|5:16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I
will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he refused.
Kings-2|5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be
given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will
henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but
unto the LORD.
Kings-2|5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when my
master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on
my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in
the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Kings-2|5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him
a little way.
Kings-2|5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his
hands that which he brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I will run after
him, and take somewhat of him.
Kings-2|5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him]
running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said,
[Is] all well?
Kings-2|5:22 And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me, saying,
Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of
the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and
two changes of garments.
Kings-2|5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged
him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of
garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants; and they bare [them]
before him.
Kings-2|5:24 And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their
hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and they
departed.
Kings-2|5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha
said unto him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went
no whither.
Kings-2|5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart [with thee], when
the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to
receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and
sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
Kings-2|5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and
unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as
white] as snow.
Kings-2|6:1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now,
the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
Kings-2|6:2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every
man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he
answered, Go ye.
Kings-2|6:3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy
servants. And he answered, I will go.
Kings-2|6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut
down wood.
Kings-2|6:5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the
water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
Kings-2|6:6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him
the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron
did swim.
Kings-2|6:7 Therefore said he, Take [it] up to thee. And he put out his
hand, and took it.
Kings-2|6:8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took
counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place [shall be] my
camp.
Kings-2|6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying,
Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come
down.
Kings-2|6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of
God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor
twice.
Kings-2|6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled
for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not
show me which of us [is] for the king of Israel?
Kings-2|6:12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but
Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the
words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
Kings-2|6:13 And he said, Go and spy where he [is], that I may send and
fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in Dothan.
Kings-2|6:14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great
host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.
Kings-2|6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and
gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and
chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
Kings-2|6:16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are]
more than they that [be] with them.
Kings-2|6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his
eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and
he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire
round about Elisha.
Kings-2|6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the
LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he
smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
Kings-2|6:19 And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither
[is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye
seek. But he led them to Samaria.
Kings-2|6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that
Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these [men], that they may see. And the
LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, [they were] in the midst
of Samaria.
Kings-2|6:21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them,
My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?
Kings-2|6:22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite [them]: wouldest thou
smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow?
set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to
their master.
Kings-2|6:23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had
eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the
bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
Kings-2|6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
Kings-2|6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of
silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of
silver.
Kings-2|6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
Kings-2|6:27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I
help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
Kings-2|6:28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to
day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
Kings-2|6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her
on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her
son.
Kings-2|6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the
people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within upon his flesh.
Kings-2|6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
Kings-2|6:32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him;
and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to
him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to
take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and
hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind
him?
Kings-2|6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger
came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what
should I wait for the LORD any longer?
Kings-2|7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith
the LORD, To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be
sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of
Samaria.
Kings-2|7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man
of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might
this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat thereof.
Kings-2|7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the
gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
Kings-2|7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is]
in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also.
Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they
save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
Kings-2|7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the
Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of
Syria, behold, [there was] no man there.
Kings-2|7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host:
and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us
the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Kings-2|7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left
their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was],
and fled for their life.
Kings-2|7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the
camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence
silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid [it]; and came again, and
entered into another tent, and carried thence [also], and went and hid
[it].
Kings-2|7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day [is]
a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning
light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go
and tell the king's household.
Kings-2|7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and
they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold,
[there was] no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses
tied, and the tents as they [were].
Kings-2|7:11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the king's
house within.
Kings-2|7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know
that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide
themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall
catch them alive, and get into the city.
Kings-2|7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take,
I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city,
(behold, they [are] as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it:
behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites
that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
Kings-2|7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent
after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
Kings-2|7:15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way
[was] full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in
their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
Kings-2|7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two
measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
Kings-2|7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to
have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and
he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to
him.
Kings-2|7:18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the
king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine
flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of
Samaria:
Kings-2|7:19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now,
behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?
And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.
Kings-2|7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him
in the gate, and he died.
Kings-2|8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored
to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn
wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and
it shall also come upon the land seven years.
Kings-2|8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of
God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the
Philistines seven years.
Kings-2|8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto
the king for her house and for her land.
Kings-2|8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of
God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath
done.
Kings-2|8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had
restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And
Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son,
whom Elisha restored to life.
Kings-2|8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that [was] hers,
and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even
until now.
Kings-2|8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria
was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
Kings-2|8:8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand,
and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall
I recover of this disease?
Kings-2|8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him,
even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and
stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to
thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Kings-2|8:10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest
certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath showed me that he shall surely
die.
Kings-2|8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was
ashamed: and the man of God wept.
Kings-2|8:12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered,
Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel:
their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou
slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women
with child.
Kings-2|8:13 And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that he
should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me
that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.
Kings-2|8:14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who
said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me [that]
thou shouldest surely recover.
Kings-2|8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick
cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and spread [it] on his face, so that he
died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of
Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
Kings-2|8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and
he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
Kings-2|8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the
house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in
the sight of the LORD.
Kings-2|8:19 Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his
servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to his
children.
Kings-2|8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves.
Kings-2|8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him:
and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and
the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
Kings-2|8:22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this
day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
Kings-2|8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-2|8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel
did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
Kings-2|8:26 Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to
reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
Kings-2|8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil
in the sight of the LORD, as [did] the house of Ahab: for he [was] the son
in law of the house of Ahab.
Kings-2|8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against
Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
Kings-2|8:29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
Kings-2|9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the
prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in
thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
Kings-2|9:2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of
Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among
his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
Kings-2|9:3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and
say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open
the door, and flee, and tarry not.
Kings-2|9:4 So the young man, [even] the young man the prophet, went to
Ramothgilead.
Kings-2|9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host [were]
sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said,
Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
Kings-2|9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil
on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have
anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.
Kings-2|9:7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I
may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the
servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
Kings-2|9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off
from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and
left in Israel:
Kings-2|9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
Kings-2|9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel,
and [there shall be] none to bury [her]. And he opened the door, and fled.
Kings-2|9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and [one]
said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this mad [fellow] to thee? And
he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
Kings-2|9:12 And they said, [It is] false; tell us now. And he said,
Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed
thee king over Israel.
Kings-2|9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put
[it] under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying,
Jehu is king.
Kings-2|9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired
against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because
of Hazael king of Syria.
Kings-2|9:15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of
Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, [then] let none go forth [nor]
escape out of the city to go to tell [it] in Jezreel.
Kings-2|9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram
lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
Kings-2|9:17 And there stood a watchman 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 an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, [Is it]
peace?
Kings-2|9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with
peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger
came to them, but he cometh not again.
Kings-2|9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them,
and said, Thus saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu answered, What hast
thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
Kings-2|9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and
cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of
Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
Kings-2|9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready.
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his
chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of
Naboth the Jezreelite.
Kings-2|9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is
it] peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of
thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?
Kings-2|9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah,
[There is] treachery, O Ahaziah.
Kings-2|9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote
Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk
down in his chariot.
Kings-2|9:25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, [and] cast
him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how
that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid
this burden upon him;
Kings-2|9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the
blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat,
saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of
ground], according to the word of the LORD.
Kings-2|9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by
the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite
him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to Gur, which
[is] by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
Kings-2|9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and
buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
Kings-2|9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began
Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
Kings-2|9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it];
and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
Kings-2|9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had] Zimri
peace, who slew his master?
Kings-2|9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is]
on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs.
Kings-2|9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and
[some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he
trode her under foot.
Kings-2|9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said,
Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a king's
daughter.
Kings-2|9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her
than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
Kings-2|9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This
[is] the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of
Jezebel:
Kings-2|9:37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face
of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, This
[is] Jezebel.
Kings-2|10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote
letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders,
and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,
Kings-2|10:2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your
master's sons [are] with you, and [there are] with you chariots and horses,
a fenced city also, and armour;
Kings-2|10:3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons,
and set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Kings-2|10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two
kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
Kings-2|10:5 And he that [was] over the house, and he that [was] over
the city, the elders also, and the bringers up [of the children], sent to
Jehu, saying, We [are] thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid
us; we will not make any king: do thou [that which is] good in thine eyes.
Kings-2|10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If
ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of
the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this
time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great
men of the city, which brought them up.
Kings-2|10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that
they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in
baskets, and sent him [them] to Jezreel.
Kings-2|10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have
brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps
at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
Kings-2|10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and
stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] righteous: behold, I conspired
against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
Kings-2|10:10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of
the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab:
for the LORD hath done [that] which he spake by his servant Elijah.
Kings-2|10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in
Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until
he left him none remaining.
Kings-2|10:12 And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. [And] as
he [was] at the shearing house in the way,
Kings-2|10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and
said, Who [are] ye? And they answered, We [are] the brethren of Ahaziah;
and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the
queen.
Kings-2|10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive,
and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men;
neither left he any of them.
Kings-2|10:15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab
the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to
him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? And Jehonadab
answered, It is. If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his
hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
Kings-2|10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.
So they made him ride in his chariot.
Kings-2|10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained
unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of
the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
Kings-2|10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto
them, Ahab served Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.
Kings-2|10:19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all
his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great
sacrifice [to do] to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.
But Jehu did [it] in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the
worshippers of Baal.
Kings-2|10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And
they proclaimed [it].
Kings-2|10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers
of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came
into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to
another.
Kings-2|10:22 And he said unto him that [was] over the vestry, Bring
forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth
vestments.
Kings-2|10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the
house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that
there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the
worshippers of Baal only.
Kings-2|10:24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt
offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, [If] any of the
men whom I have brought into your hands escape, [he that letteth him go],
his life [shall be] for the life of him.
Kings-2|10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the
captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them
with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast [them] out,
and went to the city of the house of Baal.
Kings-2|10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of
Baal, and burned them.
Kings-2|10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the
house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
Kings-2|10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
Kings-2|10:29 Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden
calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
Kings-2|10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well
in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the
house of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine heart, thy children of
the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.
Kings-2|10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God
of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of
Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
Kings-2|10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and
Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
Kings-2|10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites,
and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which [is] by the river
Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
Kings-2|10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and
all his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
Kings-2|10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in
Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria
[was] twenty and eight years.
Kings-2|11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son
was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
Kings-2|11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's
sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in the
bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
Kings-2|11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years.
And Athaliah did reign over the land.
Kings-2|11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers
over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him
into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath
of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
Kings-2|11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye
shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be
keepers of the watch of the king's house;
Kings-2|11:6 And a third part [shall be] at the gate of Sur; and a third
part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house,
that it be not broken down.
Kings-2|11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even
they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
Kings-2|11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with
his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be
slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
Kings-2|11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all
[things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his
men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on
the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
Kings-2|11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king
David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD.
Kings-2|11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his
hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left
corner of the temple, [along] by the altar and the temple.
Kings-2|11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown
upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and
anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
Kings-2|11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard [and] of
the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
Kings-2|11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar,
as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and
all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah
rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
Kings-2|11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the
hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth
without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the
priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
Kings-2|11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the
which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
Kings-2|11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king
and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king
also and the people.
Kings-2|11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of
Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces
thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the
priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
Kings-2|11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains,
and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the
king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
Kings-2|11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.
Kings-2|11:21 Seven years old [was] Jehoash when he began to reign.
Kings-2|12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and
forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of
Beersheba.
Kings-2|12:2 And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Kings-2|12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Kings-2|12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the
dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the
money of every one that passeth [the account], the money that every man is
set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into
the house of the LORD,
Kings-2|12:5 Let the priests take [it] to them, every man of his
acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever
any breach shall be found.
Kings-2|12:6 But it was [so, that] in the three and twentieth year of
king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
Kings-2|12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the
[other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the
house? now therefore receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but
deliver it for the breaches of the house.
Kings-2|12:8 And the priests consented to receive no [more] money of the
people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
Kings-2|12:9 But Jehoiada 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 cometh
into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein
all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.
Kings-2|12:10 And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money
in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they
put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
Kings-2|12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of
them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD:
and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the
house of the LORD,
Kings-2|12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and
hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all
that was laid out for the house to repair [it].
Kings-2|12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD
bowls of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or
vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the
LORD:
Kings-2|12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith
the house of the LORD.
Kings-2|12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand
they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt
faithfully.
Kings-2|12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the
house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
Kings-2|12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against
Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
Kings-2|12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah,
had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold [that was]
found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house,
and sent [it] to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
Kings-2|12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-2|12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew
Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
Kings-2|12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of
Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah
king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in
Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
Kings-2|13:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to
sin; he departed not therefrom.
Kings-2|13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and
he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand
of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all [their] days.
Kings-2|13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto
him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria
oppressed them.
Kings-2|13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out
from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in
their tents, as beforetime.
Kings-2|13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house
of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained
the grove also in Samaria.)
Kings-2|13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty
horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria
had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
Kings-2|13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did,
and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
Kings-2|13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah
began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] sixteen years.
Kings-2|13:11 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD;
he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel sin: [but] he walked therein.
Kings-2|13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did,
and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Kings-2|13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon
his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
Kings-2|13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he
died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his
face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the
horsemen thereof.
Kings-2|13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took
unto him bow and arrows.
Kings-2|13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the
bow. And he put his hand [upon it]: and Elisha put his hands upon the
king's hands.
Kings-2|13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened [it].
Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S
deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite
the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].
Kings-2|13:18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And he
said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice,
and stayed.
Kings-2|13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria
till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but]
thrice.
Kings-2|13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the
Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
Kings-2|13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that,
behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the
sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones
of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Kings-2|13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of
Jehoahaz.
Kings-2|13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on
them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his
presence as yet.
Kings-2|13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned
in his stead.
Kings-2|13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand
of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the
hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and
recovered the cities of Israel.
Kings-2|14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel
reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
Kings-2|14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign,
and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
Kings-2|14:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his
father did.
Kings-2|14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the
people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
Kings-2|14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed
in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
Kings-2|14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according
unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the
LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man
shall be put to death for his own sin.
Kings-2|14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and
took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
Kings-2|14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of
Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another
in the face.
Kings-2|14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of
Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the cedar that
[was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there
passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Kings-2|14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted
thee up: glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle
to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?
Kings-2|14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of
Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the
face at Bethshemesh, which [belongeth] to Judah.
Kings-2|14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they
fled every man to their tents.
Kings-2|14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the
son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem,
and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the
corner gate, four hundred cubits.
Kings-2|14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels
that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
Kings-2|14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his
might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, [are] they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Kings-2|14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in
Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his
stead.
Kings-2|14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
Kings-2|14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, [are] they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-2|14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and
he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
Kings-2|14:20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
Kings-2|14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was]
sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Kings-2|14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the
king slept with his fathers.
Kings-2|14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of
Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria,
[and reigned] forty and one years.
Kings-2|14:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin.
Kings-2|14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of
Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of
Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of Gathhepher.
Kings-2|14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was]
very bitter: for [there was] not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper
for Israel.
Kings-2|14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of
Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son
of Joash.
Kings-2|14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did,
and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,
[which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Kings-2|14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, [even] with the kings
of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel
began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
Kings-2|15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
Kings-2|15:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
Kings-2|15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
Kings-2|15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto
the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's
son [was] over the house, judging the people of the land.
Kings-2|15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-2|15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with
his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
Kings-2|15:9 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
Kings-2|15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and
smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they [are]
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Kings-2|15:12 This [was] the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu,
saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth
[generation]. And so it came to pass.
Kings-2|15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and
thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in
Samaria.
Kings-2|15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came
to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him,
and reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy
which he made, behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel.
Kings-2|15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein,
and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him],
therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he
ripped up.
Kings-2|15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah
began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, [and reigned] ten years
in Samaria.
Kings-2|15:18 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
who made Israel to sin.
Kings-2|15:19 [And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and
Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with
him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
Kings-2|15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, [even] of all the
mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the
king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there
in the land.
Kings-2|15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
Kings-2|15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son
reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the
son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] two
years.
Kings-2|15:24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin.
Kings-2|15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired
against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house,
with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he
killed him, and reigned in his room.
Kings-2|15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did,
behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
Kings-2|15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and
reigned] twenty years.
Kings-2|15:28 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD:
he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin.
Kings-2|15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser
king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and
Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and
carried them captive to Assyria.
Kings-2|15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah
the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead,
in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
Kings-2|15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did,
behold, they [are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel.
Kings-2|15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of
Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
Kings-2|15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign,
and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was]
Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
Kings-2|15:34 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the
LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
Kings-2|15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher
gate of the house of the LORD.
Kings-2|15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-2|15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
Kings-2|15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his
stead.
Kings-2|16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz
the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
Kings-2|16:2 Twenty years old [was] Ahaz when he began to reign, and
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not [that which was] right in
the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
Kings-2|16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and
made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the
heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
Kings-2|16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and
on the hills, and under every green tree.
Kings-2|16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of
Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not
overcome [him].
Kings-2|16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria,
and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt
there unto this day.
Kings-2|16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the
hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which
rise up against me.
Kings-2|16:8 And Ahaz 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 [it
for] a present to the king of Assyria.
Kings-2|16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of]
it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
Kings-2|16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria, and saw an altar that [was] at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to
Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it,
according to all the workmanship thereof.
Kings-2|16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that
king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against
king Ahaz came from Damascus.
Kings-2|16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the
altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
Kings-2|16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and
poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings,
upon the altar.
Kings-2|16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which [was] before
the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the
house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
Kings-2|16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon
the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat
offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the
burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and
their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt
offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be
for me to inquire [by].
Kings-2|16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded.
Kings-2|16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen
oxen that [were] under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
Kings-2|16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the
house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD
for the king of Assyria.
Kings-2|16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, [are] they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Kings-2|16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Kings-2|17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the
son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
Kings-2|17:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD,
but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
Kings-2|17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea
became his servant, and gave him presents.
Kings-2|17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he
had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present 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.
Kings-2|17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,
and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Kings-2|17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and
in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Kings-2|17:7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of
Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other
gods,
Kings-2|17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel,
which they had made.
Kings-2|17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that
[were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high
places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city.
Kings-2|17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill,
and under every green tree:
Kings-2|17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as
[did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought
wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
Kings-2|17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto
them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Kings-2|17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah,
by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil
ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law
which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the
prophets.
Kings-2|17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their
necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD
their God.
Kings-2|17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he
made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against
them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen
that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them,
that they should not do like them.
Kings-2|17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God,
and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Kings-2|17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Kings-2|17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed
them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Kings-2|17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their
God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Kings-2|17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had
cast them out of his sight.
Kings-2|17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made
Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following
the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
Kings-2|17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
Kings-2|17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had
said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of
their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Kings-2|17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and
from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed
[them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they
possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Kings-2|17:25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there,
[that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them,
which slew [some] of them.
Kings-2|17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know
not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among
them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the
God of the land.
Kings-2|17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither
one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell
there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
Kings-2|17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from
Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the
LORD.
Kings-2|17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put
[them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,
every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Kings-2|17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of
Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Kings-2|17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites
burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of
Sepharvaim.
Kings-2|17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the
lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the
houses of the high places.
Kings-2|17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the
manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
Kings-2|17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear
not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the
children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
Kings-2|17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to them:
Kings-2|17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt
with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall
ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
Kings-2|17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the
commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore;
and ye shall not fear other gods.
Kings-2|17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not
forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
Kings-2|17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver
you out of the hand of all your enemies.
Kings-2|17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner.
Kings-2|17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven
images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their
fathers, so do they unto this day.
Kings-2|18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah
king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to
reign.
Kings-2|18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also
[was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
Kings-2|18:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD,
according to all that David his father did.
Kings-2|18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut
down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had
made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it:
and he called it Nehushtan.
Kings-2|18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was
none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him.
Kings-2|18:6 For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from following
him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
Kings-2|18:7 And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered whithersoever
he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him
not.
Kings-2|18:8 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Kings-2|18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah,
which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that]
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
Kings-2|18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the
sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken.
Kings-2|18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto
Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes:
Kings-2|18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God,
but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
Kings-2|18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah,
and took them.
Kings-2|18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to
Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest
on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of
Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
Kings-2|18:15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in
the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
Kings-2|18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the
doors of the temple of the LORD, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king
of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Kings-2|18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against
Jerusalem. And they went up a
